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Cognitive Modeling with Apex
Bonnie John is an Associate Professor and founding member of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute. She holds degrees in mechanical engineering (BEng, The Cooper Union; MS, Stanford) and psychology (MS, PhD Carnegie Mellon). Her research interests are in methods for designing more usable computer systems, including computational cognitive modeling and software architectures for usability. She is a member of the National Research Council’s Committee on Human Factors. Dr. John spent the summer of 2001 at “CM-West” (NASA Ames) where this work was done.
Robotics Ph.D. Speaking Qualifier
Rethinking Gestural Interaction for Mobile and Wearable Computing
Ian’s research interests lie in the design, construction and evaluation of multi-modal user interfaces; in exploring how to create systems which support rich, expressive, efficient and satisfying interaction by taking advantage of the full range of human senses. He holds a first class joint honours BSc in Computing Science and Psychology and a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, both from the University of Glasgow, UK.
IDeaS Seminar
Communication, Trust, Awareness? Who needs it?
James Herbsleb is a Professor in the Institute for Software Research, SCS, CMU. His research interests lie primarily in the intersection of software engineering and computer-supported cooperative work, focusing on such areas as geographically-distributed development teams, open source software development, and more generally on coordination in software engineering. The research on which this talk is based has won the Best Paper award at CSCW 2006, the Best in Track award at ICIS 2006, and an ACM Distinguished Paper award at ESEM 2008.
Crypto Seminar
Mobility: Thinking Outside the Phone
Dr. James H. Morris is a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He received a Bachelor’s degree from Carnegie Mellon, an MBA and Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT. He taught at the University of California at Berkeley where he developed some important underlying principles of programming languages: inter-module protection and lazy evaluation. He was a co-discoverer of the Knuth-Morris-Pratt string searching algorithm.
PhD Thesis Proposal: Nur Yildirim, "Discovering the Right Human Experiences to Design with Artificial Intelligence"
Feminism and HCI: Intersections and Opportunities
Shaowen Bardzell is an assistant professor in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University. She is also an affiliated faculty of the Kinsey Institute in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. Dr. Bardzell’s research centers on the theme of socio-cultural computing, with an emphasis on emotional, intimate, and embodied computing experiences. She leverages her background in the humanities to study computing in use.
HCII Ph.D. Thesis Defense: Vikram Cannanure
Toward Intuitive Design Interfaces
Ellen Yi-Luen Do is an Associate Professor of Computational Design in the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining Carnegie Mellon University, Ellen was on the faculty at University of Washington (99–04) where she co-directed the Design Machine Group, and served as Faculty Advisor for the MS program in Design Computing, and the Honors Program. Prior to UW, Ellen worked at University of Colorado at Boulder (94–99) as a researcher and lecturer for the Sundance Lab for Computing in Design and Planning. She joined Carnegie Mellon’s faculty in September 2004.