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HCII Seminar Series - Ben Green
Ben Green is an assistant professor in the University of Michigan School of Information and an assistant professor (by courtesy) in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. He holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University, with a secondary field in Science, Technology, and Society. Ben studies the ethics of government algorithms, with a focus on algorithmic fairness, human-algorithm interactions, and AI regulation. Through his research, Ben aims to support design and governance practices that prevent algorithmic harms and advance social justice.
Social Media Use in Crisis and Recovery
Gloria Mark is Professor in the Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on technology use to support collaboration. Her current projects include studying citizen use of social media for resilience in crises, and multitasking and technology use. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Columbia University. Prior to joining UCI in 2000, she worked at the GMD in Bonn, Germany (now Fraunhofer Institute). In 2006 she received a Fulbright scholarship where she worked at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.
HCII Seminar - Eytan Adar
Mini-5 Audit Grade Option Deadline
Session All Audit Grade Option Deadline
Session All & Mini-6 Faculty Course Evaluations
Semester & Mini-3 Classes Begin
Mini-2 Course Drop and Pass/Fail Grade Option Deadline; Assign Withdrawal Grade After This Date
Unlocking the Potential of Algorithms in Human Matters
Min Kyung Lee is a research scientist in human-computer interaction at the Center for Machine Learning and Health at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research examines the social and decision-making implications of intelligent systems and supports the development of more human-centered machine learning applications. Dr. Lee is a Siebel Scholar and has received several best paper awards, as well as an Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence. Her work has been featured in media outlets such as the New York Times, New Scientist, and CBS.
MHCI Alumni Event - CHI 2016
Innovators and their Others: Entrepreneurial Citizenship in Transnational India
Lilly Irani is an Assistant Professor of Communication & Science Studies at University of California, San Diego. Her work examines and intervenes in the cultural politics of high tech work. She is a co-founder and maintainer of digital labor activism tool Turkopticon.
HHI Board Game Meetup
HCII PhD Thesis Proposal: "Practical Ubiquitous Contextual Sensing"
Post Design Thinking: Designing for the Consequences of Innovation
Michael Yap is a designer, developer, and educator. He holds a Bachelor of Studio Arts and Master of Fine Arts in Interaction Design. Yap has worked with design and innovation consultancies like IDEO and now develops company and product strategies and helps oversee operations at Etsy. He has taught design at the California College of the Arts and the School of Visual Arts. His work is published in Raw Data (2014), a book by Steven Heller, and has been covered by a number of publications including Fast Company, Site Inspire, and Wired.
Near-living Spaces: Paradigms and Methods
Philip Beesley (Canadian, born 1956) is a multidisciplinary artist and architect. Beesley’s research is recognized for its pioneering contributions to the rapidly emerging field of responsive interactive architecture. He directs Living Architecture Systems Group (LASG), an international group of researchers and creators. He is a professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo and the European Graduate School. He represented Canada at the 2010 and the 2020 Venice Biennale of Architecture.Exploring Techniques for Efficient, Enjoyable Information Access
John Stasko is an Associate Professor in the College of Computing and the Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests are broadly in HCI, with a particular focus on information visualization, information awareness, user interfaces, and interface agents. Stasko is the Director of the Information Interfaces research group that focuses on helping people harness and take advantage of the multitude of information now available to them.
Mid-Semester Break; No classes
Interfaces for Obtaining and Providing Information from/to Users
Michael Schober is a psychologist who studies how people coordinate their actions, the mental processes underlying that coordination, and how new technologies mediate coordination. His research deals with interdisciplinary questions in psychology, linguistics, human-computer interaction, music, public opinion research, and sociology.
DEI in CS Seminar: Panel of SCS Ph.D. Student DEI Research and Activities
Advertising is Flirtation
Dr. James H. Morris is a professor of Computer Science and dean of the West Coast Campus of Carnegie Mellon University. From 1992 to 2004 he served as department head, then dean in the School of Computer Science. He held the Herbert A. Simon Professor of Human-Computer Interaction from 1997 to 2000. He is a native of Pittsburgh and received a Bachelor’s degree from Carnegie Mellon, an M.S. in Management from MIT and Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT.