Filling in the H in CHI

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Speaker
Terry Winograd
Professor of Computer Science and Director, Stanford Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Stanford University

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Baker Hall 136A (Adamson Wing)

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Over the decades since the original framing of HCI as dealing with the “human information processor” we have seen an ongoing expansion of the field’s perspective on the human side of the interaction. The human is physically embodied, non-rational, emotional, and social. An individual human’s activity is part of collective and interactive groups. Every human is enmeshed in a specific economic and political environment as well as a global environment. Each time we broaden our view, we raise new challenges and opportunities for designing interactions with computers and information devices. I will reflect on the ways in which the field has introduced new dimensions of humanness over the years, and how that has shaped the research agenda and the kinds of designs we create. I will speculate on where this may go in the future, and how we might expect to see HCI evolving further.

Speaker's Bio

Terry Winograd is professor of computer science at Stanford University, and co-director of the Stanford Human-Computer Interaction Group. He is known within the philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence fields for his pioneering work on natural language and for his book with Fernando Flores, Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design (1986), which raised philosophical questions about the underlying paradigm of artificial intelligence research.In the 1990s, Winograd did research in collaborative computing, including uses of ubiquitous computing in collaborative work. His book Bringing Design to Software brought together a wide range of design perspectives and is widely cited in Human Computer Interaction as part of the shift of focus in the field. In the early 1980s, Winograd was a founding member and national president of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, a group of computer scientists concerned about nuclear weapons, SDI, and increasing participation by the U.S. Department of Defense in the field of computer science. Today, Winograd continues to do research at Stanford and teach classes and seminars in human-computer interaction. In addition to the Computer Science Dept., Winograd is associated with the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford, also known as the “d.school,” which he helped found. He also co-directs the Project on Liberation Technologies in the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL). He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award in 2011.

Speaker's Website
http://hci.stanford.edu/winograd/

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Steven Dow