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A System of Human-Robot Interfaces for Large Robot Teams
Julie A. Adams is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Vanderbilt University, where she directs the Human-Machine Teaming Laboratory. Her research focuses on distributed artificially intelligent algorithms for autonomous multiple robot coalition formation and the development of complex human-machine systems for large human and robotic teams.
Human-Computer Interaction Ph.D. Thesis Defense
Programmable Reality
Ivan Poupyrev is a Senior Researcher at Disney Research, Pittsburgh, a unit of Walt Disney Imagineering. There he directs a user interface research group that is focused on creating and investigating user interface technologies for future entertainment and digital lifestyles. Before joining Disney he spent nine years working at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, in Tokyo where he was developing tactile user interfaces, investigated shape changing devices and bendable computers.
HCII PhD F22 Semester Meeting with Geoff and Queenie (HCII PhD students only)
Exploring Impossible Spaces: Practical Illusions in Virtual Reality
I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies, under the supervision of Mark Bolas. I received my Ph.D. in 2010 from the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. My dissertation, completed under the supervision of Larry F.
HCII PhD Thesis Defense: Stephanie Valencia Valencia
More information as the event nears.
Multitasking, interruptions, and the inevitable problems that follow
Duncan Brumby is a senior lecturer (associate professor) at University College London in the UCL Interaction Centre, and is currently on sabbatical at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to joining UCL in 2007, he was an associate research scientist at Drexel University in the Department of Computer Science, and he received his PhD in experimental psychology from Cardiff University in 2005. Dr. Brumby’s research lies at the intersection of human-computer interaction and cognitive science.
HCII Ph.D. Thesis Defense: Huy Nguyen
THESIS PROPOSAL: Yanjin Long
Exploring the Universe with Immersive Virtual Reality
Dr. Scott Davidoff is the Human Interfaces Manager at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab. He is responsible for design and implementation of all end-user facing software used to command and control JPL spacecraft. Dr. Davidoff is principal investigator for NASA's Space Networking and Mission Automation program, and co-founder of the JPL / Caltech / Art Center Data-to-Discovery program. He serves on steering committees for NASAm the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, and the Association for Computing Machinery.
Mid-Semester Grades Due by 4 p.m.
Mini-4 Course Add Deadline
Session Two Classes Begin
Spring 2015 Registration Week
Labor Day; No Classes
Thesis Defense: James Pierce
Embodied Empathic Agents - Just What Tutoring Systems Need?
Professor Aylett researches affective agent architectures, intelligent graphical characters and social robots among other topics. She has led and taken part in a succession of mostly European-funded projects in these areas, with a number of educational applications, such as the FearNot! anti-bullying system, the Traveller system for teaching inter-cultural sensitive, and the EMOTE empathic robot tutor.
PhD Thesis Proposal: Brandon Taylor, "Towards the Automatic Translation of American Sign Language"
Blindspot Detection, an Unconscious Bias Workshop
HCI Behind the Hospital Doors: EHR Challenges and Human Machine-Learning Interaction
Dr. Susan Harkness Regli is the human factors scientist in the Clinical Effectiveness and Quality Improvement department of the University of Pennsylvania Health System. As part of the Penn Value Improvement effort, she works closely with clinical informatics specialists and the Chief Medical Information Officer to promote best practices in human-computer interaction design and usability for health information technology.