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Automating & Customizing the Web with Keyword Programming
Rob Miller is an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002, and his dissertation earned the CMU SCS Distinguished Dissertation award and received an honorable mention in the ACM Distinguished Dissertation competition. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2005. His research interests span human-computer interaction, user interfaces, software engineering, and artificial intelligence.
Language Technologies Ph.D. Thesis Defense
On Hiring Design Graduates; or, how to graduate from the HCII and get a sweet job making boatloads of money and building really cool products
Jon Kolko is an associate creative director at frog design in Austin, TX. His professional work involves the synthesis of complicated business and technological constraints in order to best solve the problems of Fortune 500 clients. The work spans the boundaries of information architecture, interaction design and usability engineering; the common underlying theme of these problems and projects is the creation of a solution that is useful, usable, and desirable.
SHPE 2022 National Convention
Collective Intelligence in Human Groups
Anita Williams Woolley is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory at the Tepper School of Business. She has a PhD in Organizational Behavior from Harvard University, where she also earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. At the Tepper School of Business, she teaches MBA and undergraduate courses on managing groups and teams in organizations.
HCII PhD Communication Requirement talks
Modern Craft: Locating the Material in a Digital Age
Daniela Rosner is a PhD Candidate at the School of Information at UC Berkeley. Her research combines design, computing and fieldwork to reveal the social conditions and cultural values that shape and are shaped by digital technology. She has worked in design research at Microsoft Research, Adobe Systems, Nokia Research and as an exhibit designer at several museums, including the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum. Most recently, Daniela developed a graduate interaction design studio that she taught at the California College of the Arts (CCA). She holds a B.F.A.
HCII PhD Comm Talks - NSH & Tepper
Designing an Incentive Mechanism for Encouraging Participation in an Online Community
Julita Vassileva received her Ph.D in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Sofia, Bulgaria. She has worked as research associate at the Institute of Mathematics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and at the Federal Armed Forces University in Munich, Germany. She moved to Canada in 1997 and she is currently an associate professor at the Computer Science Department at the University of Saskatchewan.
Ph.D. Thesis Proposal: Eliane Stampfer Wiese
Mini-4 Classes Begin
Graduate Mini-3 Exam Days
Session One Course Drop Deadline to Receive Tuition Adjustment
Semester Course Drop Deadline to Receive Tuition Adjustment
Graduate Mini-1 Exam Days
Playing with the Senses
Heather Kelley (@PerfectPlum) is an award-winning game designer, media artist, and curator. Heather is a founder of the experimental game collective Kokoromi, with whom she produced and curated the renowned GAMMA event promoting experimental games as creative expression in a social context. She was named by Fast Company magazine as one of 2011’s thirty most influential women in technology. In 2012, she co-curated Joue le jeu, a groundbreaking 5000 m2 exhibition of video games and commissioned play installations in Paris, France. Ms.
Special HCI Seminar: Finding Gender-Inclusiveness Software Issues in the Real World with GenderMag
Margaret Burnett is an OSU Distinguished Professor at Oregon State University. She began her career in industry, where she was the first woman software developer ever hired at Procter & Gamble Ivorydale. A few degrees and start-ups later, she joined academia, with a research focus on people who are engaged in some form of software development. She leads the team that created GenderMag, a software inspection process that uncovers gender inclusiveness issues in software from spreadsheets to programming environments. Burnett is an ACM Distinguished Scientist a
Achieving Real Virtuality: Closing the Gap Between the Digital and the Physical
Daniel Wigdor is an associate professor of computer science and co-director of the Dynamic Graphics Project at the University of Toronto.