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Masters Capstone Project: “Vista” Trace Visualization Tool
The CMU “NASA-West” MHCI project team consisted of five Masters in Human Computer Interaction students with backgrounds in Computer Science, Design, English, and Civil Engineering. The culmination of the Masters project allowed us to spend the past summer at Moffett Field, California working at NASA Ames Research Center to develop a prototype for a trace visualization tool.
Robotics Ph.D. Speaking Qualifier
Knowledge Sharing via Repositories, Personal Networks, Versus Institutionalized Routines
Wai Fong Boh is an Assistant Professor at the Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She received her PhD from the Tepper School of Business at the Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests are in the areas of knowledge management and organizational learning, and the management industry and organizational standards. She has articles published in Management Science, Organization Science, Journal of Management Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, Information & Organization and Human Resource Management.
Computational Biology Seminar
Things as Information and Un-Making Them Right
Tom Igoe is an Associate Arts Professor at the ITP in the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. He teaches courses and workshops in physical computing and networking, exploring ways to allow digital technologies to sense and respond to a wider range of human physical expression. Coming from a background in theatre, his past work has centered on physical interaction related to live performance and public space. Current research focuses on ecologically sustainable practices in technology development and how open hardware development can contribute to that.
Societal Computing Thesis Proposal
Practical Innovation: Making Products that Build Businesses
Karen is the visionary behind InContext’s unique customer-centered design approach, Contextual Design. Karen’s combination of technological and psychological expertise provides the creative framework for driving the development, innovative designs, and design processes.
Labor Day Holiday - University Closed
The Science and Design of Internet Experiences
Dr. Elizabeth Churchill is a Principal Research Scientist and manager of the Internet Experiences group at Yahoo! Research. Originally a psychologist by training, throughout her career Elizabeth has focused on understanding the ways in which people interact—whether their interactions are primarily face to face or are technologically mediated. She has published within the areas of theoretical and applied psychology, cognitive science, human computer interaction and computer supported cooperative work.
HCII Ph.D. Thesis Defense: Prerna Chikersal
The Future of E-Commerce
Dr. Samuel Leinhardt has been an educator and serial entrepreneur. Leinhardt earned BA, MA and PhD degrees at the University of Chicago (1965, 1967 and 1968) concentrating on mathematical and statistical applications in economics and sociology. He pioneered the development of stochastic digraph theory and its application to social networks. He was an SSRC Post Doctoral Fellow in Mathematical Social Science at Harvard University and taught at universities around the world.
Start of Spring Semester - HCII Party!
HCII Seminar: A New Era of IBM Design
As General Manager of IBM Design, Phil Gilbert sets the strategy for and leads the transformation of product design at IBM. IBM Design is focused on three things: recruiting & retaining top designers, scaling the consistent practice of great design across IBM, and simplifying access to IBM’s broad portfolio of capabilities. Previously, Phil led the Business Process Management segment for IBM, where he drove the simplification of its portfolio and the ease-of-use of its products. Phil joined IBM in 2010 via the acquisition of Lombardi Software where he was President.
The Continuing Quest for Secure and Usable Passwords
Lorrie Faith Cranor is a Professor of Computer Science and of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University where she is director of the CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS) and co-director of the MSIT-Privacy Engineering masters program. She is also a co-founder of Wombat Security Technologies, Inc. She has authored over 100 research papers on online privacy, usable security, and other topics.
Mini-5 Final Grades Due by 4 p.m.
Mini-3 Course Drop Deadline to Receive Tuition Adjustment
Session Two Faculty Course Evaluations
Mini-2 Course Audit Grade Option Deadline
THESIS DEFENSE: Eliane Wiese
Interactive Visual Tools for Mining Large Graphs
Duen Horng (Polo) Chau is an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech’s School of Computational Science and Engineering, and an Associate Director of the MS Analytics program. Polo holds a PhD in Machine Learning and a Masters in human-computer interaction (HCI). His PhD thesis won Carnegie Mellon’s Computer Science Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention. Polo received faculty awards from Google, Yahoo, and LexisNexis, Raytheon Faculty Fellowship, Edenfield Faculty Fellowship, Outstanding Junior Faculty Award.