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.

Date	Title	Speaker	Talk title and Abstract
September 29, 2014 4:00pm	Dream Worlds: Imagining the Worlds of Walden and The Night Journey	Tracy Fullerton 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
September 24, 2014 4:00pm	HCII Seminar Series: Carl DiSalvo	Carl DiSalvo Associate Professor; School of Literature, Media, and Communication; Georgia Institue of Technology	Design Experiments in Speculative Civics Design is increasingly involved in our public lives, giving form to issues and working to enable new modes of participation. Usually this takes an instrumental approach in which the goal is to use design to provide solutions to pressing or perceived matters… Full Details
September 17, 2014 4:00pm	HCII Seminar Series: Neil Alexander co-sponsored by QoLT	Neil Alexander Co-Founder, LiveLikeLou.org	Making the Choice to “Live Like Lou” In this inspiring presentation, Neil Alexander uses his personal experience of being diagnosed with ALS, the fatal disease commonly referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease, to emphasize the real-life benefits that gratitude can provide. Using Lou Gehrig’s “Luckiest… Full Details
September 10, 2014 4:00pm	HCII Seminar Series: Chad Jones	Chad Jones	"Transforming Human Interaction with our World Through the Internet of Things" The next paradigm shift in the Internet will be ability to address, sense and control literally anything in the physical world. Described as The Internet of Things (IoT), the Internet of Everything (IoE) and the… Full Details
August 27, 2014 4:00pm	HCII Seminar Series: Sarita Yardi Schoenebeck	Sarita Yardi Schoenebeck Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan	"Supporting Parents Online" Almost 30 years after Howard Rheingold’s 1986 account of parenting support he received on the WELL, parents have now become one of the most active demographics of social media users. Though there has been extensive interest in digital youth, little research has focused… Full Details
May 7, 2014 4:00pm	HCII Seminar: A New Era of IBM Design	Phil Gilbert General Manager, IBM Design	Great brands are known, in part, for the design of their products and for understanding how design can fuel client loyalty and longstanding relationships. Think about what makes you choose a product: it's not just about what it does, it's about the experience you have when using it; that is what… Full Details
April 23, 2014 4:00pm	HCII Seminar: Baking Data Into Design: User Experience at Google	Laura Granka Head of UX Research, Google+	The User Experience discipline has made great strides in recent years, especially towards tablet and mobile experiences. Understanding mobile device use is ever more important when evaluating global behaviors and trends, yet researchers have generally been slower to adopt and prioritize device… Full Details
April 16, 2014 4:00pm	HCII Seminar - Ryan Brotman
April 9, 2014 4:00pm	HCII Seminar - Eytan Adar
April 2, 2014 4:00pm	HCII Seminar - Yu-ru Lin
March 26, 2014 4:00pm	HCII Seminar - Shaun Kane
February 26, 2014 4:00pm	HCII Seminar Series - Bill Thies
February 12, 2014 4:00pm	HCII Seminar Series - David Shamma
February 5, 2014 3:00pm	HCII Seminar Series - Guy Hoffman		Please note special starting time of 3pm.