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HCII Seminar Series - Janet Vertesi
Dubbed “Margaret Mead among the Starfleet” in the Times Literary Supplement, Janet Vertesi is Associate Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. She has spent fifteen years studying NASA’s robotic spacecraft teams as a sociologist of science and technology.
Understanding Future Communication Needs: Maypole Experiences
Corporate Startup Lab Demo Day 2022
Future Directions in Portal Technology: A Large Scale Emerging Case
David Robins received Ph.D. in the Interdisciplinary Program in Information Sciences at the University of North Texas in 1998. He has an undergraduate degree in Fine Arts from Colorado State University. He taught for two years at Louisiana State University before relocating to the University of Pittsburgh (School of Information Sciences, Department of Library and Information Science) in the fall of 2000. His research interests are: information architecture, interactive information retrieval, and digital libraries.
Computer Science 5th Year Masters Presentation
Voyagers and Voyeurs: Supporting Asynchronous Collaborative Information Visualization
Jeff Heer is a Ph.D. candidate at UC Berkeley in the Computer Science Division and the Berkeley Institute of Design, where he researches various topics in human-computer interaction, particularly information visualization and social computing. His advisor is Prof. Maneesh Agrawala. Over the years, Jeff has additionally worked at Xerox PARC, IBM Research, Microsoft Research, and Tableau Software. Jeff is also the author of prefuse, an open-source framework for creating interactive visualizations.
Master of Science in Robotics Thesis Talk
Exploring How Social Identities Develop in Online Groups and Relationships
Tom Postmes is professor of social psychology at the Universities of Groningen (NL) and Exeter (UK). His research interests are group processes and communication, focusing in particular on the topics of social influence, the formation of group norms, collective action and intergroup conflict. He is an expert on the social psychological study of online groups and on the interface between social and personal identity.
Computer Science Thesis Proposal
Efficiency, Design, and Efficient Design
Philip Pavlik is a Systems Scientist in the Human Computer Interaction Institute. His work involves expertise optimization algorithms, educational data mining, basic memory processes and conceptual learning. Applications of this work include a flashcard learning systems, which allows web delivery of a variety of content using a cognitive model based algorithm to select optimal practice. He has his PhD in Cognitive Psychology, with a bachelors in Economics.
PhD Thesis Proposal: Nur Yildirim, "Discovering the Right Human Experiences to Design with Artificial Intelligence"
Feminism and HCI: Intersections and Opportunities
Shaowen Bardzell is an assistant professor in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University. She is also an affiliated faculty of the Kinsey Institute in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. Dr. Bardzell’s research centers on the theme of socio-cultural computing, with an emphasis on emotional, intimate, and embodied computing experiences. She leverages her background in the humanities to study computing in use.
HCII Ph.D. Thesis Defense: Vikram Cannanure
Toward Intuitive Design Interfaces
Ellen Yi-Luen Do is an Associate Professor of Computational Design in the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining Carnegie Mellon University, Ellen was on the faculty at University of Washington (99–04) where she co-directed the Design Machine Group, and served as Faculty Advisor for the MS program in Design Computing, and the Honors Program. Prior to UW, Ellen worked at University of Colorado at Boulder (94–99) as a researcher and lecturer for the Sundance Lab for Computing in Design and Planning. She joined Carnegie Mellon’s faculty in September 2004.