Past Seminars
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September 15, 2017 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm |
Practical Learning Research at Scale (and Relevance to HCI Education) | Ken Koedinger Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
Massive scale education has emerged through online tools such as Wikipedia, Khan Academy, and MOOCs. The number of students being reached is...... Full Details |
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September 8, 2017 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm |
HCII Seminar Series: Post-Doc Talks | Paulo Carvalho, Irene-Angelica Chounta, Patrick Carrington, Sang-Won Bae Post-Doctoral Researchers, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
Speaker 1: Paulo Carvalho Talk Title: Beyond reading in educational contexts: Spending more time...... Full Details |
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September 1, 2017 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm |
Morphing Matter: Designing Bioinspired Transformative Materials and Interfaces |
Lining Yao
Assistant Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
Technology, one might claim, is designed to recapitulate biology: as we strive to design physical objects and architecture that are...... Full Details |
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June 2, 2017 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm |
Tracking Behavioral Symptoms of Mental Health and Delivering Personalized Interventions Using Mobile and Wearable Devices | Tanzeem Choudhury Associate Professor, Computing and Information Systems, Cornell University | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
Mobile and ubiquitous computing research has led to new techniques for cheaply, accurately, and continuously...... Full Details |
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May 5, 2017 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm |
All the World's a Stage: Mobile Computing Across Multiple Contexts to Support Science On-The-Go | Chris Quintana Associate Professor in Educational Studies, School of Education, University of Michigan | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
As computing devices continue to evolve from personal computers to mobile and wearable technologies, new learning opportunities are opening up....... Full Details |
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April 28, 2017 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm |
Deception and Trust in a Post-Truth World | Jeff Hancock Professor, Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, Stanford University | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
How is the rewiring of communication in the network age changing how we deceive and trust one another? How can we trust that news story, or a...... Full Details |
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April 14, 2017 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm |
TALK CANCELED: How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design | Katherine Isbister Professor, Computational Media Department, University of California Santa Cruz | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
Designers know games can evoke empathy and intense connection. But everyday non-expert conversations about games still rarely touch on this truth...... Full Details |
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April 7, 2017 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm |
The Challenges and Opportunities for Real-time Ridesharing Services to Address Unemployment Barriers Among Low-Resourced Populations | Tawanna Dillahunt Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
Improved transportation is a key predictor for upward economic mobility, and the relationship between transportation and economic mobility is...... Full Details |
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March 31, 2017 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm |
Innovators and their Others: Entrepreneurial Citizenship in Transnational India | Lilly Irani Assistant Professor of Communication & Science Studies, University of California San Diego | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
This talk focuses on how valorized forms of work become models of citizenship. Today, the halls of TED and Davos reverberate with optimism that ...... Full Details |
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March 24, 2017 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm |
CANCELED: Tracking Behavioral Symptoms of Mental Health and Delivering Personalized Interventions Using Mobile and Wearable Devices | Tanzeem Choudhury Associate Professor, Computing and Information Sciences, Cornell University | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
CANCELED: Mobile and ubiquitous computing research has led to new techniques for cheaply, accurately, and continuously collecting data on human...... Full Details |
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March 3, 2017 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm |
Predictive Interaction | Jeffrey Heer Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
How might we architect interactive systems that have better models of the tasks we're trying to perform, learn over time, help refine ambiguous...... Full Details |
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February 24, 2017 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm |
Asking Technology: A Step Too Far or Not Far Enough? | Yvonne Rogers Director, UCL Interaction Centre, University College London | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
Much of HCI research involves asking people questions, either through interviews, surveys, design sessions, evaluation studies, voting, polling...... Full Details |
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February 17, 2017 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm |
Achieving Real Virtuality: Closing the Gap Between the Digital and the Physical | Daniel Wigdor | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
As digital interaction spreads to an increasing number of devices, direct physical manipulation has become the dominant metaphor in HCI. The...... Full Details |
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February 10, 2017 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm |
In A Flash: Crowdsourcing Organizations, Collaborations, and Research |
Michael Bernstein
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
Crowdsourcing envisions computational systems that enable complex collective achievements. However, today's crowdsourcing techniques are limited...... Full Details |
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February 3, 2017 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm |
Participatory Design as a Practice in the Learning Sciences | Betsy N. Disalvo Assistant Professor, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
The goal of the learning sciences is to not only understand the phenomena of learning, but also to impact educational practices and enable more...... Full Details |
