Past Seminars
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Title | Speaker | Where | Abstract |
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| January 19, 2018 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Can We Design Machines to Be More Humane? | Paul Pangaro Chair and Associate Professor, MFA Interaction Design, College for Creative Studies | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
Billions of people use digital machines every day and we are all subject to their qualities. Who would question a quality that allows a digital...... Full Details |
| December 8, 2017 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Deep Learning for Understanding Driver Behavior in 275,000 Miles of Semi-Autonomous Driving Data | Lex Fridman Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
Today, and possibly for a long time to come, the full driving task is too complex an activity to be fully formalized as a sensing-acting robotics...... Full Details |
| December 1, 2017 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | If the Shoe Fits: Towards A Conceptual Model for Applied Deep Learning in Social Computing | Carolyn P Rose Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
For more than a decade, a growing interest in automated processing of behavior traces has been in evidence across areas in HCI, perhaps especially...... Full Details |
| November 17, 2017 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Supporting People with Low Vision with Augmented Reality | Shiri Azenkot Assistant Professor, Cornell Tech, Cornell University | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
About 19 million people in the US report difficulty seeing even with glasses or contact lenses. Many of these people ...... Full Details |
| November 3, 2017 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Computational Ecosystems: Tech-enabled Communities to Advance Human Values at Scale |
Haoqi Zhang
Allen K. and Johnnie Cordell Breed Junior Chair of Design, Assistant Professor in Computer Science, Northwestern University |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
Despite the continued development of individual technologies and processes for supporting human endeavors, major leaps in solving complex human...... Full Details |
| October 27, 2017 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | How to Design with Openness: Shaping a Design Approach for Open and Growing Systems | Joep Frens Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
In this lecture I argue that (interaction) design is changing from a “one product – one user” perspective towards a more “multiple products –...... Full Details |
| October 16, 2017 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm | Special HCII Seminar: Soft Materials for Human Compatible Machines and Electronics | Carmel Majidi Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University | Newell-Simon Hall 3305 |
Professor Carmel Majidi directs the Integrated Soft Materials Lab at CMU, Mechanical Engineering department. Currently, his...... Full Details |
| October 13, 2017 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Design at the Interface | Daniel Cardoso Llach Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
At the dawn of the information age Herbert Simon advanced a view of design as a ‘science of the artificial’ that could be expressed by statements...... Full Details |
| September 29, 2017 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Prototyping a More Positive Future | Sophia Brueckner Assistant Professor, Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
Sophia Brueckner is a futurist artist, designer, and engineer. Inseparable from computers since the age of two, she believes she is a cyborg. At...... Full Details |
| September 22, 2017 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | User Research: The Designer’s Ticket to Informing Strategy | Jeremy Koempel Co-Founder and Design Lead, Bessemer Alliance | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
The rate of change in our world is breathtaking. Many organizations simply cannot evolve quick enough to capitalize on this change and prepare for...... Full Details |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |