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Seminar: Oliver Haimson
Oliver Haimson is an Assistant Professor at University of Michigan School of Information and a recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award. He conducts social computing research focused on understanding and designing for social technology use during life transitions, with a primary research goal of impacting technological inclusion of marginalized users.
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Scott MacKenzie is a computer scientist specializing in human-computer interaction (especially human input to computing systems and human performance measurement and modeling). He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at York University in Toronto. MacKenzie’s research interests include human performance measurement, prediction, and modeling for human-computer interaction. Applying these to new input devices and interactive techniques for advanced computing is the primary focus of his research.
HCII PhD Thesis Proposal: Yasmine Kotturi
Thumbs Up or All Thumbs? Assessing BlackBerry Use in Law Enforcement Units
Susan Straus is a Behavioral Scientist at RAND and an adjunct Associate Professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to joining RAND, she was on the faculty in organizational behavior at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research addresses the social impacts of information and communication technologies in organizations. Specific interests include technology adoption, collaborative technologies for distributed teams, and applications of information technology in health care settings.
HCII PhD Thesis Proposal, "Privacy-Enhancing Development Environment"
Effects of Humor in Task-Oriented Human-Computer Interaction and Computer-Mediated Communication: A Direct Test of SRCT Theory
John Morkes is the Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Group at Trilogy Software, a provider of business-to-consumer and business-to-business e-commerce software. He has a Ph.D. in Communication Theory and Research from Stanford University.
Computational Biology Thesis Defense
Informal Tools for Designing Anywhere, Anytime, Anydeice User Interfaces
James Landay is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the CTO and co-founder of NetRaker, a provider of customer experience evaluation solutions for Web-based applications. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1996. His Ph.D. dissertation was the first to demonstrate the use of sketching in user interface design tools.
Special Robotics Seminar
The Catchment Feature Model for Computational Multimodal Language
Francis Quek is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Wright State University. He has formerly been affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Michigan Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM) and Hewlett-Packard Human Input Division. Francis received both his B.S.E. summa cum laude(1984) and M.S.E. (1984) in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan in two years. He completed his Ph.D. C.S.E. at the same university in 1990.
Software Research Seminar
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
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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.