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JUNETEENTH Freedom Day: Keynote Speaker and Conversation
How to educate efficiently students in low-income countries? Hidden insights from cognitive neuroscience
Helen Abadzi is an education specialist at the Education for All Fast Track Initiative (EFA FTI) secretariat. By background she is an educational psychologist with a doctorate in general-experimental psychology from the University of Texas at Arlington (1983). She has worked at the World Bank for 23 years, 14 of them at the Independent Evaluation Group. As an evaluator, Helen visited completed projects financed by the Bank in many countries and learned a lot about making instruction more efficient in the schools of the poor.
HCII Seminar Series - Lace Padilla
Dr. Lace Padilla is an Assistant Professor in the Cognitive and Information Sciences Department at the University of California Merced and was an NSF Postdoctoral Scholar at Northwestern University. Padilla is the PI and CO-PI on grants funded by NSF, DOE, and NASA. She received the best paper award at IEEE VIS 2022 and an Early Career Award from APA in 2020. In her spare time, she is a strong advocate for minoritized groups in STEM, serving on the IEEE VIS Inclusivity Committee and the Governing Board of Spark Society. She has received several grants and awards for her diversity work.
Building and Evaluating Creative Interaction
Dr. Celine Latulipe has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo in Canada. She is an Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the Department of Software and Information Systems in the College of Computing and Informatics at UNC Charlotte. Dr. Latulipe has long been fascinated by two-handed interaction in the real world, and the absence of it in the human-computer interface. She has developed numerous individual and collaborative two-handed interaction techniques and these have blossomed into a more general exploration of creative expression. Dr.
HCII PhD Thesis Defense: Lynn Kirabo, "Forging a Path Toward Equity in Smart Public Transit Systems"
Visibility: The Challenges of Seeing and Being Seen in a Networked Age (CANCELLED)
Dr. danah boyd is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, a Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a Research Fellow of the Born This Way Foundation, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales.
HCII Seminar Series - Richmond Wong
Richmond Y. Wong is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Media, and Communication. He directs the Creating Ethics Infrastructures Lab where his research seeks to create social, cultural, and organizational environments that can support technologists and designers in ethical decisionmaking. Richmond's work utilizes qualitative and design-based methods, drawing from critically-oriented human computer interaction, science & technology studies, and speculative and critical design.
The Dawning of the Age of Experience
If you’ve ever seen Jared speak about usability, you know that he’s probably the most effective, knowledgeable communicator on the subject today. What you probably don’t know is that he has guided the research agenda and built User Interface Engineering into the largest research organization of its kind in the world. He’s been working in the field of usability and design since 1978, before the term “usability” was ever associated with computers.
Final Grades Due by 4 p.m.
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Summer 2015 Registration Begins
Session Two Course Add Deadline
Thesis Proposal: Ruogu Kang
Mini-1 Course Drop and Pass/Fail Grade Option Deadline; Assign Withdrawal Grade After This Date
From Paid to Organic Crowdsourcing
Krzysztof Gajos is an associate professor of Computer Science at the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Krzysztof is broadly interested in intelligent interactive systems, a research area that bridges artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction. Recent projects pursued by his group contributed to diverse areas such as personalized adaptive user interfaces, systems for supporting collective creativity, organic crowdsourcing, large-scale experimentation in the wild, and learning technologies.
Instrumented and Connected: Designing Next-Generation Learning Experiences
Tovi Grossman is a Distinguished Research Scientist at Autodesk Research, located in downtown Toronto. Dr. Grossman’s research is in HCI, focusing on input and interaction with new technologies. In particular, he has been exploring how emerging technologies, such as wearables, the Internet of Things, and gamification can be leveraged to enhance learning and knowledge sharing for both software applications and real-world physical tasks. This work has led to a number of technologies now in Autodesk products used by millions of users, such as Autodesk Screencast and Autodesk ToolClip™ videos.
HCII PhD Thesis Proposal: Christopher MacLellan, "Computational Models of Human Learning: Applications for Tutor Development and Theory Testing
HCII PhD Thesis Defense: Jennifer Olsen
HCII PhD Communication Requirement Talks
The Design of Ethical Interfaces
Paul Pangaro’s career spans startups, consulting, research, and teaching. He studied theatre, film criticism, and computer science while earning a B.S. at MIT, spending the rest of his time acting in plays and writing software for interactive graphics and computer-generated film. On graduating Pangaro worked on neural simulations with Jerry Lettvin and then joined the research staff of Nicholas Negroponte’s Architecture Machine Group, becoming its first Ph.D. student.