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HCII PhD Thesis Proposal, "Building Better Behavioral Measurement Models from Fine-Grained Data with AI"

Steven C. Dang

Committee: Ken Koedinger (HCII), Chair Adam Perer (HCII) Nikolas Martelaro (HCII) Artur Dubrawski (RI) Sidney...

Learning and Collaboration across Generations in a Community

Mary Beth Rosson

Professor, Information Sciences & Technology, Pennsylvania State University

Community networks and information technology bring many new opportunities for learning, interaction, and collaboration into...

Seminar: Morgan Ames

Morgan Ames

Assistant Adjunct Professor in the School of Information and Associate Director of the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society at the University of California, Berkeley

"The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child" Drawing on...

design: a computational perspective from architecture

Mark D Gross

Professor, School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University

Design is central to our lives, yet our ways of doing it remain primitive and...

HCII Speaker Series - Daragh Byrne

Daragh Byrne

Associate Teaching Track faculty, School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University

"Storytelling with data and devices: making sense of the quantified self" Stories about our everyday...

The Leap to Efficiency: The Impacts of Peer Observation

S. Camille Peres

Assistant Professor, Psychology Department, University of Houston

Although previous research shows that software is often used inefficiently, little is known about the...

SCS DEI Seminar: Data-Driven Diversity with Kody Manke and Kevin Jarbo

Kody Manke, Psychology Department and Kevin Jarbo, Social and Decision Sciences

Both are CMU Faculty

Shared-browser interface for collaborative environments

Manu Kumar

Founder, President and CEO of SneakerLabs, Inc.

Several years and years of research have gone into designing “usable” collaborative environments. There have...

Computational Biology Thesis Defense

MARIA KORSHUNOVA

Ph.D. Candidate
Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology
Department of Computational Biology
Carnegie Mellon University

This thesis describes novel deep generative neural networks and their applications for the de-novo design...

Designing Pleasurable Products—Holistic Design Now and For The Future

Patrick W. Jordan

Head of the Contemporary Trends Institute (CTI)

How can we design pleasurable products, considering dimensions other than product usability? My talk will...

Robotics Ph.D. Speaking Qualifier

SUDEEP DASARI

Ph.D. Student
Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

In this talk I'll describe how recent advances in neural rendering and novel view synthesis...

Artifacts and Coordination in High-Stake Environments

Yan Xiao

Director of Human Factors & Technology Research, School of Medicine, University of Maryland

This presentation will first present a phenomenology of coordination in a high-stake environment: a trauma...

IDeaS Seminar

EMERSON T. BROOKING

Senior Fellow
Digital Forensic Research Lab of the Atlantic Council

As public awareness of foreign influence operations has grown, so have efforts to describe and...

Creating Effective Decision Aids for Complex Tasks

Caroline Hayes

Professor, University of Minnesota

Rapid, high quality product design is essential for competitiveness in the global economy. For many...

Crypto Seminar

YUNCONG HU

Ph.D. Student, Computer Science
Electrical Engineering Computer Science Department
University of California, Berkeley

We introduce a new class of succinct arguments, that we call elastic. Elastic SNARKs allow...

A Practise-based Approach to Human Centred Computing

Volker Wulf

Professor in Information Systems and Director, Media Research Institute University of Seigen, Fraunhofer FIT

Computer applications are getting increasingly interwoven in everyday life. To build these applications, we need...

HCII PhD Thesis Proposal: Huy Nguyen

Huy Nguyen

HCII PhD Candidate

Addressing the Gender Gap in Middle School Math Education through Digital Learning Games Huy Nguyen...

Economy Map: An Experiment in the Visualization of Complexity

Jason Pearson

Founder, TRUTHStudio

What if we could see and dynamically interact with the entire US economy and its...

HCII Ph.D. Thesis Proposal: Alex Cabrera

Time and Location: July 20, 2023 - 12pm ET Gates & Hillman Centers (GHC) 6121...

Experience and the Examined Life—capturing, summarizing and representing process, events and experience

Aisling Kelliher

Associate Professor, School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University

Understanding and representing experiences has captured the imagination of philosophers, artists and indeed everyday folk...