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HCII Seminar Series: Carl DiSalvo
Carl DiSalvo is an Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. At Georgia Tech he directs the Public Design Workshop: a design research studio that explores socially-engaged design practices and civic media. He is also the co-director of the Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing. DiSalvo’s work explores and analyzes the social and political qualities of design.
THESIS DEFENSE: Yanjin Long
"Primordial", Ecological Design and the Nature of Things
Mickey McManus is a research fellow at Autodesk in the Office of the CTO, and Principal & Chairman of the board at MAYA Design, a design consultancy and innovation lab. He's a pioneer in the fields of pervasive computing, collaborative innovation, human-centered design and education.
The Challenges and Opportunities for Real-time Ridesharing Services to Address Unemployment Barriers Among Low-Resourced Populations
Tawanna is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Information and holds a courtesy appointment with the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. Tawanna received her Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) from Carnegie Mellon University.
HCII PhD Thesis Defense: Kelly Rivers
MHCI Open House for Accepted & Waitlisted Students
HCII Connect
Doing Inclusive Design: From GenderMag to InclusiveMag
Margaret Burnett is an OSU Distinguished Professor at Oregon State University. She began her career in industry, where she was the first woman software developer ever hired at Procter & Gamble Ivorydale. A few degrees and start-ups later, she joined academia, with a research focus on people who are engaged in some form of software development.
The How and Why of Google UI
Marissa Mayer has been with Google since June, 1999. Currently product manager for Google.com and formerly the technical lead for the user-interface team, she has spearheaded almost every user-interface change to Google’s website in the past four years. While at Google, she has worked on search classification, the Google web directory, image search, and Google News. She has also internationalized Google’s interface, and has lead much of the UI design and development effort including establishing user testing. Several patents have been filed on her work.
Thanksgiving Holiday; No Classes
Work fragmentation as common practice: The paradox of IT support
Gloria Mark is an Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine, since 2000. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology at Columbia University and worked as a research scientist at Electronic Data Systems and at the German National Institute for Information Technology (GMD) in Bonn, Germany. Her main research interest is in Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. Her current projects include large-scale distributed collaboration, worklife management, and collaboration in crisis situations.
Special Seminar: Portable Laser Cutting with Thijs Roumen
Thijs Roumen is a PhD candidate in Human Computer Interaction in the lab of Patrick Baudisch, Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany. He received his MSc from the University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg in 2013 and BSc from the Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherlands in 2011. Between the PhD and master he worked at the National University of Singapore as a Research Assistant with Shengdong Zhao.
Human Aspects in Software Engineering - Dynamics in making Group Decisions
Gil Taran is a faculty member in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer Science. For the past few years, Mr. Taran’s teaching focus has been Human Aspects of Software Engineering, Information security and project and risk management. He is currently teaching in both the on campus and distance education MSE/MSIT programs.
HCII Seminar Series - featuring HCII Postdocs
Bridging the Gaps: Supporting Cultural Differences in Computer-Mediated Communication
Susan R. Fussell is a Associate Research Professor in the Human Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. She earned her PhD in social and cognitive psychology from Columbia University in 1990. Her current research interests include understanding the effects of culture on computer-mediated communication, designing multimodal systems for remote collaboration, developing tools to enhance scheduling and coordination in hospital settings, and evaluating the benefits and costs of participating in online chatrooms.
Human-Computer Interaction Seminar
Intelligent User Interfaces for Engineering Design Software
Professor Stahovich is an Associate Professor in the Carnegie Mellon Mechanical Engineering Department, where he runs the Smart Tools Lab. He is also a member of CALD, the Center for Automated Learning and Discovery. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from U.C. Berkeley in 1988, an S.M. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT in 1990, and a Ph.D. at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1995. His research includes sketch understanding, automated design documentation tools, machine learning for design, design modification management tools, and geometric feature recognition.
Moving Forward with Stem: Panel Discussion
Information maps and landmarks as an interface to explore Web resources
Peter Brusilovsky is an Assistant Professor of Information Science and Intelligent Systems at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also an adjunct research scientist at HCII. He received his MS and Ph.D. degrees from the Moscow State University. Peter has served as a visiting researcher/professor at Sussex University (UK), Tokyo Denki University (Japan), and University of Trier (Germany). In 1996–1998 he was a visiting research scientist at HCII.