Past Seminars
The HCII Seminar Series has been a weekly tradition at CMU since 1990. Details of our seminars from 2014 to present, as well as many of their recordings, are available below. A few years ago, we held a year of special programming in celebration of the seminar's 25th anniversary.
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| April 30, 2021 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm | Seminar: Robin Brewer |
 Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan |
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"Challenging, Understanding, and Innovating to Support Aging and Online Engagement" The United States Census predicts that ...... Full Details |
| April 23, 2021 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm | Seminar: Luke Stark |
 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario |
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“Ordering Emotion: Scenes from the History of Affective Computing” In fields ranging from health and wellness and |
| April 21, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm | Special Seminar: Portable Laser Cutting with Thijs Roumen |
 Ph.D. student at Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany |
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A portable format for laser cutting will enable millions of users to...... Full Details |
| April 9, 2021 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm | Seminar: Morgan Ames |
 Assistant Adjunct Professor in the School of Information and Associate Director of the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society at the University of California, Berkeley |
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"The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child" Drawing on her book, The Charisma...... Full Details |
| April 2, 2021 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm | Seminar: Timnit Gebru |
 Co-founder, Black in AI |
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"The hierarchy of knowledge in...... Full Details |
| March 26, 2021 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm | Seminar: Oliver Haimson |
 Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, School of Information |
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"Designing Trans Technology" Transgender and nonbinary people face substantial challenges in the world, ranging from social...... Full Details |
| March 12, 2021 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm | Seminar: Andrea G. Parker |
 Associate Professor, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech |
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"Community Wellness Informatics: Designing Technology for Health Equity" In the United States, there are serious and persistent...... Full Details |
| March 5, 2021 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm | Seminar: Ayanna M Howard |
 Dean, College of Engineering, The Ohio State University |
"Understanding and Mitigating Bias and Human Overtrust in Robotics and AI" People tend to overtrust sophisticated computing...... Full Details |
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| February 26, 2021 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm | Seminar: Denae Ford Robinson |
 Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research and Affiliate Assistant Professor at the University of Washington |
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"A Tale of Two Cities: Software Developers in Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic" The mass shift to working from home during...... Full Details |
| February 19, 2021 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm | Seminar: Tawanna Dillahunt |
 Associate Professor, University of Michigan |
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"Designing and Rethinking the Role of Digital Tools in Support of Employment among Job Seekers Experiencing Marginalization" ...... Full Details |
| February 12, 2021 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm | Seminar: Charlton McIlwain |
 Vice Provost for Faculty & Professor of Media Culture, and Communication, New York University |
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"Dreams of (Black) Tech Futures Past" Abstract: This is what could have been. If the computer geeks at MIT in 1960...... Full Details |
| February 5, 2021 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm | Seminar: Yolanda Rankin |
 Assistant Professor, School of Communications & Information, Florida State University |
"Rethinking Intersectionality in the Field of Computing: A Black Woman's Perspective" Intersectionality, a critical framework that...... Full Details |
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| December 4, 2020 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm | Seminar: Jessica Hullman |
 Associate Professor of Computer Science, Northwestern University |
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"Beyond Visualization: Theories of Inference to Improve Data Analysis & Communication" Data analysis is a decidedly human task. As...... Full Details |
| November 20, 2020 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm | Seminar: Anne Marie Piper |
 Associate Professor, University of California Irvine |
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"Rethinking Design for Accessibility" Approximately 61 million Americans, or one in four U.S. adults, have a disability that affects daily...... Full Details |
| November 13, 2020 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm | Seminar: Tamara Lynnette Clegg |
 Associate Professor, College of Information Studies and the Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership, College of Education, University of Maryland |
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"Designing Socio-technical Systems for Learning in the Third Place" Oldenberg (1989) characterizes Third Places as the gathering places...... Full Details |
| November 6, 2020 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm | Seminar: Martin Robillard |
 Professor, McGill University |
"Supporting opportunistic learning in software development with Wikipedia" Programmers are...... Full Details |
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| October 30, 2020 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm | Seminar: Amy J Ko |
 Professor, The Information School, University of Washington, Seattle |
