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Thesis Defense: Gabriela Marcu
Mini-5 Faculty Course Evaluations
Semester & Mini-4 Last Day of Classes
Session One Last Day of Classes
HCII PhD Communication Requirement Talks
HCII Seminar Series: Carl DiSalvo
Carl DiSalvo is an Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. At Georgia Tech he directs the Public Design Workshop: a design research studio that explores socially-engaged design practices and civic media. He is also the co-director of the Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing. DiSalvo’s work explores and analyzes the social and political qualities of design.
THESIS DEFENSE: Yanjin Long
"Primordial", Ecological Design and the Nature of Things
Mickey McManus is a research fellow at Autodesk in the Office of the CTO, and Principal & Chairman of the board at MAYA Design, a design consultancy and innovation lab. He's a pioneer in the fields of pervasive computing, collaborative innovation, human-centered design and education.
The Challenges and Opportunities for Real-time Ridesharing Services to Address Unemployment Barriers Among Low-Resourced Populations
Tawanna is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Information and holds a courtesy appointment with the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. Tawanna received her Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) from Carnegie Mellon University.
HCII PhD Thesis Defense: Kelly Rivers
HCII PhD Thesis Defense: Brandon Taylor
MHCI Open House (invite only)
The MAGIC of Semantic IxD
Daniel Rosenberg is the 2019 recipient of the SigCHI Lifetime Practice Award for his combination of technical and leadership contributions to the field over the past 40+ years.
Currently, he is a UX consultant and an adjunct professor of HCI at San Jose State University. He serves on the advisory board of the Interaction Design Foundation and edits the “Business of UX” Forum in ACM Interactions magazine.
The Structure of Paintings
Professor Leyton received a BS degree in Mathematics from Warwick University (England), and a PhD in Psychology from UC Berkeley. He was a recipient of a Presidential Young Investigator Award. His process-grammar for describing shape history has been used in over 20 scientific disciplines from chemical engineering to meteorology. He is president of the International Society for Mathematical and Computational Aesthetics. Currently he is involved in ISO work—international standardization in the aerospace and mechanical engineering industry—as well as research in control systems in robots.
Seminar: Jessica Hullman
Jessica Hullman is an Associate Professor of Computer Science with a joint appointment in the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Her research looks at how to design, evaluate, coordinate, and think about representations of data for amplifying cognition and decision making. She co-directs the Midwest Uncertainty Collective, a lab devoted to better representations, evaluations, and theory around how to communicate uncertainty in data, with Matt Kay.
The Role of Design in Research?
Tracee Wolf is a designer with the Social Computing Group at IBM Research in Hawthorne, NY. She currently works with her group to create socio-technical solutions in interpersonal and collaboration technologies. Her degrees in Applied Design and Visual Communication (B.S.) and Architecture (Masters) have provided a basis not only for user-empathy and user-advocacy, but also solutions that acknowledge human needs and habits.
HCII Seminar Series - Gabriela Marcu
Gabriela Marcu is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information. She studies the delivery of behavioral health services and the use of digital health interventions. Her expertise is in designing and evaluating use of systems for health through qualitative methods, participatory design, community-based approaches, and field studies.
Taking the Edge Off: Humanizing Technology for an Engineering Giant
Daniel Gloyd holds a Masters of Design degree in Interaction Design from Carnegie Mellon University. He currently works for Samsung Telecommunications America at the LA Design Lab in Los Angeles and is founder of the LA Lab’s User Interface Design Group. Prior to Samsung, Daniel worked in the medical industry and has collaborated with Fortune 500 companies such as General Motors, IBM, and Compaq to study the potential for creating effective communication in today’s complex information environments. Daniel is also a painter and frequently exhibits his art work.
Undergraduate HCII Admissions Opens Today
Navigation in Electronic Environments
Stephen Hirtle is Professor and Chair of the Department of Information Science and Telecommunications at the University of Pittsburgh, with joint appointments in the Department of Psychology and Intelligent Systems Program. He received a his Ph.D. from University of Michigan in Mathematical Psychology in 1982. He is the founding co-editor of Spatial Cognition and Computation.