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View our recent news stories below. Looking for an upcoming event? Visit our website calendar to view our public events, including our weekly Seminar Series on Friday afternoons.

May

25

12AM

Memorial Day; No Classes
Mar

9- 13

12:00am

Spring Break; No Classes
Sep

29

4:00pm

HCII Z-Axis Series: Tracy Fullerton

GHC 6115
Oct

14- 16

12:00am

No Undergraduate Mini-1 Course Meetings (Reading Period)
Aug

25

1:15pm

HCII PhD Communication Requirement talks- see details

1:15-1:45 p.m.- Adrian de Freitas, “Impromptu: Supporting Just in Time Applications Through Context Awareness” 1:45-2:15...
NSH 3305
Feb

10

6:00pm

MHCI UX Portfolio Night

This is an MHCI portfolio workshop event. Industry experts from a variety of UX/UI/Technical roles...
300 South Craig St. | Room 172
Jan

20

1:30pm

Aesthetics of Intelligence: Designing User Experience for Systems of Smart Things

Lin-Lin Chen

Professor, Industrial and Commercial Design, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

The vision of a smart environment, where invisible technologies seamlessly support people’s daily activities, is...
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)
May

25

1PM

HCII PhD Thesis Defense: Dan Tasse

Dan Tasse

HCII PhD candidate

" How Geotagged Social Media Can Inform Modern Travelers" Thesis committee: Jason I. Hong (Chair)...
Newell-Simon Hall 3305
Dec

8

1:30pm

Deep Learning for Understanding Driver Behavior in 275,000 Miles of Semi-Autonomous Driving Data

Lex Fridman

Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Today, and possibly for a long time to come, the full driving task is too...
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)
Mar

26

1:30 PM

Thesis Defense: Amy Cook

Amy Shannon Cook

HCII PhD Thesis Defense: Amy Cook Title: Using Interactive Learning Activities to Address Challenges of...
Gates-Hillman Center 4405
Dec

2

1:30pm

HCII Thesis Proposal: Julian Andres Ramos Rojas, "The Personalization of Mobile Health Interventions"

Thesis Committee: Anind K. Dey (Co-Chair), Information School, University of Washington Mayank Goel (Co-chair), Human-Computer...
Newell-Simon Hall 3305
Nov

28

4:25 AM

In Vivo Interaction: Towards Personal Bioinformatics

Yang Cai

Systems Scientist, Human Computer Interaction Institute and Research Fellow at Studio for Creative Inquiry, CFA.

The FDA newly approved capsule camera started a brand new era of personal bioinformatics about...
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)
Oct

9

1:30pm

Seminar: Niloufar Salehi

Niloufar Salehi

Assistant Professor, School of Information, UC Berkeley

"From content moderation to school assignment: What do theories of justice teach us about design?"...
Seminar will be presented via Zoom
Nov

28

4:25 AM

In Search of Text Writing Methods for Off Desktop Computing: ATOMIK and SHARK

Shumin Zhai

Research Staff Member, IBM Almaden Research Center

It is generally recognized that todays frontier of HCI research lies beyond the traditional desktop...
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)
Mar

5

5:00pm

Undergraduate Programs Afternoon Tea Chat

The Human-Computer Interaction Institute will be accepting applications for our Additional Major in Interdisciplinary HCI...
This is a virtual event.
Nov

28

4:25 AM

Recommenders for Commerce, Content, and Community

John Riedl

Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota

Recommender systems are ubiquitous on the Internet for helping sell products—everything from automobiles to zebras...
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)
Dec

2

4:30pm

HCII Game Playtesting

Newell-Simon Hall 4305
Nov

28

4:25 AM

Designing for Rich Interaction: Integrating Form, Interaction, and Function

Joep Frens

Assistant Professor, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

The subject of the lecture is human-product interaction, particularly interaction with consumer products. With the...
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)
Apr

12

5:00pm

SCS4ALL Preregistration Event

For SCS Undergraduates

Curious about what classes to take next semester? Think a class sounds cool but you...
In Person
Nov

28

4:25 AM

Analysts Workbench—A CAD-like GUI for textual search and filter creation

Tom Neuendorffer

Director of Human-Computer Interaction, Clairvoyance

This talk will focus on work undertaken at Claritech (now Clairvoyance) Corporation to create a...
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)

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