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HCII Seminar Series - Carol J. Smith
Carol J. Smith leads research on responsible artificial intelligence (RAI) and human-machine teaming for the CMU Software Engineering Institute in the AI Division, where she is a Senior Research Scientist. Carol is also an Adjunct Instructor for the CMU HCII teaching graduate and undergraduate courses. Carol has been leading UX research to improve human experiences across industries for over 20 years and improving AI systems since 2015. She is the Information Architecture Conference (IAC) 2023 Co-Chair, volunteers for UXPA and IEEE, and is an ACM Distinguished Speaker.
The Social Life of Spacecraft: Organization and Collaboration on Robotic Spacecraft Teams
Janet Vertesi is a sociologist of science and technology at Princeton University, where she is Link-Cotsen Fellow at the Society of Fellows and a lecturer in the Sociology Department. Her research focuses on the complex intersections between people, science, and technological systems: especially the role of digital images in science, the organization and coordination of distributed robotic spacecraft teams, transnational technologies, and critical approaches to HCI. Vertesi holds a Ph.D.
HCII Seminar Series - Vernelle Noel
Vernelle A. A. Noel, Ph.D. is the Lucian and Rita Caste Assistant Professor in Architecture and Urban Design at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture. She is a computational design scholar, architect, artist, and Director of the Situated Computation + Design Lab. She investigates traditional and digital practices, and their intersections with society.
Interactive Learning: Combining Machine Learning Strategies with Humans in the Loop
Burr Settles is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He received a PhD in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2008, with additional studies in Linguistics and Biology. His current research focuses on interactive machine learning that resembles a “dialogue” between computers and humans, with applications in natural language processing, biology, and social computing. He also runs the website FAWM.ORG, prefers sandals to shoes, and plays guitar in the Pittsburgh pop band Delicious Pastries.
Thesis Proposal: Kerry Chang
Mini-5 Course Drop Deadline to Receive Tuition Adjustment
Semester & Mini-4 Course Withdrawal Grade Deadline
Session Two Last Day of Classes
Semester Course Add Deadline
Myo meetup with Thalmic Labs
METALS Professional Talk Series: Steve Ritter
BHCI Alumni Event - CHI 2016
CANCELED: Tracking Behavioral Symptoms of Mental Health and Delivering Personalized Interventions Using Mobile and Wearable Devices
Tanzeem Choudhury is an associate professor in Computing and Information Sciences at Cornell University and a co-founder of HealthRhythms. At Cornell, she directs the People-Aware Computing group, which works on inventing the future of technology-assisted wellbeing. Tanzeem received her PhD from the Media Laboratory at MIT. Tanzeem was awarded the MIT Technology Review TR35 award, NSF CAREER award and a TED Fellowship. Follow the group's work on twitter @pac_cornell
HHI Board Game Meetup
HCII PhD Thesis Proposal: Amy Shannon Cook, "Using Interactive Learning Activities to Address Challenges of Peer Feedback Systems"
Thesis Proposal: Anhong Guo, "Human-AI Systems for Visual Information Access"
Understanding Human Behavior for Better Assistive Robots
Henny Admoni is an Assistant Professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, with a courtesy appointment in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute. At CMU, she leads the Human And Robot Partners (HARP) Lab. Dr. Admoni studies how to develop intelligent robots that can assist and collaborate with humans on complex tasks like preparing a meal. She is most interested in how natural human communication, like where someone is looking, can reveal underlying human intentions and can be used to improve human-robot interactions. Dr.
Taking Email To Task
Dr. Ian Smith is a member of the research staff at PARC Incorporated. His work focuses on the integration of software development tools and practices with ethnographic techniques in user interface development. He has published numerous papers in conferences such as the ACM symposium on user interface software, ACM conference on computer supported cooperative work, and the ACM conference on human-computer interaction. He currently has eleven United States patents pending. In 1998, he was granted a Ph. D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.
Seminar: Anne Marie Piper
Anne Marie Piper is an Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. Her research in human-computer interaction focuses on designing and studying new technologies to support communication, social interaction, and learning for people across the lifespan. Her research is funded through four NSF awards, including a CAREER award, and has been recognized with numerous Best Paper Awards and Nominations at ACM CHI, CSCW, DIS, and ASSETS. She was named a U.S.
Personas, Goals, and Emotional Design
Robert Reimann has spent the last 15 years pushing the boundaries of digital products as a designer, writer, lecturer, manager, and consultant. He has led dozens of interaction design projects in domains including e-commerce, desktop productivity, authoring environments, medical and scientific instrumentation, kiosks, information systems, and consumer electronics, for startups and Fortune 500 companies alike. As Director of Design R&D at Cooper, Robert helped develop and refine the interaction design methodologies described in About Face 2.0, co-authored with Alan Cooper.