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Thesis Defense: James Pierce

"Working by Not Quite Working: Designing Resistant Interactive Proposals, Prototypes, and Products" Thesis Committee Eric...

Embodied Empathic Agents - Just What Tutoring Systems Need?

Ruth Aylett

Professor of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

Embodied empathic agents are characters that, by their actions and behaviours, are able to show...

PhD Thesis Proposal: Brandon Taylor, "Towards the Automatic Translation of American Sign Language"

Brandon Taylor

PhD candidate, HCII

Committee: Dan Siewiorek, Chair (HCII) Anind Dey, (HCII) Carolyn Rose (HCII) Roberta Klatzky (HCII) Asim...

Blindspot Detection, an Unconscious Bias Workshop

Geoff Kaufman and Queenie Kravitz

Attendance is open to everyone.

HCI Behind the Hospital Doors: EHR Challenges and Human Machine-Learning Interaction

Susan Regli

Human Factors Scientist, University of Pennsylvania Health System

This talk will address two aspects of hospital systems that sorely need attention from the...

HCII & ISR Summer REU Poster Presentations

For ten weeks this summer, 40+ undergraduates have been working with HCII faculty and students...

HCII Thesis Proposal: "Personal 3D Printing: Material Techniques and Processes for Human Interaction and Use"

Michael Rivera

Committee: Scott E. Hudson (HCII), Chair Lining Yao (HCII) Jeffrey P. Bigham (HCII) Stefanie Mueller...

Learning and Collaboration across Generations in a Community

Mary Beth Rosson

Professor, Information Sciences & Technology, Pennsylvania State University

Community networks and information technology bring many new opportunities for learning, interaction, and collaboration into...

Seminar: Oliver Haimson

Oliver Haimson

Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, School of Information

"Designing Trans Technology" Transgender and nonbinary people face substantial challenges in the world, ranging from...

design: a computational perspective from architecture

Mark D Gross

Professor, School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University

Design is central to our lives, yet our ways of doing it remain primitive and...

HCII PhD Thesis Proposal: Yasmine Kotturi

Yasmine Kotturi

"(Co-)Designing an Inclusive Future of Work" Committee: Chinmay Kulkarni (chair), Carnegie Mellon University Sarah Fox...

The Leap to Efficiency: The Impacts of Peer Observation

S. Camille Peres

Assistant Professor, Psychology Department, University of Houston

Although previous research shows that software is often used inefficiently, little is known about the...

Interctive Data Exploration with Diamond

Mahadev Satyanarayanan

Carnegie Group Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

How does a domain expert discover something relevant to an urgent task in a large...

SCS DEI Seminar: Data-Driven Diversity with Kody Manke and Kevin Jarbo

Kody Manke, Psychology Department and Kevin Jarbo, Social and Decision Sciences

Both are CMU Faculty

The Internet in School: Problems and Possibilities

Janet Ward Schofield

Psychology Department and Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh

This presentation reports the results of a wide ranging five-year study of a project designed...

Computational Biology Thesis Defense

MARIA KORSHUNOVA

Ph.D. Candidate
Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology
Department of Computational Biology
Carnegie Mellon University

This thesis describes novel deep generative neural networks and their applications for the de-novo design...

Cell Phone Experiment: Speech, Complexity, and Driving

Sara Kiesler and Susan Fussell

Professor and Systems Scientist, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Cell phones offer vast possibilities for obtaining and using information while mobile, but present major...

Robotics Ph.D. Speaking Qualifier

SUDEEP DASARI

Ph.D. Student
Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

In this talk I'll describe how recent advances in neural rendering and novel view synthesis...

Urban Deployment of Bluetooth

Vassilis Kostakos

Assistant Professor, LabUSE, Department of Mathematics and Engineering, University of Madeira

As part of the Cityware project, we have spent the last 24 months exploring the...

IDeaS Seminar

EMERSON T. BROOKING

Senior Fellow
Digital Forensic Research Lab of the Atlantic Council

As public awareness of foreign influence operations has grown, so have efforts to describe and...