News & Events

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Recent news stories are available below. Looking for info about the HCII Seminar Series or other upcoming events? Visit our Events or website Calendar pages to learn more.

Jul

1

9:30 AM

Ph.D. Thesis Defense, "Co-designing family-centered literacy technology in rural Côte d’Ivoire"

Michael Madaio

Committee: Amy Ogan, Co-Chair (HCII, CMU) Justine Cassell, Co-Chair (LTI, CMU) Ken Koedinger (HCII, CMU)...
Virtual, streaming via Zoom
Jul

31

1:29 PM

Tag, You’re It: Game Designers Play Leapfrog with Design and Technology

Dave Kanter

Professor, Department of Design and Technology, Parsons School of Design

How has the intersection of design and technology affected our lives, our progress, and the...
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)
Nov

9

1:30 PM

PhD Thesis Proposal: Michal Luria

Michal Luria

Thesis Committee: Jodi Forlizzi (Co-Chair, HCII, CMU) John Zimmerman (Co-Chair, HCII, CMU) Geoff Kaufman (HCII...
via Zoom (see email announcement)
Jul

31

1:29 PM

Beating Some Common Sense into Interactive Applications

Henry Lieberman

Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A long-standing dream of artificial intelligence has been to put common sense knowledge into computers-enabling...
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)
Nov

12

1:30pm

HCII Seminar Series - Shunichi Kasahara

Shunichi Kasahara

Researcher, Group leader at Sony Computer Science Laboratories

"Superception : Exploring new “Self” in the integration of humans and computers" When computers and...
This presentation will be held remotely.
Jul

31

1:29 PM

Interctive Data Exploration with Diamond

Mahadev Satyanarayanan

Carnegie Group Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

How does a domain expert discover something relevant to an urgent task in a large...
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)
Apr

29

1:30pm

HCII Seminar Series - Janet Vertesi

Janet Vertesi

Associate Professor, Sociology Department, Princeton University

"Building Anti-Racist Technologies: A Critical HCI Approach" From soap dispensers and pulse oximeters that don’t...
Livestream only, no recording
Jul

31

1:29 PM

The Internet in School: Problems and Possibilities

Janet Ward Schofield

Psychology Department and Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh

This presentation reports the results of a wide ranging five-year study of a project designed...
Wean Hall 5409
Apr

26

5:30pm

Corporate Startup Lab Demo Day 2022

Celebrate the Graduate Student Teams

Join the Corporate Startup Lab (CSL) and theircorporate project sponsors as they celebrate their student...
In Person
Jul

31

1:29 PM

Cell Phone Experiment: Speech, Complexity, and Driving

Sara Kiesler and Susan Fussell

Professor and Systems Scientist, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Cell phones offer vast possibilities for obtaining and using information while mobile, but present major...
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)

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