Past Seminars
The HCII Seminar Series has been a weekly tradition at CMU since 1990. Details of our seminars from 2014 to present, as well as many of their recordings, are available below. A few years ago, we held a year of special programming in celebration of the seminar's 25th anniversary.
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| Barbarians | 
Studio Director, Interactive Institute Swedish ICT |
In an age of massive transnational migrations, it becomes relevant to explore the concept of Barbarians. Where do they come from? From afar or from within? Barbarians are the ones that do not speak the language, they do not share the same system of representations of the accepted situated… Full Details | |
| Debiasing Decisions: Improved Decision Making With a Single Training Intervention | 
Associate Professor of Marketing, Questrom School of Business, Boston University |
From failures of intelligence analysis to misguided beliefs about vaccinations, biased judgment and decision making contributes to problems in policy, business, medicine, law, education, and private life. Early attempts to reduce decision biases with training met with little success, leading… Full Details | |
| Data-Driven Healthcare: Visual Analytics for Exploration and Prediction of Clinical Data | 
Research Scientist, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center |
Healthcare institutions are now recording more electronic health data about patients than ever before, including data about patient conditions, lab tests, genomics, treatments, and outcomes. However, an open question remains on what one can do with all of this data. Many hope… Full Details | |
| Designing At The Intersections | 
Assistant Professor, School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University |
Despite growing interest in interdisciplinary educations, many young art students still fear the idea of learning about technology. One of the missing pieces in enabling art students to get excited about learning something beyond their comfort zone is helping the students figure out how other… Full Details | |
| Design History: The Bauhaus | 
Associate Teaching Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University |
The Bauhaus was the first academy for design in the world and has played a significant role in the history of design, art, and new media. The motivations behind the creation of the Bauhaus lay in 19th century anxieties about the soullessness of manufacturing and its products. Many historians… Full Details | |
| HCII Seminar: Yao Cheng |
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| A Glance at Design Education and Practice in China | 
Deputy Director of Information Product Design Program, Zhejiang University |
In recent years, China is more and more focused on innovation and design as it's desired to transform itself from "Made in China" to "Designed in China" or "Created in China". How are we doing in this dramatic change? In this talk, I introduce the development of design education of Zhejiang… Full Details | |
| When New Technology Is Old: Organizing Surgery in the Face of Legacy Robotic Surgical Systems | 
Doctoral Student, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| Enabling Creativity Through Better Tools for Designers and Developers | 
Senior Research Scientist and Engineering Manager, Adobe Research |
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| HCII Seminar Series: Nicole Kramer |
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| Exploring the Universe with Immersive Virtual Reality | 
Human Interfaces Manager, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab |
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| Behavioral Science at Disney Research | 
Research Scientist, Disney Research |
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| Your Brain on Typography | 
Senior Curator, Contemporary Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Tasty Technology: Creating Multisensory Experiences | 
Lecturer in Interaction Design, Department of Informatics, University of Sussex |
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| Going Beyond Code Search | 
Professor, Computer Science Department, Brown University |
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| Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as Components of Rich Landscapes of Learning | 
Adjunct Professor and Professor Emeritus, Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder |
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| The Continuing Quest for Secure and Usable Passwords | 
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University |
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| Humanizing the Enterprise: Delivering Best in Class Experience to Business Software Users | 
Head of Strategic Design Services, Design & Co-Innovation Center, SAP Labs |
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| Toward Gender-Inclusive Software: A Tale of Five Facets | 
Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University |
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| Walgreens Customer Experience: From "At" to "Through" | 
UX Manager, Walgreens |
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| Robots as ‘Companion Species’? Designing for Disability and the Mixed Spaces of Human-Robot Interactions | 
Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh |
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| Socio-technical Systems Under Stress | 
Computational Social Scientist and Research Associate, Harvard Business School‘s HBX |
Socio-technical Systems Under Stress Socio-technical systems can face intense stresses arising from unusual patterns of human social behavior. Misinformation can propagate rapidly through social networks like Twitter despite the availability of fact-checking websites. Wikipedia's encyclopedia… Full Details | |
| Motivational Environments: Strategies for Personalized Learning, Intelligent Creativity Support,and Open Health Innovation | 
Associate Professor, College of Nursing and Computer Science Department, New York University |
Motivational Environments:Strategies for Personalized Learning, Intelligent Creativity Support,and Open Health Innovation Advances in wearable and ambient sensors, responsive spaces, robots and relational agents present transformative opportunities to develop context and affect aware systems for… Full Details | |
| Expanding Games | 
Co-Founder, Funomena |
Games, now more than ever, are expanding. Reaching new audiences via new devices and technologies, exploring deeper subjects via evolving modes of interactivity, and empowering bright new voices from all over the world. In this talk I will cover my history as a researcher, maker and evangelist of… Full Details | |
| HCII Seminar Series: Jon Froehlich | 
Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of Maryland College Park |
"Characterizing Physical World Accessibility at Scale Using Crowdsourcing, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning" Roughly 30.6 million individuals in the US have physical disabilities that affect their ambulatory activities; nearly half of those individuals report using an assistive aid such as a… Full Details | |
| HCII Seminar Series: Yao Cheng |
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| HCII Seminar Series: Laurel Riek | 
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame |
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| HCII Seminar Series: Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson | 
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Director of the Center for Analysis and Design of Intelligent Agents, Reykjavik University |
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| HCII Seminar Speaker: Leanne Bowler | 
Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh |
"Friendship, joy, cruelty, confusion…and sometimes, reflection and wisdom: Young peoples’ interactions with information and communications technologies" Digital forms of information are increasingly ubiquitous, unbound to a physical space and embedded within all manner of “smart” objects. From… Full Details | |
| Dream Worlds: Imagining the Worlds of Walden and The Night Journey | 
Associate Professor, USC School of Cinematic Arts Chair, Univrsity of Southern California |
In this presentation, Tracy will discuss the evolution of the designs for two experimental game worlds: The Night Journey and Walden, a game. The Night Journey is a collaboration with media artist Bill Viola which game takes place in a visually abstracted landscape that layers 3D imagery, post… Full Details |