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"Critical Computing Education" Computing can be a wondrous, powerful tool, bringing us information, experiences, and connections that...... Full Details |
| October 16, 2020 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm | Seminar: Karthik Ramani |
 Donald W. Feddersen Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University |
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"Augmenting Humans in Design Fabrication, Robotics, and Workflows Through Spatially Aware Interfaces" The convergence of many factors such...... Full Details |
| October 9, 2020 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm | Seminar: Niloufar Salehi |
 Assistant Professor, School of Information, UC Berkeley |
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"From content moderation to school assignment: What do theories of justice teach us about design?" Computational systems have a complex...... Full Details |
| October 2, 2020 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm | Seminar: Parmit Chilana |
 Assistant Professor, Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada |
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Beyond "One-Size-Fits-All": Designing for User Diversity in Software Learning and Help-Seeking Learning to use feature-...... Full Details |
| September 25, 2020 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm | Seminar: Chris Martens |
 Assistant Professor of Computer Science, NC State |
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"The politics of programming: towards convivial and liberatory digital tools" The software industry and corresponding educational pipeline...... Full Details |
| September 18, 2020 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm | Seminar: Post Doctoral Fellows |
4 guests: Alex Ahmed, Yongsung Kim, Sarah Preum, Angela Stewart |
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Alex AhmedTitle: "Community-based design of open source software for transgender people" Abstract: From the surveillance of...... Full Details |
| September 11, 2020 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm | Seminar: Molly Lewis |
 Research Scientist, Department of Psychology and Social & Decision Sciences |
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What are we learning from language? Cognitive and social biases are encoded in the structure of natural language Natural...... Full Details |
| September 4, 2020 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm | Seminar: HCII Post Doctoral Fellows |
4 Guest Speakers from the HCII Post Doctoral Fellows |
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Cynthia Bennett"The Care Work of Access" ABSTRACT: Current approaches to AI and Assistive Technology (...... Full Details |
| March 20, 2020 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Conversation, Design, and Wicked Problems |
 Professor of Practice, CMU HCII |
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The Colloquy of Mobiles was designed by Gordon Pask in 1968, a magnificent mechatronic expression of the sexual revolution at ...... Full Details |
| February 28, 2020 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Building a future for theatrical play: Designing for Expressive Participatory Mixed Reality Performance |
Tess Tanenbaum Assistant Professor, Transformative Play Lab, Department of Informatics, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California Irvine |
In this talk I'm going to discuss my approach to the theory and practice of “Theatrical Play” through the lens of three prototype systems...... Full Details |
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| February 21, 2020 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Augmenting Designers: Developing tools and methods to help designers do what they do better |
 HCII - CMU / Assistant Professor |
Recent advances in technologies such as conversational agents, robotics, machine learning, mixed reality, and the internet-of-things are allowing...... Full Details |
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| February 14, 2020 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | The MAGIC of Semantic IxD |
 Adjunct Professor UX Design, at San Jose State University | Founder of RCDO UX LLC |
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Do you know how much cognitive load your design ideas will place on the user even before you sketch out the first screen? If the cognitive load of...... Full Details |
| February 7, 2020 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Mobile, Social, and Fashion: Three Stories from Data-Driven Design |
 Chief Research Scientist, UserTesting | Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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Having access to the right types of data at scale is increasingly the key to designing innovation. In this talk, I'll discuss how my group has...... Full Details |
| January 31, 2020 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Understanding Human Behavior for Better Assistive Robots |
 Assistant Professor Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University | Human And Robot Partners (HARP) Lab |
Human-robot interaction has the potential to transform the way people work and live, particularly when it comes to assistive robots that help...... Full Details |
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| January 24, 2020 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Near-living Spaces: Paradigms and Methods |
 Principal, Philip Beesley Architect Inc. | Primary Investigator, Living Architecture Systems Group |
Using detailed illustrations of recent projects of the Living Architecture Systems Group, this talk will offer renewed working methods that can...... Full Details |
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| January 17, 2020 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Doing Inclusive Design: From GenderMag to InclusiveMag |
 OSU Distinguished Professor, Oregon State University |
How can software professionals assess whether their software supports diverse users? And if they find problems, how can they fix them? Although...... Full Details |
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| December 6, 2019 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Who is in the Crowd? Characterizing the Capabilities of Prize Competition Competitors |
