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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.
HCII & ISR Summer REU Poster Presentations
HCII Thesis Proposal: "Personal 3D Printing: Material Techniques and Processes for Human Interaction and Use"
Making Pervasive Computing Friendly and Intuitive
Scott E. Fahlman is a Research Professor in Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science, where he has been on the faculty since 1978. His primary departments are LTI and CSD, with affiliations in HCII and CALD. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1977.
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.
Character-level Error Analysis for Text Entry
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.