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January 20, 2017 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm |
Aesthetics of Intelligence: Designing User Experience for Systems of Smart Things | Lin-Lin Chen Professor, Industrial and Commercial Design, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
The vision of a smart environment, where invisible technologies seamlessly support people’s daily activities, is closer to becoming reality. After...... Full Details |
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January 12, 2017 - 10:30am to 11:30am |
Instrumented and Connected: Designing Next-Generation Learning Experiences | Tovi Grossman | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
The history of computing is rich with examples of how computers, among their many purposes, serve as tools which enhance our ability to learn. As...... Full Details |
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December 2, 2016 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm |
Unlocking Data, Unlocking Interaction |
James Fogarty
Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
The applications we create are framed by the tools we use to create them. On one hand, tools codify effective practice and empower design. On the...... Full Details |
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November 18, 2016 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm |
From Typing Without Looking to Communicating With the Eyes | Khai N Truong Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Toronto | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
Text entry is an important form of input regularly performed by computer users. However, there are many situations in which users might not...... Full Details |
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November 11, 2016 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm |
Architecting Interactivity: How Experiments in Architecture, Cybernetics & AI Poured the Foundations of Interaction Design | Molly Steenson Associate Professor, School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
Inspired by cybernetics and artificial intelligence researchers who modeled intelligence in hardware and software, architects in the 1960s and 70s...... Full Details |
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November 4, 2016 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm |
Making "Making" Accessible | Amy Hurst Associate Professor, Information Systems Department, UMBC | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
Assistive Technologies empower individuals to accomplish tasks they might not be able to do otherwise. Unfortunately, a large percentage of...... Full Details |
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October 28, 2016 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm |
How UX Techniques Promote Simulation Software for Everyone |
Imran Riaz with guest Jared Pryor
Manager of User Experience, ANSYS Inc. |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
At ANSYS, we create simulation software that is a key component of the product development process, helping to validate the effectiveness of...... Full Details |
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October 21, 2016 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm |
HCII Postdoctoral Fellow Short Talks 3 | Zhen Bai, Soniya Gadgil-Sharma, Hernisa Kacorri Post-Doctoral Fellows, HCII, Carnegie Mellon University | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
Speaker: Zhen Bai Title: Fostering Curiosity Through Peer Support in Collaborative...... Full Details |
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October 7, 2016 - 2:30pm to 3:30pm |
Design at Large: Real-World, Large Scale, and Sometimes Disruptive | Scott Klemmer Associate Professor, Cognitive Science and Computer Science & Engineering, UC San Diego | Newell-Simon Hall 3305 |
Over the past five years, my group—and probably many of you—have experienced a dramatically-increased ability to do Design at Large: creating...... Full Details |
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September 30, 2016 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm |
Embodied Empathic Agents - Just What Tutoring Systems Need? | Ruth Aylett Professor of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
Embodied empathic agents are characters that, by their actions and behaviours, are able to show empathy (or not) for other characters; and/or...... Full Details |
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September 23, 2016 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm |
Social Capital as a Concept in Human-Computer Interaction - From Bowling Together to Friendsourcing |
Cliff Lampe
Associate Professor, University of Michigan School of Information |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
Social capital is a construct describing the resources one can draw from social network connections. This talk will describe social capital as a...... Full Details |
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September 16, 2016 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm |
Post-Doc Short Talks 2 | Michael Eagle, Swarup Kumar Sahoo, Ran Liu Postdoctoral Researchers, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
Speaker: Michael Eagle Title: Predicting Individual Differences for Learner Modeling in Intelligent...... Full Details |
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September 2, 2016 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm |
Post-Doc Short Talks 1 | Sangwon Bae, Joel Chan, Irene-Angelica Chounta Postdoctoral Researchers, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
Speaker: Joel Chan Title: Accelerating innovation with computational analogy: Challenges and new...... Full Details |
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August 18, 2016 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm |
Instrumented and Connected: Designing Next-Generation Learning Experiences | Tovi Grossman Distinguished Research Scientist, Autodesk | Newell-Simon Hall 1507 |
Today, we are moving faster than ever towards Weiser’s seminal vision of technology being woven into the fabric of our everyday lives. Not only...... Full Details |
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April 29, 2016 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm |
Collaborative News: From “Narcotweets” to Journalism-as-a-Service | Andrés Monroy-Hernández Affiliate Professor, University of Washington | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
How do people living in the midst of war use social media, and what can we learn from them to design the next generation of news technologies? In...... Full Details |
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April 22, 2016 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm |
"Primordial", Ecological Design and the Nature of Things | Mickey McManus Research Fellow, Office of the CTO, Autodesk | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
In his current research project, “Primordial," Mickey McManus and his team are exploring the impact on design when three inevitable technology...... Full Details |
