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Thesis Proposal: Kerry Chang
Mini-5 Course Drop Deadline to Receive Tuition Adjustment
Semester & Mini-4 Course Withdrawal Grade Deadline
Session Two Last Day of Classes
Semester Course Add Deadline
Myo meetup with Thalmic Labs
METALS Professional Talk Series: Steve Ritter
BHCI Alumni Event - CHI 2016
CANCELED: Tracking Behavioral Symptoms of Mental Health and Delivering Personalized Interventions Using Mobile and Wearable Devices
Tanzeem Choudhury is an associate professor in Computing and Information Sciences at Cornell University and a co-founder of HealthRhythms. At Cornell, she directs the People-Aware Computing group, which works on inventing the future of technology-assisted wellbeing. Tanzeem received her PhD from the Media Laboratory at MIT. Tanzeem was awarded the MIT Technology Review TR35 award, NSF CAREER award and a TED Fellowship. Follow the group's work on twitter @pac_cornell
HHI Board Game Meetup
HCII PhD Thesis Proposal: Amy Shannon Cook, "Using Interactive Learning Activities to Address Challenges of Peer Feedback Systems"
Thesis Proposal: Anhong Guo, "Human-AI Systems for Visual Information Access"
Understanding Human Behavior for Better Assistive Robots
Henny Admoni is an Assistant Professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, with a courtesy appointment in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute. At CMU, she leads the Human And Robot Partners (HARP) Lab. Dr. Admoni studies how to develop intelligent robots that can assist and collaborate with humans on complex tasks like preparing a meal. She is most interested in how natural human communication, like where someone is looking, can reveal underlying human intentions and can be used to improve human-robot interactions. Dr.
Taking Email To Task
Dr. Ian Smith is a member of the research staff at PARC Incorporated. His work focuses on the integration of software development tools and practices with ethnographic techniques in user interface development. He has published numerous papers in conferences such as the ACM symposium on user interface software, ACM conference on computer supported cooperative work, and the ACM conference on human-computer interaction. He currently has eleven United States patents pending. In 1998, he was granted a Ph. D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.
Seminar: Anne Marie Piper
Anne Marie Piper is an Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. Her research in human-computer interaction focuses on designing and studying new technologies to support communication, social interaction, and learning for people across the lifespan. Her research is funded through four NSF awards, including a CAREER award, and has been recognized with numerous Best Paper Awards and Nominations at ACM CHI, CSCW, DIS, and ASSETS. She was named a U.S.
Personas, Goals, and Emotional Design
Robert Reimann has spent the last 15 years pushing the boundaries of digital products as a designer, writer, lecturer, manager, and consultant. He has led dozens of interaction design projects in domains including e-commerce, desktop productivity, authoring environments, medical and scientific instrumentation, kiosks, information systems, and consumer electronics, for startups and Fortune 500 companies alike. As Director of Design R&D at Cooper, Robert helped develop and refine the interaction design methodologies described in About Face 2.0, co-authored with Alan Cooper.
DEI in CS Seminar: Jeff Forbes
Jeff Forbes is the lead Program Director for the Education & Workforce program in the National Science Foundation's Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (NSF CISE), managing programs that address the critical and complex issues of education and broadening participation in computing. He is currently the Director of Research & Policy for the Constellations Center for Equity in Computing at Georgia Tech. From 2001-2019, Jeff was on the faculty of Duke University where he was an Associate Professor of the Practice of Computer Science.
Closing the Affective Gap
Phoebe Sengers is an assistant professor in Information Science and Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University, where she leads the Culturally Embedded Computing group. She works in HCI and cultural analysis of IT, developing new theories, methods, and applications that respond to and encourage critical reflection on the place of technology in culture.
HCII PhD Communication Requirement talks
User Interfaces and Algorithms for Anti-Phishing
Jason Hong joined the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in 2004 as an assistant professor in the Human Computer Interaction Institute. He works in the areas of ubiquitous computing and usable privacy and security, focusing on location-based services, anti-phishing, mobile social computing, and end-user programming. He is also an author of the book The Design of Sites, a pattern-based approach to designing customer-centered web sites. He received his PhD from Berkeley and his undergraduate degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology.