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Ethical Engagement and the Dark Side of User Experience Design

Colin Gray

Assistant Professor of Computer Graphics Technology, Purdue University

The profession of user experience (UX) design has rapidly expanded in the past decade, impacting...

PhD Thesis Proposal: Nicholas Diana, "Value-Adaptive Instruction for Promoting More Productive Civil Discourse"

Nicholas Diana

Committee: Kenneth Koedinger, Co-Chair (HCII, CMU) John Stamper, Co-Chair (HCII, CMU) Jessica Hammer, (HCII &...

PhD Thesis Defense: Qian Yang, "Understanding Artificial Intelligence as a Material for User Experience Design"

Committee: John Zimmerman, Co-Chair (HCII, CMU) Aaron Steinfeld, Co-Chair (RI, CMU) Carolyn Rosé (LTI &...

Toontown Online -- Designing Massively Multiplayer Games for the Masses

Jesse Schell

Professor of Entertainment Technology, Carnegie Mellon University

It is quite possible that Massively Multiplayer (MMP) games will be the killer app that...

Seminar: Andrea G. Parker

Andrea G. Parker

Associate Professor, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech

"Community Wellness Informatics: Designing Technology for Health Equity" In the United States, there are serious...

Intelligent Supportive Environments for Older Adults

Alex Mihailidis

Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Toronto

Older adults constitute the fastest growing population group in Canada. As such, finding ways of...

HCII PhD Thesis Proposal: Yasmine Kotturi

Yasmine Kotturi

"(Co-)Designing an Inclusive Future of Work" Committee: Chinmay Kulkarni (chair), Carnegie Mellon University Sarah Fox...

Explorations of the Effects of Distance on Group Work Using Organizational Simulations and Agent-based Modeling

Judith S. Olson

Richard W. Pew Professor of Human Computer Interaction, University of Michigan

The internet has made it possible for teams to conduct their work without having to...

The Leap to Efficiency: The Impacts of Peer Observation

S. Camille Peres

Assistant Professor, Psychology Department, University of Houston

Although previous research shows that software is often used inefficiently, little is known about the...

SCS DEI Seminar: Data-Driven Diversity with Kody Manke and Kevin Jarbo

Kody Manke, Psychology Department and Kevin Jarbo, Social and Decision Sciences

Both are CMU Faculty

Shared-browser interface for collaborative environments

Manu Kumar

Founder, President and CEO of SneakerLabs, Inc.

Several years and years of research have gone into designing “usable” collaborative environments. There have...

Computational Biology Thesis Defense

MARIA KORSHUNOVA

Ph.D. Candidate
Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology
Department of Computational Biology
Carnegie Mellon University

This thesis describes novel deep generative neural networks and their applications for the de-novo design...

Designing Pleasurable Products—Holistic Design Now and For The Future

Patrick W. Jordan

Head of the Contemporary Trends Institute (CTI)

How can we design pleasurable products, considering dimensions other than product usability? My talk will...

Robotics Ph.D. Speaking Qualifier

SUDEEP DASARI

Ph.D. Student
Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

In this talk I'll describe how recent advances in neural rendering and novel view synthesis...

Artifacts and Coordination in High-Stake Environments

Yan Xiao

Director of Human Factors & Technology Research, School of Medicine, University of Maryland

This presentation will first present a phenomenology of coordination in a high-stake environment: a trauma...

IDeaS Seminar

EMERSON T. BROOKING

Senior Fellow
Digital Forensic Research Lab of the Atlantic Council

As public awareness of foreign influence operations has grown, so have efforts to describe and...

Creating Effective Decision Aids for Complex Tasks

Caroline Hayes

Professor, University of Minnesota

Rapid, high quality product design is essential for competitiveness in the global economy. For many...

Crypto Seminar

YUNCONG HU

Ph.D. Student, Computer Science
Electrical Engineering Computer Science Department
University of California, Berkeley

We introduce a new class of succinct arguments, that we call elastic. Elastic SNARKs allow...