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PhD Thesis Proposal: Zheng Yao, "Peer Support in Online Communities"
Digital Simplicity: Usable Personal Ubicomp
James Landay is the Laboratory Director of Intel Research Seattle, a university affiliated research lab that is exploring the new usage models, applications, and technology for ubiquitous computing. He is also an Associate Professor in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, specializing in human-computer interaction. His current research interests include Automated Usability Evaluation, Demonstrational Interfaces, Ubiquitous Computing, User Interface Design Tools, and Web Design.
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Paying Attention to Interruption: A Human-Centered Approach to Intelligent Interruption Management
Dr. Bailey earned a B.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1993, an M.S. from the University of Minnesota in 1997, and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 2002. Dr. Bailey has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois-Urbana since 2002. His research interests include developing theoretically-based tools, interfaces, and systems for managing user attention, designing computational tools that better support creativity and storytelling, and user interfaces for pervasive computing. Dr.
Language Technologies Institute Colloquium
The 2000 MHCI Capstone Design Project Course
Wilson Chan and Liang-Cheng Lin are Masters students in the MS of HCI program in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
Master of Computational Data Science: MCDS Capstone Poster Sessions
A usability engineering approach to e-learning
Dieter Wallach studied Psychology, Computer Science and Information Science at the Saarland University/Germany. After completing his Ph.D. thesis in Cognitive Science in 1996, he spent a year as a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University. From 1998 to 2000, he held the position of senior researcher at the Psychology Department in Basel/Switzerland. He is currently a professor of Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in Kaiserslautern.
Robotics Thesis Proposal
Participatory Urbanism: Empowering Everyday Civic Engagement and Designing for Wonderment
Eric Paulos is a Senior Research Scientist at Intel in Berkeley, California where he is the founder and director of the Urban Atmospheres research group - challenged to employ innovative methods to explore urban life and the future fabric of emerging technologies across public urban landscapes. His areas of expertise span a deep body of research territory in urban computing, sustainability, green design, environmental awareness, social telepresence, robotics, physical computing, interaction design, persuasive technologies, and intimate media.
CASOS Summer Institute
Human-Agent Teamwork for Information Discovery and Reporting
Danko Nebesh is a senior computer scientist at the Department of Defense where he has worked since 1986. In 1997 he received his PhD in Computer Science at The George Washington University. He received his MS in Computer Science from The Johns Hopkins University and his BS in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University. His research interests include: visualization, HCI, programming languages, and software agents. Currently Nebesh serves as the program manager for the Knowledge Computing program.
Grace Hopper Celebration
Right Time, Right Place: Applying the discipline of design to the emerging problems facing society
Jon Kolko is an Associate Creative Director at frog design and the Founder and Director of Austin Center for Design, an educational institution in Texas. He has worked extensively in the professional world of interaction design, solving the problems of Fortune 500 clients.
HCII Seminar Series - Eleanor O'Rourke
Eleanor O'Rourke is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and the Learning Sciences at Northwestern University, where she co-directs the interdisciplinary Delta Lab. Her research explores the design of novel computational systems to support motivation and learning in STEM domains.
Digital Green: Technology and Social Networks for Agricultural Development
Rikin Gandhi is chief executive officer of Digital Green. Rikin’s interests include sustainable agriculture and technology for socioeconomic development. He co-founded Digital Green as a research project in Microsoft Research India’s Technology for Emerging Markets team and now leads the spin-off of Digital Green that works to amplify the effectiveness of agricultural development globally. Rikin is a licensed private pilot and received patents for linguistic search algorithms that he helped develop at Oracle.
HCII Seminar Series - Jorge Ortiz
Jorge Ortiz is an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University. His expertise lies in sensing systems, interaction, and multimodal learning within heterogeneous, densely sensed environments. Dr. Ortiz serves as a Principal Investigator on the recently awarded $26 million NSF Engineering Research Center, the Center for Smart Streetscapes (CS3), which focuses on advancing multimodal inference in outdoor environments.
Visualizing Voice
Karrie Karahalios is an assistant professor in computer science at the University of Illinois where she heads the Social Spaces Group. Her work focuses on the interaction between people and the social cues they perceive in networked electronic spaces. Of particular interest are interfaces for pubic online and physical gathering spaces such as chatrooms, cafes, parks, etc. The goal is to create interfaces that enable users to perceive conversational patterns that are present, but not obvious, in traditional communication interfaces.