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Shared visual spaces in computer-mediated communication
Susan Fussell has been a system scientist in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon since 1997 working with Jane Siegel and Robert Kraut. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Columbia University in 1990. Her previous positions include member of technical staff in the Interpersonal Communications Group at Bellcore and an assistant professorship in the Psychology Department at Mississippi State University. Dr.
Celebrating 50 Years of Video Calling
Modeling Users with Disabilities Interacting with Computers Through Assistive Technology
Richard Simpson, PhD, ATP, received a BS in Computer Science from Virginia Tech in 1992. At the University of Michigan he earned an MS in Bioengineering in 1994, an MS in Computer Science and Engineering in 1995, and a PhD in Bioengineering in 1997. Dr. Simpson was certified as an Assistive Technology Practitioner in 1997. He is an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh, in the Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology.
HCII Ph.D. Thesis Proposal: Megan Hofmann, "The GIST of Medical Making: A Framework For Producing Clinical CAD Tools with Generative Design"
Interactive Machine Learning: Leveraging Human Intelligence
Dan R. Olsen Jr. is a Professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University. He was formerly the director of CMU’s HCI Institute and founding editor of ACM’s Transactions on Computer Human Interaction (TOCHI). For the last 25 years he has been working on software architectures and techniques to support the construction of user interfaces. His most recent work is in human-robot interaction and in architectures that integrate machine learning into the user interface.
Undergraduate Information Session
Field Trial Approach for Communication Robots
Takayuki Kanda is a Senior Research Scientist at ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan. He received his B. Eng, M. Eng, and Ph. D. degrees in computer science from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1998, 2000, and 2003, respectively. He is one of the starting members of Communication Robots project at ATR. He has developed a communication robot, Robovie, and applied it in daily situations, such as peer-tutor at elementary school and a museum exhibit guide.
Robotics Thesis Defense
Lecture vs. Online Course Delivery: Do Lectures Help?
Richard Scheines is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon, as a well as a member of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and the Center for Automated Learning and Discovery. His primary Research focus is on the relations between causal knowledge and statistical data, but he has been active in educational computing since the late 1980s, when he developed an intelligent tutor for Formal Logic.
Master of Computational Data Science: MCDS Capstone Poster Sessions
The Internet in Everyday Life
Professor Barry Wellman studies networks: community, communication, computer, and social. His research examines virtual community, the virtual workplace, social support, community, kinship, friendship, and social network theory and methods. Based at the University of Toronto, he directs the NetLab, teaches at the Department of Sociology, does research at the Centre for Urban and Community Studies, the Knowledge Media Design Institute, and the Bell University Laboratories’ Collaborative Environment Lab, and is a cross-appointed member of the Faculty of Information Studies.
Computer Science Speaking Skills Talk
MILLEE: Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies
Language Technologies Ph.D. Thesis Defense
Use of an Electronic Referral System to Improve the Outpatient Primary Care–Specialty Care Interface
Susan Straus is a Behavioral Scientist at RAND and Adjunct Associate Professor in the HCII. Dr. Straus’s research addresses the social impacts of information and communication technologies. Specific research interests include applications of information technology in health care settings and adoption and use of collaborative technologies for distributed teams.
Global Clean Energy Action Forum
Experts at Being Seen as Experts: Knowledge Management Technology as a Stage for Strategic Self-Presentation
Paul Leonardi (Ph.D. Stanford University) is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, and (by courtesy) Management and Organizations at Northwestern University where he holds the Breed Junior Chair in Design.
HCII Seminar Series - Pedro Lopes
Pedro Lopes is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Chicago. Pedro focuses on integrating computer interfaces with the human body—exploring the interface paradigm that supersedes wearable computing. Some of these new integrated-devices include: muscle stimulation wearable that allows users to manipulate tools they have never seen before or that accelerate their reaction time, or a device that leverages the sense of smell to create an illusion of temperature.
Expressive Electronics: Sketching, Sewing & Sharing
Leah Buechley is an Assistant Professor at the MIT Media Lab where she directs the High-Low Tech research group. The High-Low Tech group explores the integration of high and low technology from cultural, material, and practical perspectives, with the goal of engaging diverse groups of people in developing their own technologies. She is a well-known expert in the field of electronic textiles (e-textiles), and her work in this area includes developing the LilyPad Arduino toolkit.
HCII Seminar Series - Narges Mahyar
Narges Mahyar is an Assistant Professor in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Currently she holds a position as a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University. Narges’s research falls at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction, Information Visualization, Social Computing, and Design. She designs, develops, and evaluates novel social computing and visualization techniques that help people explore, understand, and make data-informed decisions.