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THESIS DEFENSE: Stephen Oney

Expressing Interactivity with States and Constraints Stephen Oney COMMITTEE Brad Myers (Chair) Joel Brandt (Adobe...

Mini-5 Course Withdrawal Grade Deadline

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Thanksgiving Holiday; No Classes

Thesis Defense: William Odom

THESIS DEFENSE Critically Exploring the Virtual Possession Design Space through Fieldwork and Constructive Design Research...

HCII PhD Thesis Proposal: Nesra Yannier

THESIS PROPOSAL Bridging Physical and Virtual Learning: A Mixed-Reality System for Early Science Nesra Yannier...

Ph.D. Open House for Accepted Students

More information regarding the HCII Ph.D. open house for accepted students will be available closer...

Crowdsourcing Lunch Seminar: Michael Franklin

Michael Franklin

Design at the Interface

Daniel Cardoso Llach

Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University

At the dawn of the information age Herbert Simon advanced a view of design as...

Can I Use That?! Ethics, Law, and Norms for Other People’s Data

Casey Lynn Fiesler

Assistant Professor of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder

Your tweets, blog posts, photos, reviews, and dating profiles are all potentially being used for...

Cautionary Tales and Better Futures for Social Technologies

John Cain

Visiting Professor, Institute of Design in Chicago

This talk will explore the "human" in HCI, and offer ways to bring what people...

PhD Thesis Defense, "Human-AI Systems for Visual Information Access"

Anhong Guo

Committee: Jeffrey Bigham, HCII and LTI, CMU (Chair) Chris Harrison, HCII, CMU Jodi Forlizzi, HCII...

Some History and a Biased Perspective of Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Dexter Fletcher

Institute for Defense Analyses

This presentation traces design strategies and functional capabilities in computer based instructional systems from some...

HCII PhD Thesis Proposal: "Understanding hybridity in social movements through the dramaturgical lens"

Judeth Oden Choi

"Understanding hybridity in social movements through the dramaturgical lens" Committee: Jodi Forlizzi (HCII, CMU, Co-chair)...

Personalized access to information with social navigation support

Peter Brusilovsky

Assistant Professor of Information Science & Intelligent Systems, University of Pittsburgh and Adjunct Research Scientist, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

The focus of the talk is a promising personalization approach that we call social navigation...

HCII Seminar Series - Leah Buechley

Leah Buechley

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico

"Hand and Machine" I believe that by making technology more accessible and building artifacts that...

The Pragmatics of Deep Change—An HCI Case Study

Peter Lucas

MAYA Design

The business literature is replete with case studies on the effects of so-called “disruptive technologies”—innovations...

Celebration of Education

Celebrate Our SCS and All Recipients!

The Celebration of Education Awards program recognizes the accomplishments of those who exemplify the university's...

Knowledge in the making: technology-based representational scaffolding during scientific inquiry

Eva Erdosne Toth

Senior Research Associate, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University

The ubiquitous use of technological tools makes external representation of thinking—such as tables, graphs, text...

Language Technologies Ph.D. Thesis Proposal

HAI PHAM

Ph.D. Student
Language Technologies Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

Nowadays with the deluge of big data, it becomes more and more challenging for institutions...