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Mini-1 Final Grades Due by 4 p.m.
Thesis Defense: Sunyoung Kim
CANCELLED - HCII Seminar Series: Kellee Santiago
HCII Postdoctoral Fellow Short Talks 3
Zhen Bai: Zhen Bai is a post-doctoral fellow at the ArticuLab. She leads the Sensing Curiosity in Play and Responding (SCIPR) project, which focuses on exploring the design space of playful learning environments that foster curiosity, exploration and self-efficacy for science education. Zhen is passionate to design innovative interfaces that augment our cognitive, emotional and social experiences in a playful and accessible way.
Crowdsourcing Lunch Seminar: Kurt Luther
Supporting People with Low Vision with Augmented Reality
Shiri Azenkot is an Assistant Professor of Information Science at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech, Cornell University.4 Minute Madness (Faculty research talks)
PhD Thesis Proposal: Siyan Zhao, "Behavioral Pathways Linking Social Interactions to Mental Health"
PhD Thesis Defense: Nathan Hahn
Visual/Verbal Collaborative Design: A Conceptual Framework for the Study of Cross-modal Communication
Susan Hagan recently completed her Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Carnegie Mellon University where she also received her Masters of Design. She focuses her research interests on the interaction of visual and verbal concepts as interdependent contributors in the shaping of audience experience. She has presented on this topic at conferences and in proceedings sponsored by design and rhetorical societies and was an invited commentator to the Design Research News On-line Conference, “Design in the University.” She is presently editing her dissertation for design and rhetorical publications.
Seminar: Ayanna M Howard
Dr. Ayanna Howard is the newly appointed Dean for the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University. Previously, she was the Linda J. and Mark C. Smith Professor in Bioengineering and Chair of the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She also held a faculty appointment in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Partnership on AI and Autodesk.
Can Privacy be Free?
John Canny is the Paul and Stacy Jacobs Distinguished Professor of Engineering. His research is in human-computer interaction, with an emphasis on modeling methods (usually probabilistic) and privacy approaches using cryptography. He received his Ph.D. in 1987 at the MIT AI Lab. His dissertation on Robot Motion Planning received the ACM dissertation award. He received a Packard Foundation Faculty Fellowship and a Presidential Young Investigator Award.
HCII PhD Thesis Defense: Michael L. Rivera, "Digital Fabrication Techniques for 3D Printing with Everyday Materials"
Human-Guided Search
Joe Marks grew up in Dublin, Ireland, before emigrating to the U.S. to attend college. He holds three degrees from Harvard University. His areas of interest include computer graphics, human-computer interaction, and artificial intelligence. He has worked previously at Bolt Beranek and Newman and at Digital’s Cambridge Research Laboratory. He was Research Director at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) from 2000–2006. He is the recent past chair of ACM SIGART, and the conference chair for SIGGRAPH 2007.
Robotics Ph.D. Speaking Qualifier
Creating virtual proximity to support interpersonal relationships: A case study of chatroom interaction
Susan Fussell has been a system scientist in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon since 1997. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Columbia University in 1990. Her previous positions include member of technical staff in the Interpersonal Communications Group at Bellcore and an assistant professorship in the Psychology Department at Mississippi State University. Dr. Fussell’s research interests include face-to-face and computer-mediated communication, shared mental models in work groups, and the communication of affect and emotion.
Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship: 2022 Innovation Commercialization Fellows Program
Defining Experience in a Virtual Business
Shannon Ford is an experience strategist and interaction designer in Chicago, IL. She most recently worked for Scient, where she developed eBusiness strategy and led design teams. She worked previously as an Innovator at E-Lab, where she led teams conducting qualitative user research for various kinds of consumer products. She has a Masters of Interaction Design from Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Design.
Human-Computer Interaction Ph.D. Thesis Proposal
The Design Paradox—and the nature of design research
Erik Stolterman is Professor and Director of the HCI/design program at School of Informatics, Indiana University, Bloomington. Stolterman’s research is within interaction design, information technology and society, information systems design, philosophy of design, and philosophy of technology. Stolterman has published his work in articles and five books, for instance Thoughtful Interaction Design (2004, MIT Press) and The Design Way (ITP, 2003).