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Bi-directional time travel and other explorations at IBM
Bonnie E. John is a Professor in the HCI Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. A founding member of the HCII, her raison d'être is to “beat psychology into a shape that engineers can use.” To that end, she produces theories and frameworks to predict human performance on computer-based systems before they are built and embodies these in tools that UI designers and software engineers can easily learn and use in their development process.
HCII PhD Fall 2022 Evaluation Meeting (Faculty only)
Media, Meaning and Computation: Expressive Intelligence and the Future of Playable Media
Dr. Mateas is recognized internationally as a leader in AI-based interactive storytelling. He is currently a faculty member in the Computer Science department at UC Santa Cruz, where he holds the MacArthur Endowed Chair. He founded and co-directs the Expressive Intelligence Studio, one of the largest technical game research groups in the world, and is also the founding director of the Center for Games and Playable Media at UC Santa Cruz.
HCII Ph.D. Thesis Proposal: Alex Cabrera
Mobilizing Support through Facebook
Cliff Lampe is an Associate Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Previously, he was also in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University. In his research, he focuses on how social and technical systems interact to enable people to collaborate, particularly around collective action efforts. In his research, he has worked with sites like Slashdot, Wilkipedia, Everything2, SourceForge and Facebook. In addition, he has done work creating online communities in coordination with public sector groups.
HCII Ph.D. Thesis Proposal: Jaemarie Solyst
Thesis Proposal: Ruogu Kang
Enabling Creativity Through Better Tools for Designers and Developers
Joel Brandt is a Senior Research Scientist and Engineering Manager at Adobe Research. He is a Human-Computer Interaction researcher who studies how improved tools can help designers and developers be more creative and productive. His research has informed the design of numerous widely used tools, including Generator for Adobe Photoshop (http://bit.ly/psgenerator) and the Brackets code editor (http://brackets.io). Joel completed his Ph.D. in the Human-Computer Interaction Group at Stanford University in 2010.
THESIS PROPOSAL: Adrian de Freitas
Mini-3 Course Grade Audit Option Deadline
Session Two Final Grades Due by 4 p.m.
Mini-1 Last Day of Classes
Mini-1 Faculty Course Evaluations
Leading the Startup UX
Uday Gajendar is a proven design leader focused on new product innovation & guiding start-ups on UX fundamentals. Uday has 15 years of versatile expertise at Frogdesign, Citrix, Peel, Netflix, Adobe, CloudPhysics and others, spanning enterprise to consumer, web to mobile domains. He also regularly writes for ACM Interactions and routinely speaks worldwide on design topics at SXSW, UX Australia, IxDA, and other venues. You can read Uday’s thoughts on design at his blog, www.ghostinthepixel.com.
Ph.D. Communication Requirement Talks
Crowdsourcing Lunch Seminar: Michael Lee
How to Design with Openness: Shaping a Design Approach for Open and Growing Systems
Joep Frens is an assistant professor at Eindhoven University of Technology. His research focuses on the question of ‘how to design for open and growing systems’. He teaches courses on (interaction) design on all academic levels and advises a number of PhD students. In the academic year of 2014-2015 he held the Nierenberg Chair of Design at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Design.
Human+AI Collaboration: Improving the FATE of High Stakes Decision Making
Dr. Kori Inkpen is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and Manager of the Social Technologies Research Group. Over the years her work has focused on how video is changing the way we engage and communicate with others, and the potential it offers to transform the way we interact with friends, families, colleagues, and strangers. Her research interests are in the fields of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Human-Computer Interaction and exploring next generation computing to connect people in new ways.
“Knowledge Embodied in Artifacts”: A Problem in Design Epistemology
Jeffrey Bardzell is a Professor of Informatics and Director of the HCI/Design program in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University--Bloomington. His research contributes to design theory and investigations of social innovation, with emphases on critical design, design criticism, creativity and innovation, and intimate experiences.