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HCII Ph.D. Thesis Proposal: Hyeonsu Kang (Remote)
Engaging with Users on Public Social Media
Jeffrey Nichols is a Research Staff Member and Manager of the Social Media and Crowd Research group at IBM Research - Almaden. He leads research efforts on crowdsourcing, social media analysis and social engagement. He joined IBM in 2006 after receiving his Ph.D. from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science. He has worked in the areas of mobile computing, automated design, and end-user programming.
HCII Ph.D. Thesis Proposal: Jason Wu
Dream Worlds: Imagining the Worlds of Walden and The Night Journey
Tracy is an experimental game designer and Chair of the Interactive Media Division at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where she directs the Game Innovation Lab. This design research center has produced several influential independent games, including Cloud, flOw, Darfur is Dying, The Misadventures of P.B.
When New Technology Is Old: Organizing Surgery in the Face of Legacy Robotic Surgical Systems
I am a fifth year doctoral student at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and I study real-world use of robotics in skilled, collective work. I ask questions like: How are robots actually involved in work? What can we do with them that we couldn't before? What might we lose? What does all this mean for organizations? Before coming to MIT for my doctorate, I spent 9 years as a principal consultant in a firm of organizational psychologists. We specialized in helping teams discuss touchy topics productively.
THESIS DEFENSE: Haiyi Zhu
Mini-3 Final Grades Due by 4 p.m.
Session One Classes Begin
Makeup Final Examinations
Mini-1 Course Add Deadline
HCII Seminar Series: Steven Dow
Steven P. Dow is an Assistant Professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and will soon be an Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at UC San Diego, where he will be thinking fondly of CMU. His research interests include human-computer interaction, social computing, design education, and creativity-support tools. Steven has received numerous grants from the National Science Foundation, including a CAREER Award in 2015.
Social Capital as a Concept in Human-Computer Interaction - From Bowling Together to Friendsourcing
Cliff Lampe is an Associate Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. His research examines the positive outcomes of interaction in online communities, ranging from development of interpersonal relationships, to nonprofit collective action, to new forms of civic engagement. His work on Facebook and social capital has been heavily cited in a range of disciplines. Dr. Lampe serves as the Vice President of Publications for SIGCHI, the Technical Program Chair for CHI2017, and the Steering Committee Chair for the CSCW community.
Crowdsourcing Lunch Seminar: Lydia Chilton
Prototyping a More Positive Future
Sophia Brueckner, born in Detroit, MI, is an artist, designer, and engineer. Inseparable from computers since the age of two, she believes she is a cyborg. She received her Sc.B. in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from Brown University. As a software engineer at Google, she designed and implemented products used by tens of millions and later on experimental projects within Google Research.
User, Agent, Subject, Spy: Information Systems for Human Flourishing
Dr. Michael Ekstrand is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Boise State University, where he co-directs the People and Information Research Team (PIReT, pronounced ‘pirate’). He studies human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence, working to ensure information access systems — particularly recommender systems — are good for the people they affect.
City Complex
Violet Whitney is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation where she teaches urban data analytics and physical computing. At Sidewalk Labs she leads the Generative Design product at Sidewalk Labs as a Product Manager. There she’s developing tools to facilitate collective decision making with expert and non-experts alike.
Ph.D. Thesis Defense, "Co-designing family-centered literacy technology in rural Côte d’Ivoire"
Visual support for group work with geospatial information: Taking a cognitive-semiotic approach
Dr. Alan M. MacEachren is Professor of Geography and Director of the GeoVISTA Center (www.GeoVISTA.psu.edu) at Pennsylvania State University. He received a PhD from University of Kansas in 1979 and held faculty positions at Virginia Tech and the University of Colorado before joining Penn State in 1985. Dr. MacEachren is currently chair of the International Cartographic Associations Commission on Visualization and Virtual Environments.
Building Anti-Racist Futures at CMU HCII Event
The Art of Game Design
Jesse Schell is on the faculty of the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University, where he teaches classes in Game Design, and leads several projects, including Hazmat: Hotzone, an anti-terror team training game for the nation’s firefighters. Jesse is also the CEO of Schell Games (an independent game studio in Pittsburgh), and the Chairman of the International Game Developers Association. In 2004, he was named one of the world’s Top 100 Young Innovators by Technology Review, MIT’s magazine of innovation.