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HCII Ph.D. Thesis Proposal: Hyeonsu Kang (Remote)
Engaging with Users on Public Social Media
Jeffrey Nichols is a Research Staff Member and Manager of the Social Media and Crowd Research group at IBM Research - Almaden. He leads research efforts on crowdsourcing, social media analysis and social engagement. He joined IBM in 2006 after receiving his Ph.D. from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science. He has worked in the areas of mobile computing, automated design, and end-user programming.
HCII Ph.D. Thesis Proposal: Jason Wu
Dream Worlds: Imagining the Worlds of Walden and The Night Journey
Tracy is an experimental game designer and Chair of the Interactive Media Division at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where she directs the Game Innovation Lab. This design research center has produced several influential independent games, including Cloud, flOw, Darfur is Dying, The Misadventures of P.B.
When New Technology Is Old: Organizing Surgery in the Face of Legacy Robotic Surgical Systems
I am a fifth year doctoral student at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and I study real-world use of robotics in skilled, collective work. I ask questions like: How are robots actually involved in work? What can we do with them that we couldn't before? What might we lose? What does all this mean for organizations? Before coming to MIT for my doctorate, I spent 9 years as a principal consultant in a firm of organizational psychologists. We specialized in helping teams discuss touchy topics productively.
THESIS DEFENSE: Haiyi Zhu
Mini-3 Final Grades Due by 4 p.m.
Session One Classes Begin
Makeup Final Examinations
CHI 2022
The international ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (also known as CHI) begins this week.
Mini-1 Course Add Deadline
Thesis Defense: James Pierce
Making "Making" Accessible
Amy Hurst is an associate professor of Human-Centered Computing in the Information Systems Department at UMBC and studies accessibility challenges in real-world settings. Her research focuses on addressing accessibility problems understanding diverse user’s abilities, habits, and preferences.
3D Printing Summit
Morphing Matter: Designing Bioinspired Transformative Materials and Interfaces
Lining Yao is an Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science. She is the founding director of the Morphing Matter Lab. By developing transformative and adaptive materials, the lab desi
From personal informatics to personal analytics: personalized decision-support in health
Dr. Lena Mamykina is a Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. Dr. Mamykina’s research resides in the areas of Biomedical Informatics, Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing, and Computer-Supported Collaborative Work. Her broad research interests include individual and collective cognition, sensemaking, and problem-solving in the context of health and wellness.
Asocial Design Yields Antisocial Agents
Dr. Megan Strait is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley where she leads the Social Systems (SOSY) Lab. Drawing upon an interdisciplinary background in cognitive science, computer science, and psychology, her research addresses the less positivistic side of human-agent interaction dynamics to bear out both aesthetic and architectural design guidelines for socially oriented technologies.
HCII PhD Thesis Proposal, "Building Better Behavioral Measurement Models from Fine-Grained Data with AI"
Tag, You’re It: Game Designers Play Leapfrog with Design and Technology
Dave Kanter comes from a background reaching back to the “pre-Netscape” days of web site and interactive development. He has worked for a number of prestigious companies as a freelance consultant in technology development, production development, programming, project management, and production. Dave is currently a member of the Full-time Faculty of the Design and Technology department at Parsons School of Design, where he mostly teaches classes related to computer programming—although he’s been known to hold forth on a range of subjects.
Seminar: Morgan Ames
Morgan G. Ames researches the ideological origins of inequality in the technology world, with a focus on utopianism, childhood, and learning. The questions that drive her current projects concern the ways in which young people construct their identities with computers, and how computers (and the technology design practices that produced them) shape the identities they construct.