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How Visual Co-Presence and Joint Attention Shape Collaboration and Speaking
Susan Brennan is Associate Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, with joint appointments in the Departments of Linguistics and Computer Science. She received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Stanford University with a focus on psycholinguistics, her M.S.V.S. from what is now the MIT Media Lab, where she worked on computer-generated caricatures and teleconferencing interfaces, and her B.A. is in anthropology from Cornell University.
Computer Science Speaking Skills Talk
Leveraging Contexts, Expertise, and Instructional Design in Educational Technology Research
David Feldon is an Assistant Professor of Educational Studies at the University of South Carolina. His research integrates principles of human cognition with instructional design methods and educational technologies to optimize the contributions of experts to the instructional process. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Dr. Feldon’s current work analyzes the effects of online instruction derived from experts’ cognitive task analyses for undergraduate science majors.
Wells Fargo - Campus Analytics Challenge 2022
Bridging the Intellectual Divide: Integrating Research and Education via the Vertically-Integrated Projects Program
Edward J. Coyle received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware in 1978 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University in 1982. From 1982 through 2007, he was a faculty member at Purdue University, where he served at various times as assistant vice provost for research, co-director of the Center for Wireless Systems and Applications, and co-founder of both the Vertically-Integrated Projects (VIP) program and the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program. Dr.
Machine Learning Department 25th Anniversary
Butler Lies: How Media Attributes Shape Deception in Availability Management
Jeremy Birnholtz is an assistant professor in the Departments of Communication and Information Science at Cornell University, as well as the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. His research aims to improve the usefulness and usability of communication and collaboration tools, via a focus on understanding and exploiting mechanisms of human attention. Jeremy’s work has been published in the ACM CHI, CSCW and Group Proceedings, as well as in Organization Science and JASIST.
HCII PhD Communication Requirement talks
Grounded Innovation: Strategies for Creating Digital Products
Lars Erik Holmquist leads the Mobile Innovations group at Yahoo! Labs in Santa Clara, CA. Previously, he was Professor in Media Technology at Södertörn University and manager of the Interaction Design and Innovation lab at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science. He was a co-founder and research leader at the Mobile Life Centre, a joint research venture between academia and industry hosted at Stockholm University, with major partners including Ericsson, Microsoft, Nokia, TeliaSonera and the City of Stockholm. He received his M.Sc. in Computer Science in 1996, his Ph.D.
HCII PhD Student Review
The Thrill of Discovery: Information Visualization for High-Dimensional Spaces
Ben Shneiderman is a Professor in the Departmentof Computer Science, Founding Director (1983–2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, and Member of the Institutes for Advanced Computer Studies & for Systems Research, all at the University of Maryland at College Park. He was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing (ACM) in 1997 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2001. He received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.
HCII Ph.D. Defense: Nur Yildirim
HCII Seminar: Baking Data Into Design: User Experience at Google
Laura first joined Google in 2004, and now heads the User Experience Research team for Google Social. She spent her first six years at Google with Search, leading research on products like social search and Google Instant, and moved to Google+ in 2011. Laura completed her PhD at Stanford University, with her MS and BS from Cornell University. While at Cornell, Laura used eyetracking to assess how individuals view and select search results, with implications for ranking evaluation.