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A Time Travel interface for Data Exploration and Selective Undo/Redo
Mark Derthick is a Project Scientist in CMU’s Visualization and Intelligent Interfaces Lab. His interests include Human-Information Interaction, Visual Data Mining, and organization of personal or group multi-media data stream. In support of these interests he has developed a visual query language that is integrated into a direct manipulation data exploration environment. It uses data structures developed for data mining in order to maintain interactivity with datasets of up to a million objects. Previously Dr.
Master of Computational Data Science: MCDS Capstone Poster Sessions
User Experience and Interaction Design: Stories from the trenches
Marc Rettig has led a high-profile career that spans 20 years, holding influential roles in a number of corporate, academic, editorial and start-up efforts. As chief experience officer at Hanna Hodge, Marc was responsible for overseeing the firm’s “Experience Engine,” which included user-centered process, culture, and advanced initiatives.
Master of Computer Science Thesis Defense
Computer Vision Topics for Interaction
Martial Hebert is a professor at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. His interests include computer vision, especially object recognition, scene understanding, and video analysis, processing of 3-D data for building 3-D models, recognizing objects, and for autonomous navigation, and perception for autonomous mobile systems. His current projects include the development of techniques for recognizing image categories in images, for detecting common events in video sequences, and for building 3-D representation of dynamic environments for unmanned mobile systems.
Graphics Seminar
Engaging Collaborative Learners with Helping Agents
Carolyn Rose is an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment between the Language Technologies Institute and the Human-Computer Interaction Institute. The driving question behind her research is how to develop technology capable of both shaping conversation and supporting conversation to achieve a positive impact on human learning.
AI for Teachers
Bi-directional time travel and other explorations at IBM
Bonnie E. John is a Professor in the HCI Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. A founding member of the HCII, her raison d'être is to “beat psychology into a shape that engineers can use.” To that end, she produces theories and frameworks to predict human performance on computer-based systems before they are built and embodies these in tools that UI designers and software engineers can easily learn and use in their development process.
HCII PhD Fall 2022 Evaluation Meeting (Faculty only)
Media, Meaning and Computation: Expressive Intelligence and the Future of Playable Media
Dr. Mateas is recognized internationally as a leader in AI-based interactive storytelling. He is currently a faculty member in the Computer Science department at UC Santa Cruz, where he holds the MacArthur Endowed Chair. He founded and co-directs the Expressive Intelligence Studio, one of the largest technical game research groups in the world, and is also the founding director of the Center for Games and Playable Media at UC Santa Cruz.
HCII Ph.D. Thesis Proposal: Alex Cabrera
Mobilizing Support through Facebook
Cliff Lampe is an Associate Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Previously, he was also in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University. In his research, he focuses on how social and technical systems interact to enable people to collaborate, particularly around collective action efforts. In his research, he has worked with sites like Slashdot, Wilkipedia, Everything2, SourceForge and Facebook. In addition, he has done work creating online communities in coordination with public sector groups.
HCII Ph.D. Thesis Proposal: Humphrey Yang
Thesis Proposal: Ruogu Kang
Enabling Creativity Through Better Tools for Designers and Developers
Joel Brandt is a Senior Research Scientist and Engineering Manager at Adobe Research. He is a Human-Computer Interaction researcher who studies how improved tools can help designers and developers be more creative and productive. His research has informed the design of numerous widely used tools, including Generator for Adobe Photoshop (http://bit.ly/psgenerator) and the Brackets code editor (http://brackets.io). Joel completed his Ph.D. in the Human-Computer Interaction Group at Stanford University in 2010.