Upcoming Seminars
To stay informed of the latest HCI research and the work of our colleagues, the HCII holds a seminar series. The public is invited to attend these talks, which are held weekly on Friday afternoons during the academic year.
Suggestions for future guest speakers should be sent to bam@cs.cmu.edu.
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April 29, 2022 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm EST |
HCII Seminar Series - Janet Vertesi |
 Associate Professor, Sociology Department, Princeton University |
Seminar Video |
"Building Anti-Racist Technologies: A Critical HCI Approach" From soap dispensers and pulse oximeters that don’t see dark skin,...... Full Details |
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April 22, 2022 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm EST |
HCII Seminar Series - Andrés Monroy-Hernández |
 Principal Research Scientist at Snap Inc., Asst. Professor at Princeton Computer Science |
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"Playful Co-Located Interactions with Mobile Augmented Reality" It is common to spend hours on our digital devices connecting with people...... Full Details |
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April 15, 2022 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm EST |
HCII Seminar Series - Postdocs |
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Seminar Video |
Pallavi ChhabraCMU Postdoc, faculty advisor Ken Koedinger Title: ...... Full Details |
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April 1, 2022 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm EST |
HCII Seminar Series - Rabindra Ratan |
 Associate Professor and AT&T Scholar at Michigan State University’s Department of Media and Information as well as Director of the Social and Psychological Approaches to Research on Technology-Interaction Effects (SPARTIE) Lab |
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"The Metaverse has Arrived, Hello Classes in VR, Goodbye Zoom Fatigue …April Fools!" Can you guess one truth against the...... Full Details |
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March 25, 2022 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm EST |
HCII Seminar Series - Andy Wilson |
 Partner researcher, Microsoft Research |
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"Blending Virtual and Physical Realities with RealityShader" The metaverse is about more than VR headsets and always has been. At...... Full Details |
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March 18, 2022 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm EST |
HCII Seminar Series - Michael Nebeling |
 Assistant Professor of Information, University of Michigan |
Seminar Video |
"Extended Reality for Everybody" Technical advances in virtual, augmented reality, and mixed reality (XR) have paved the way for...... Full Details |
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February 25, 2022 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm EST |
HCII Seminar Series - Nithya Sambasivan |
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Seminar Video |
"All Equation, No Human: The Myopia of Model Centrism" AI models seek to intervene in increasingly higher stakes ...... Full Details |
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February 18, 2022 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm EST |
HCII Seminar Series - Jay Aronson |
 Founder and director of the Center for Human Rights Science at Carnegie Mellon University and Professor of Science, Technology, and Society in the History Department |
Seminar Video |
“Technology for Social Good? AI, Human Rights, and Harm Reduction” ...... Full Details |
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February 11, 2022 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm EST |
HCII Seminar Series - 4 HCII Postdocs |
 HCII Postdocs |
Seminar Video |
The HCII regularly gives our postdocs an opportunity to present during the HCII Speaker Series. This Friday’s seminar will feature four...... Full Details |
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January 28, 2022 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm EST |
HCII Seminar Series - featuring HCII Postdocs |
Adetunji Adeniran, Danielle Chine and Tricia Ngoon Postdoctoral Researchers |
Seminar Video |
The HCII regularly gives our postdocs an opportunity to present during the HCII Speaker Series. This week we will hear from three postdocs...... Full Details |
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January 21, 2022 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm EST |
HCII Seminar Series - Ethan Zuckerman |
 Associate Professor of Public Policy, Information and Communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Director of the Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure |
Seminar Video |
"The Good Web: Competing Visions for the Future of Social Media" Between the US Capitol Insurrection -...... Full Details |
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December 3, 2021 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm EST |
HCII Seminar Series - Amy Pavel |
 Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas, Austin |
Seminar Video |
Human-AI Systems for Making Videos Useful Video is becoming a core medium for communicating a wide range of content, including...... Full Details |
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November 19, 2021 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm EST |
HCII Seminar Series - Leah Buechley |
 Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico |
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"Hand and Machine" I believe that by making technology more accessible and building artifacts that look and...... Full Details |
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November 12, 2021 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm EST |
HCII Seminar Series - Shunichi Kasahara |
 Researcher, Group leader at Sony Computer Science Laboratories |
Seminar Video |
"Superception : Exploring new “Self” in the integration of humans and computers" When computers and humans integrate, to what...... Full Details |
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November 5, 2021 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm EST |
HCII Seminar Series - Kat Schrier Shaenfield |
Kat Schrier Shaenfield Associate Professor/Director of Games, Marist College, School of Communication and the Arts; Consultant, Game Designer, World Health Organization (WHO) |
Seminar Video |
"What if We Could Design Games to Reduce Biases and Enhance Compassion?" Virtual reality (VR) and other types of games have been...... Full Details |
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October 29, 2021 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm EST |
HCII Seminar Series - Tom Hope |
 Postdoctoral researcher at The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) and The University of Washington |
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"Harnessing Scientific Literature for Boosting Discovery and Innovation" In the year 1665, the first academic journal was published. Fast...... Full Details |
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October 22, 2021 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm EST |
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 experiences are one of the |
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October 8, 2021 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm EST |
HCII Seminar Series - Nazanin Andalibi |
 Assistant Professor, University of Michigan School of Information |
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"Where is the Human in Emotion Recognition/AI Technologies?" Emotions are powerful, mediate humans’ experiences with their...... Full Details |
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October 1, 2021 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm EST |
HCII Seminar Series - Joel Chan |
 Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, College of Information Studies (iSchool) |
Seminar Video |
"Accelerating Scientific Discovery by Lowering Barriers to User-Generated Synthesis of Scientific Literature" In today's scholarly...... Full Details |
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September 24, 2021 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm EST |
HCII Seminar Series - Marshini Chetty |
 Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Chicago |
Seminar Video |
"Imagine All The People On A Trustworthy Internet"
Imagine a world where the Internet caters to all types of users and...... Full Details |
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September 17, 2021 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm EST |
HCII Seminar Series - Susan Wyche |
 Associate Professor, Michigan State University, Department of Media and Information |
Seminar Video |
"Reconsidering Human-Centered Approaches to Design in Human-Computer Interaction and Development (HCI4D): Using Design Methods to Reimagine...... Full Details |
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September 10, 2021 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm EST |
HCII Seminar Series - Michael Wessely |
 Postdoctoral Associate at MIT CSAIL |
Seminar Video |
"Fabricating Physical User Interfaces with Smart Materials" Physical user interfaces like mobile phones, or wearable health...... Full Details |
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September 3, 2021 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm EST |
HCII Seminar Series - Gabriela Marcu |
 Assistant Professor, University of Michigan School of Information |
Seminar Video |
"Designing for Coordination and Intervention in Behavioral Health"
Behavioral and mental health is an underserved...... Full Details |