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Design Questions on the Eve of Virtual Reality’s Pop Debut
Jaron Lanier is a computer scientist, composer, visual artist, and author. He is probably best known for his work in Virtual Reality. He coined the term “Virtual Reality,” and was a principal pioneer in the scientific, engineering, and commercial aspects of the field. Currently, Lanier serves as the Lead Scientist of the National Tele-Immersion Initiative, a coalition of research universities studying advanced applications for Internet 2. He is a founding partner of the ground-breaking artist friendly music/tech start-up MusicisuM.
Software Research Seminar
Enhancing Technologies: A Usability Study of Mobile Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals (IETMs)
Jane Siegel is a Senior Systems Scientist in the Human Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). She designs and conducts laboratory and field evaluation studies to measure the effects of providing information technology to enable mobile workers to perform physical tasks solo or when they collaborate with remote helpers to improve their work performance. Current research and development projects she works with are developing support systems for vehicular maintenance workers, e.g., U.S. Navy F/A - 18 aircraft maintainers.
Language Technologies Institute Colloquium
New Interfaces for Musical Expression
Tina Blaine (aka Bean) is a visiting faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center and Human Computer Interaction Institute, exploring new interface designs for collaborative musical games and interactive media. Inspired by global traditions and spontaneous music, Blaine has explored musical interaction starting in the 80s building electronic MIDI controller instruments and large-scale audience participation devices with the multimedia ensemble D'CuCKOO.
Master of Science in Robotics Thesis Talk
Challenges and Opportunities for Technologies for Chronic Care Management
Gillian R. Hayes is an Assistant Professor in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Irvine where she directs the Social and Technological Action Research Group. Her research interests are in human-computer interaction, specifically in the areas of ubiquitous computing, computer supported cooperative work, and health informatics. At UCI, Dr.
DREAMWORKS ANIMATION: Trainee Program
Discovery-driven Prototyping for Human-centered Innovation in Ubiquitous Computing
Dr. Youn-kyung Lim is an assistant professor at the Department of Industrial Design at KAIST in South Korea. Prof. Lim received her Ph.D. at the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago, Illinois, and holds a Master of Design (M.Des.) in Human-centered Design from the same university. She holds a B.S. in Industrial Design from KAIST where she now works for as a faculty member.
Thesis Oral Defense: Yasmine Kotturi, "Community Oriented Approaches to Building Peer Support Systems in Work"
Human-computer Interaction in Healthcare: A National Priority
Titus Schleyer, DMD, PhD, is currently Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Dental Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh. He holds DMD degrees from the University of Frankfurt, Germany, and Temple University, Philadelphia, as well as a PhD degree in molecular biology from the University of Frankfurt and an MBA degree in Health Administration from Temple University. Dr.
Being a Human Author in the Age of ChatGPT, A Conversation with the Authors of Private I
Role of games, simulation and visualization in addressing development problems in the Indian context
Dr. Eswaran Subrahmanian is a Research Professor at the ICES and EPP at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also a Visiting Honorary Professor at the International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore. He was the Chief Scientist at the Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (India, 2008–2011). He has held visiting professorships at the Faculty of Technology and Policy Management at TU-Delft (Netherlands) the University of Lyon II; and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
HCII Seminar Series -Antti Oulasvirta
Antti Oulasvirta leads the Computational Behavior Lab (cbl.aalto.fi) at Aalto University and the Interactive AI research program at FCAI (Finnish Center for AI). Prior to joining Aalto, he was a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and the Cluster of Excellence on Multimodal Computing and Interaction at Saarland University.
Collagen: Applying Collaborative Discourse Theory To Human-Computer Interaction
Dr. Rich is a Distinguished Research Scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) in Cambridge, Mass. The thread connecting all of Dr. Rich’s research has been to make interacting with a computer more like interacting with a person. As a founder and director of the Programmer’s project at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab. in the 1980s, he pioneered research on intelligent assistants for software engineering. Dr. Rich joined MERL in 1991 as a founding member of the Research Lab.