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HCII Ph.D. Thesis Defense: Alex Cabrera
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HCII Seminar: Yao Cheng
Thesis Proposal: Rebecca Gulotta
Mini-3 Course Withdrawal Grade Deadline
Session Two Course Drop Deadline to Receive Tuition Adjustment
Mini-1 Final Grades Due by 4 p.m.
Thesis Defense: Sunyoung Kim
test event by shiyi
Ph.D. Open House for Accepted Students
Crowdsourcing Lunch Seminar: Michael Franklin
Design at the Interface
Daniel Cardoso Llach is Assistant Professor in the Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture. His recent work includes the book Builders of the Vision: Software and the Imagination of Design (Routledge, 2015), which identifies and documents the theories of design emerging from postwar technology projects at MIT, and traces critically their architectural repercussions. His writings have been published in journals including Design Issues, Architectural Research Quarterly (ARQ), and Thresholds, among others, and in several edited collections.
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.