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Understanding and Reducing the User Burdens Associated with Interactive Technologies for Health and Wellbeing
Julie A. Kientz is an Assistant Professor in the department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in The Information School and Computer Science & Engineering and is active in the Design, Use, Build (dub) alliance. Dr. Kientz’s primary research areas are in the fields of Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, and Health Informatics.
HCII Ph.D. Thesis Defense: Alexandria K. Vail
HCII Seminar Series: Yao Cheng
Humanizing the Enterprise: Delivering Best in Class Experience to Business Software Users
Janaki Kumar is the Head of Strategic Design Services, America in SAP’s Design and Co-Innovation Center. She leads a team of designers who work directly with customers to transform their user experience. She has over a decade of experience building, coaching, and leading high performance teams to deliver design-led innovation. She is the co-author of the book, Gamification at Work – Designing Engaging Business Software. She has given a TEDx talk on Gamification at Work. Janaki has a Masters in Information Systems from Boston University.
Mid-Semester Break; No Classes (Mini-3 undergraduate exams will take place)
Mini-5 Course Drop or Pass/Fail Grade Deadline; Assign Withdrawal Grade After This Date
Semester Course Drop Deadline to Receive Tuition Adjustment
Mid-Semester Break; No Classes (Mini-1 exams will take place)
Mid-Semester Grades Due by 4 p.m.
Test Seminar
Design at Large: Real-World, Large Scale, and Sometimes Disruptive
PhD Thesis Proposal, "The Influence of Cuturally-Aligned Educational Technology on Student Performance and Social Behavior"
HHI Board Game Meetup
Synthetic Teammates
Dr. Myers received his PhD in cognitive science from Rensselaer under the mentorship of Dr. Wayne Gray. Following school, he was a postdoctoral scholar at Arizona State University with Dr. Nancy Cooke where they collaborated with members of the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop a synthetic teammate capable of completing a remotely piloted aerial system reconnaissance task with human team members. Dr.
The case for self-sovereign personal AI
Adrian Gropper, MD is CTO of the non-profit Patient Privacy Rights Foundation where he brings training as an engineer from MIT and physician from Harvard Medical School followed by a career as a medical device entrepreneur. He founded three regulated medical diagnostics businesses including AMICAS, the first Web-based radiology image network and the first to provide imaging links in electronic health records.
HCII PhD Thesis Defense: "Value-Adaptive Instruction: Improving the Productivity of Civil Discourse and Addressing Bias
What a To-Do: Studies of Task Management Towards the Design of a Personal Task List Manager
Victoria Bellotti is a Senior Member of Research Staff in the Computer Science Lab at PARC. She studies current and prospective technology users to understand their work-practice, their problems and their requirements for future technology. She also designs novel systems and works on analyzing existing or proposed technology design for utility and usability and on finding ways to improve them. Victoria is a co-inventor on numerous pending patent applications for user-centered systems.
Seminar: Timnit Gebru
Until she recently got fired, Timnit Gebru co-lead the Ethical Artificial Intelligence research team at Google, working to reduce the potential negative impacts of AI. Timnit earned her doctorate under the supervision of Fei-Fei Li at Stanford University in 2017 and did a postdoc at Microsoft Research NYC in the FATE team. She is also the cofounder of Black in AI, a place for sharing ideas, fostering collaborations and discussing initiatives to increase the presence of Black people in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
Contact Feeds: Bringing Transparency to Corporate Instant Messaging through RSS
Eric Wilcox is a designer, developer, researcher, and strategist. He has spent the last 4 years in the IBM TJ Watson Research Collaborative User Experience Group where he has led innovative research and forged relationships between research and product. His design communication resulted in the successful tech and conceptual transfer of ideas on the Reinventing Email project. Eric’s early conceptual development and prototypes around weblogs, workflow, and syndication have helped drive strategy for Lotus Development into new and emerging technologies.
HCII Seminar Series - Tom Hope
Tom Hope is a postdoctoral researcher at The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) and The University of Washington, working with Daniel Weld on accelerating scientific discovery and closely collaborating with Eric Horvitz, CSO at Microsoft. Tom completed his PhD with Dafna Shahaf at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in January 2020.