 Associate Professor of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering and of International Affairs, The George Washington University |
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This seminar presents findings from a recent field experiment designed to characterize who in the crowd is willing and able to solve complex...... Full Details |
| November 22, 2019 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | The Big Picture of Quantum Technologies |
 Research Scientist, Alphabet's X (formerly Google X) |
Jack Hidary of Alphabet's X (formerly Google X) will update on current quantum computing approaches from industry & academia in the NISQ (near...... Full Details |
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| November 15, 2019 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | City Complex |
 Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation |
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Cities have always been complex, but in recent years, technology has inadvertently changed the nature of that complexity. Websites like Yelp and...... Full Details |
| November 8, 2019 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Computational Interventions for Behavior Change |
 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Statistics, Harvard University |
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In the US, unhealthy behaviors—such as sedentary lifestyle, overeating, substance use, and tobacco use—account for approximately 40% of the risk...... Full Details |
| November 1, 2019 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Scaffolding Robust Intelligent Systems with Crowds |
 Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering / Founding Director, Center for Hybrid Intelligence Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
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Intelligent systems hold the potential to enable natural, fluid, and efficient ways to achieve users’ objectives — but being able to understand...... Full Details |
| October 11, 2019 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | “Knowledge Embodied in Artifacts”: A Problem in Design Epistemology |
 Professor of Informatics and Director of the HCI/Design program in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University--Bloomington |
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Among the most exciting developments in HCI research today is the rise of designerly approaches to research: research through design, practice-...... Full Details |
| October 4, 2019 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Cautionary Tales and Better Futures for Social Technologies |
 Visiting Professor, Institute of Design in Chicago |
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This talk will explore the "human" in HCI, and offer ways to bring what people (just plain folk) care about (their passions and frustrations) into...... Full Details |
| September 20, 2019 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | How to Think About the Future |
 Associate Professor, CMU School of Design, and Director of Situation Lab |
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"Everyone thinks about the future. They just don't do it very well." – Jake Dunagan, Institute for the Future All design activity is future...... Full Details |
| September 13, 2019 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | The case for self-sovereign personal AI |
 CTO, Patient Privacy Rights Foundation |
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Whether it’s a smartphone that filters notifications or a brain implant that...... Full Details |
| September 6, 2019 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Teamwork with Robots |
 Assistant Professor in Information Science, Cornell University |
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Research on Human-robot Interaction to date has largely focused on examining a single human interacting with a single robot. This work has led to...... Full Details |
| August 30, 2019 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Asocial Design Yields Antisocial Agents |
 Assistant Professor of Computer Science, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley |
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Agentic technologies are increasingly emerging in intrinsically social settings; yet, the social capacities of such systems remain critically...... Full Details |
| July 22, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm | Smart Interfaces for Human-Centered AI: HCII Special Seminar |
 Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University |
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AI has the potential to automate people out of their jobs, and in some cases, it will. But while we should carefully consider the risk of...... Full Details |
| April 26, 2019 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | The Design of Ethical Interfaces |
 Professor of Practice, Human-Computer Interaction Institute |
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This talk proposes to the design community that we define and follow implementable principles for ethical interfaces. Such pragmatic principles...... Full Details |
| January 25, 2019 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Post Design Thinking: Designing for the Consequences of Innovation |
 Etsy |
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Design is practiced along a spectrum. Practicing at any point along the spectrum comes with different kinds of uncertainties and risks. On the...... Full Details |
| January 18, 2019 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Designing Everyday Things as Collaborative Partners in the Context of Childhood Oncology |
 Assistant Professor of Interaction Design, Delft University of Technology |
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In this talk I will report on the results of a four-year design research project that focused on how to support children and families dealing with...... Full Details |
| December 7, 2018 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Situated Interaction in the Open World: New Systems and Challenges |
 Researcher (Microsoft Research) |
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In this talk, I will introduce a research effort at MSR we call “Situated Interaction,” in which we strive to design and develop intelligent...... Full Details |