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April 12, 2016 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm |
Special HCI Seminar: Finding Gender-Inclusiveness Software Issues in the Real World with GenderMag | Margaret Burnett Distinguished Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University | Gates-Hillman Center 4405 |
Gender inclusiveness in computing settings is receiving a lot of attention, but one potentially critical factor has mostly been overlooked:...... Full Details |
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April 8, 2016 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm |
CANCELLED - HCII Seminar Series: Kellee Santiago | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) | ||
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February 1, 2016 - 6:30pm to 7:30pm |
Confessions of a Design Therapist |
Norm Cox
Owner/Principal, Cox & Hall, LLC |
Margaret Morrison 103 (Breed Hall) |
In this lecture, Norm Cox will explore the early design roots of user interface, interaction and experience design, beginning with Xerox’s Star...... Full Details |
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January 29, 2016 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm |
Interactive Visual Tools for Mining Large Graphs |
Polo Chau
Assistant Professor, School of Computational Science & Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
At the Polo Club of Data Science, we innovate at the intersection of HCI and Data Mining, combining the best from both worlds to synthesize...... Full Details |
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January 22, 2016 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm |
Leading the Startup UX |
Uday Gajendar
Principal UX Designer (independent) |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
Let's imagine: You've happily graduated from CMU and just joined a startup as the lead (or maybe only!) designer. Nice! But you know you need to...... Full Details |
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January 15, 2016 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm |
The Role of Cognitive Strategy in Human-Computer Interaction | Anthony Hornof Associate Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Oregon | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
A fundamental challenge for the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) is to develop, identify and promote engineering approaches that can...... Full Details |
| December 11, 2015 - 1:15pm | A Computer Scientist's View of HCI, Systems and Theory |
Jason Hong
Associate Professor |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
This talk is actually two talks, one about research our team did in applying social psychology to cybersecurity, and another about the nature and...... Full Details |
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December 4, 2015 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm |
HCII Seminar Series: Steven Dow | Steven Dow Assistant Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University | NSH 1305 |
A Research Journey from Telepresence to Design Theory to Social Computing Research, like life, often takes us in...... Full Details |
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November 20, 2015 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm |
From EHRs to Body-Worn Sensors: Finding Causes of Health and Disease |
Samantha Kleinberg
Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Stevens Institute of Technology |
NSH 1305 |
Massive amounts of medical data from electronic health records are now being mined by researchers, and can be used to improve care such as by...... Full Details |
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November 13, 2015 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm |
Interacting with Personal Fabrication Machines |
Stefanie Mueller
PhD Student, Human Computer Interaction Lab, Hasso Plattner Institute |
NSH 1305 |
Even though considered a rapid prototyping tool, 3D printers are very slow. Many objects require several hours of printing time or even...... Full Details |
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November 6, 2015 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm |
Modeling Human Communication Dynamics |
Louis-Philippe Morency
Assistant Professor, Language Technology Institute, Carnegie Mellon University |
NSH 1305 |
Human face-to-face communication is a little like a dance, in that participants continuously adjust their behaviors based on verbal and nonverbal...... Full Details |
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October 30, 2015 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm |
Unlocking the Potential of Algorithms in Human Matters |
Min Kyung Lee
Research Scientist, Center for Machine Learning and Health, Carnegie Mellon University |
NSH 1305 |
Even beyond industrial domains such as production and operation management, algorithms increasingly act as mediators between people and the world...... Full Details |
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October 23, 2015 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm |
Playing with the Senses |
Heather Kelley
Assistant Teaching Professor, Entertainment Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University |
NSH 1305 |
Widely-available digital games are usually limited to technologies that reach our sense of sight and sound. Yet so much more is possible in the...... Full Details |
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October 16, 2015 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm |
Evidence-oriented Programming |
Andreas Stefik
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
NSH 1305 |
Computer science has a long and complex history with programming languages. Historically, we have conducted evaluations using proofs, to ensure...... Full Details |
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October 9, 2015 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm |
From Paid to Organic Crowdsourcing |
Krzysztof Gajos
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences |
NSH 1305 |
Human computation systems seamlessly combine human perception, creativity and knowledge with machine-driven algorithmic computation. Such systems...... Full Details |
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October 2, 2015 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm |
Barbarians |
Ambra Trotto
Studio Director, Interactive Institute Swedish ICT |
NSH 1305 |
In an age of massive transnational migrations, it becomes relevant to explore the concept of Barbarians. Where do they come from? From afar or...... Full Details |
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September 25, 2015 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm |
Debiasing Decisions: Improved Decision Making With a Single Training Intervention |
Carey Morewedge
Associate Professor of Marketing, Questrom School of Business, Boston University |
NSH 1305 |
From failures of intelligence analysis to misguided beliefs about vaccinations, biased judgment and decision making contributes to problems in...... Full Details |