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Seminar: Chris Martens
The How and Why of Google UI
Marissa Mayer, Director of Consumer Web Products, Google Marissa Mayer has been with Google since June 1999 and is currently Director of Consumer Web Products and Product Manager for Google.com. 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, Google News.
Undergraduate Interdisciplinary HCI Admissions Window Opens
Alice: Making it Fun to Learn Computer Programming
Randy Pausch is a Professor of Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, and Design at Carnegie Mellon, where he is the co-founder of CMU’s Entertainment Technology Center (ETC). He was a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator and a Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellow. He has done Sabbaticals at Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) and Electronic Arts (EA), and has consulted with Disney on user interfaces for interactive theme park attractions and with Google on user interface design and testing. Dr.
PhD Thesis Defense: Steven Dang, "Exploring Behavioral Measurement Models of Learner Motivation"
People, Pens and Computers
François Guimbretière is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL). His main research focus is on pen computing. In the paper world, he studies how new digital pen technologies can be used to manage information captured on paper. In the digital world, he examines new designs for efficient pen-based computing.
His research interests also include information visualization and hardware design.
Computer Science Speaking Skills Talk
The Student is Not Like Me
My background includes a BS in Mathematics, a MS in Computer Science, a PhD in Cognitive Psychology, and experience teaching in an urban high school. This multi-disciplinary preparation has been critical to my research goal of creating educational technologies that dramatically increase student achievement. Toward this goal, I create “cognitive models”, computer simulations of student thinking and learning, that are used to guide the design of educational materials, practices and technologies.
Machine Learning Thesis Proposal
Fighting Spirit: Designing a Breast Cancer Survivor Centered Web Site
Anne R. Humphreys is the co-director of the Learning Systems Architecture Lab at Carnegie Mellon University. She is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, MA in Professional Writing (1994) and MA in Communication Planning and Design (1996). Anne was diagnosed with breast cancer in May 1999 at the age of 35.
Mission to Mars: CMU Alumni Discuss Their Work on Perseverance Rover
Automating & Customizing the Web with Keyword Programming
Rob Miller is an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002, and his dissertation earned the CMU SCS Distinguished Dissertation award and received an honorable mention in the ACM Distinguished Dissertation competition. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2005. His research interests span human-computer interaction, user interfaces, software engineering, and artificial intelligence.
Language Technologies Ph.D. Thesis Defense
On Hiring Design Graduates; or, how to graduate from the HCII and get a sweet job making boatloads of money and building really cool products
Jon Kolko is an associate creative director at frog design in Austin, TX. His professional work involves the synthesis of complicated business and technological constraints in order to best solve the problems of Fortune 500 clients. The work spans the boundaries of information architecture, interaction design and usability engineering; the common underlying theme of these problems and projects is the creation of a solution that is useful, usable, and desirable.
SHPE 2022 National Convention
Collective Intelligence in Human Groups
Anita Williams Woolley is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory at the Tepper School of Business. She has a PhD in Organizational Behavior from Harvard University, where she also earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. At the Tepper School of Business, she teaches MBA and undergraduate courses on managing groups and teams in organizations.
HCII PhD Communication Requirement talks
Modern Craft: Locating the Material in a Digital Age
Daniela Rosner is a PhD Candidate at the School of Information at UC Berkeley. Her research combines design, computing and fieldwork to reveal the social conditions and cultural values that shape and are shaped by digital technology. She has worked in design research at Microsoft Research, Adobe Systems, Nokia Research and as an exhibit designer at several museums, including the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum. Most recently, Daniela developed a graduate interaction design studio that she taught at the California College of the Arts (CCA). She holds a B.F.A.
HCII PhD Comm Talks - NSH & Tepper
Designing an Incentive Mechanism for Encouraging Participation in an Online Community
Julita Vassileva received her Ph.D in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Sofia, Bulgaria. She has worked as research associate at the Institute of Mathematics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and at the Federal Armed Forces University in Munich, Germany. She moved to Canada in 1997 and she is currently an associate professor at the Computer Science Department at the University of Saskatchewan.