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HCII Seminar Series - Guy Hoffman
HCII Seminar Series - Abhijit Thosar
Semester Course Audit Grade Option Deadline
Reading Day
Session One Audit Grade Option Deadline
THESIS DEFENSE: Jennifer Marlow
Final Examinations
From EHRs to Body-Worn Sensors: Finding Causes of Health and Disease
Samantha Kleinberg is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology. She received her PhD in Computer Science from New York University in 2010 and was a Computing Innovation Fellow at Columbia University in the Department of Biomedical informatics from 2010-2012. She is the recipient of NSF CAREER and JSMF Complex Systems Scholar Awards and her work is also supported by the NIH through an R01.
MHCI Open House for Accepted Students
Participatory Design as a Practice in the Learning Sciences
Dr. Betsy DiSalvo is an Assistant Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. At Georgia Tech she leads the Culture and Technology (CAT) Lab, which focuses on research studying cultural values and how they impact technology use, learning, and production. Currently, the CAT Lab is exploring parents’ use of technology for informal learning.
HCII PhD Thesis Defense: Sauvik Das, "Social Cybersecurity: Reshaping Security Through an Empirical Understanding of Human Social Behavior"
HCII PhD Thesis Defense, "'Alex speaks with my voice!' Promoting science discourse with bidialectal virtual peers"
Thesis Proposal: Kenneth Holstein
HCII Connect
Helping Developers Find Useful Tools
Emerson is an assistant professor at North Carolina State University and Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Research. His research interests include the intersection between human-computer interaction and software engineering. In 2010, completed a post-doc with Gail Murphy at the University of British Columbia. He completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Portland State University in 2009 under Andrew P. Black. He holds a B.S. from the Evergreen State College.
Seminar: Amy J Ko
Amy J. Ko is a Professor at the University of Washington Information School and an Adjunct Professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. She directs the Code & Cognition Lab, where she studies human aspects of programming. Her earliest work included techniques for automatically answering questions about program behavior to support debugging, program understanding, and reuse.
Introducing the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center
My background includes a BS in Mathematics, a MS in Computer Science, a PhD in Cognitive Psychology, and experience teaching in an urban high school. This multi-disciplinary preparation has been critical to my research goal of creating educational technologies that dramatically increase student achievement. Toward this goal, I create “cognitive models”, computer simulations of student thinking and learning, that are used to guide the design of educational materials, practices and technologies.
Undergraduate Interdisciplinary HCI Admissions Window Closes
Human System Integration in the DoD: Challenges and Opportunities
Dr. Greg Zacharias, President and Senior Principal Scientist at Charles River Analytics, guides research in cognitive systems engineering and computational intelligence to support the development of human behavior agents for a broad range of systems applications, as well as the design, implementation, and evaluation of agent-based decision support systems. Before founding Charles River, Dr. Zacharias was a Senior Scientist at BBN Technologies, a Research Engineer at C.S. Draper Labs, and an Air Force attaché for the Space Shuttle program at NASA Johnson Space Center. Dr.