| November 30, 2018 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Human+AI Collaboration: Improving the FATE of High Stakes Decision Making |
 Principal Researcher, Microsoft |
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What do telepresence and bias have in common? Not much. After 20+ years of thinking about how to help people connect and engage with others over...... Full Details |
| November 16, 2018 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Can I Use That?! Ethics, Law, and Norms for Other People’s Data |
 Assistant Professor of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder |
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Your tweets, blog posts, photos, reviews, and dating profiles are all potentially being used for science. Though much of this research stems from...... Full Details |
| November 9, 2018 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | User, Agent, Subject, Spy: Information Systems for Human Flourishing |
 Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Boise State University |
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Every day, information access systems mediate our experience of the world beyond our immediate senses. Google helps us find what we seek, Amazon...... Full Details |
| November 2, 2018 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | How the Information Revolution is Changing Design Practice |
 Principal, Dubberly Design Office |
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The proliferation of sensors, smart-connected products (IoT), the measurements they generate (big data), on-demand computing (the cloud), and...... Full Details |
| October 26, 2018 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Learning Programming at Scale: Code, Data, and Environment |
 Assistant professor of Cognitive Science at UC San Diego |
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Modern-day programming is incredibly complex, and people from all sorts of backgrounds are now learning it. It is no longer sufficient just to...... Full Details |
| October 12, 2018 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | From personal informatics to personal analytics: personalized decision-support in health |
 Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University |
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The increasing abundance of personal data related to health and wellness presents new opportunities for discovery and insight and can help...... Full Details |
| October 5, 2018 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | The Reflect! platform: A cognitive system for dealing with wicked problems in teams |
 Associate Professor for Philosophy in the School of Public Policy & Co-Director of the Center for Ethics and Technology, Georgia Tech |
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Wicked problems are complex problems whose complexity results from the fact that they can be framed in a number of different ways, depending on...... Full Details |
| September 28, 2018 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Synthetic Teammates |
 Senior Cognitive Scientist & Cognitive Models Core Research Area Lead, Airman Systems, Air Force Research Laboratory |
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The rise in autonomous system research and development combined with the maturation of computational cognitive architectures holds the promise of...... Full Details |
| September 21, 2018 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | HCI Behind the Hospital Doors: EHR Challenges and Human Machine-Learning Interaction |
 Human Factors Scientist, University of Pennsylvania Health System |
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This talk will address two aspects of hospital systems that sorely need attention from the human-computer interaction community. The first aspect...... Full Details |
| September 14, 2018 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Ethical Engagement and the Dark Side of User Experience Design |
 Assistant Professor of Computer Graphics Technology, Purdue University |
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The profession of user experience (UX) design has rapidly expanded in the past decade, impacting the design of user interfaces, the larger...... Full Details |
| August 31, 2018 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Interaction Design and Imaginaries: Beyond Behavior Change |
 Assistant Professor & Chair of Design Studies, Carnegie Mellon University School of Design |
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How we think about the world affects what we do. The imaginaries we have—the stories we tell ourselves and each other, the mental models, language...... Full Details |
| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
 Allen K. and Johnnie Cordell Breed Junior Chair of Design, Assistant Professor in Computer Science, Northwestern University |
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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 |
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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 |
Professor Carmel Majidi directs the Integrated Soft Materials Lab at CMU, Mechanical Engineering department. Currently, his...... Full Details |
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| October 13, 2017 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Design at the Interface |
Daniel Cardoso Llach Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
 Assistant Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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 |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
 Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
 Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
 Manager of User Experience, ANSYS Inc. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
 Associate Professor, University of Michigan School of Information |
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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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Recording |
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 |
| 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 |
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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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