Past Seminars
Date |
Title | Speaker | Where | Abstract |
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| August 31, 2018 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Interaction Design and Imaginaries: Beyond Behavior Change |
Dan Lockton
Assistant Professor & Chair of Design Studies, Carnegie Mellon University School of Design |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
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 |
| September 14, 2018 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Ethical Engagement and the Dark Side of User Experience Design |
Colin Gray
Assistant Professor of Computer Graphics Technology, Purdue University |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
The profession of user experience (UX) design has rapidly expanded in the past decade, impacting the design of user interfaces, the larger...... Full Details |
| September 21, 2018 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | HCI Behind the Hospital Doors: EHR Challenges and Human Machine-Learning Interaction |
Susan Regli
Human Factors Scientist, University of Pennsylvania Health System |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
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 28, 2018 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Synthetic Teammates |
Christopher Myers
Senior Cognitive Scientist & Cognitive Models Core Research Area Lead, Airman Systems, Air Force Research Laboratory |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
The rise in autonomous system research and development combined with the maturation of computational cognitive architectures holds the promise of...... Full Details |
| October 5, 2018 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | The Reflect! platform: A cognitive system for dealing with wicked problems in teams |
Michael Hoffmann
Associate Professor for Philosophy in the School of Public Policy & Co-Director of the Center for Ethics and Technology, Georgia Tech |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
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 |
| October 12, 2018 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | From personal informatics to personal analytics: personalized decision-support in health |
Lena Mamykina
Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
The increasing abundance of personal data related to health and wellness presents new opportunities for discovery and insight and can help...... Full Details |
| October 26, 2018 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Learning Programming at Scale: Code, Data, and Environment |
Philip Guo
Assistant professor of Cognitive Science at UC San Diego |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
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 |
| November 2, 2018 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | How the Information Revolution is Changing Design Practice |
Hugh Dubberly
Principal, Dubberly Design Office |
University Center - Connan Room |
The proliferation of sensors, smart-connected products (IoT), the measurements they generate (big data), on-demand computing (the cloud), and...... Full Details |
| November 9, 2018 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | User, Agent, Subject, Spy: Information Systems for Human Flourishing |
Michael Ekstrand
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Boise State University |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
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 16, 2018 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Can I Use That?! Ethics, Law, and Norms for Other People’s Data |
Casey Lynn Fiesler
Assistant Professor of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
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 30, 2018 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Human+AI Collaboration: Improving the FATE of High Stakes Decision Making |
Kori Inkpen
Principal Researcher, Microsoft |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
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 |
| December 7, 2018 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Situated Interaction in the Open World: New Systems and Challenges |
Sean Andrist
Researcher (Microsoft Research) |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
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 |
| January 18, 2019 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Designing Everyday Things as Collaborative Partners in the Context of Childhood Oncology |
Marco Rozendaal
Assistant Professor of Interaction Design, Delft University of Technology |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
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 |
| January 25, 2019 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Post Design Thinking: Designing for the Consequences of Innovation |
Michael Yap and Kristen Leach
Etsy |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
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 |
| April 26, 2019 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | The Design of Ethical Interfaces |
Paul Pangaro
Professor of Practice, Human-Computer Interaction Institute |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
This talk proposes to the design community that we define and follow implementable principles for ethical interfaces. Such pragmatic principles...... Full Details |
| July 22, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm | Smart Interfaces for Human-Centered AI: HCII Special Seminar |
James Landay
Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University |
Newell-Simon Hall 4305 |
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 |
| August 30, 2019 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Asocial Design Yields Antisocial Agents |
Megan Strait
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
Agentic technologies are increasingly emerging in intrinsically social settings; yet, the social capacities of such systems remain critically...... Full Details |
| September 6, 2019 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Teamwork with Robots |
Malte Jung
Assistant Professor in Information Science, Cornell University |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
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 |
| September 13, 2019 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | The case for self-sovereign personal AI |
Adrian Gropper, MD
CTO, Patient Privacy Rights Foundation |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
Whether it’s a smartphone that filters notifications or a brain implant that...... Full Details |
| September 20, 2019 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | How to Think About the Future |
Stuart Candy, PhD
Associate Professor, CMU School of Design, and Director of Situation Lab |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
"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 |
| October 4, 2019 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Cautionary Tales and Better Futures for Social Technologies |
John Cain
Visiting Professor, Institute of Design in Chicago |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
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 |
| October 11, 2019 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | “Knowledge Embodied in Artifacts”: A Problem in Design Epistemology |
Jeffrey Bardzell
Professor of Informatics and Director of the HCI/Design program in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University--Bloomington |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
Among the most exciting developments in HCI research today is the rise of designerly approaches to research: research through design, practice-...... Full Details |
| November 1, 2019 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Scaffolding Robust Intelligent Systems with Crowds |
Walter S. Lasecki
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering / Founding Director, Center for Hybrid Intelligence Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
Intelligent systems hold the potential to enable natural, fluid, and efficient ways to achieve users’ objectives — but being able to understand...... Full Details |
| November 8, 2019 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Computational Interventions for Behavior Change |
Mashfiqui Rabbi
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Statistics, Harvard University |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
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 15, 2019 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | City Complex |
Violet Whitney
Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
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 22, 2019 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | The Big Picture of Quantum Technologies |
Jack Hidary
Research Scientist, Alphabet's X (formerly Google X) |
Newell-Simon Hall 4305 |
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 |
| December 6, 2019 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Who is in the Crowd? Characterizing the Capabilities of Prize Competition Competitors |
Zoe Szajnfarber
Associate Professor of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering and of International Affairs, The George Washington University |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
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 |
| January 17, 2020 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Doing Inclusive Design: From GenderMag to InclusiveMag |
Margaret Burnett
OSU Distinguished Professor, Oregon State University |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
How can software professionals assess whether their software supports diverse users? And if they find problems, how can they fix them? Although...... Full Details |
| January 24, 2020 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Near-living Spaces: Paradigms and Methods |
Philip Beesley
Principal, Philip Beesley Architect Inc. | Primary Investigator, Living Architecture Systems Group |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
Using detailed illustrations of recent projects of the Living Architecture Systems Group, this talk will offer renewed working methods that can...... Full Details |
| January 31, 2020 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Understanding Human Behavior for Better Assistive Robots |
Henny Admoni
Assistant Professor Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University | Human And Robot Partners (HARP) Lab |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
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 |
| February 7, 2020 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Mobile, Social, and Fashion: Three Stories from Data-Driven Design |
Ranjitha Kumar
Chief Research Scientist, UserTesting | Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
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 |
| February 14, 2020 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | The MAGIC of Semantic IxD |
Daniel Rosenberg
Adjunct Professor UX Design, at San Jose State University | Founder of RCDO UX LLC |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
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 21, 2020 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Augmenting Designers: Developing tools and methods to help designers do what they do better |
Nikolas Martelaro
HCII - CMU / Assistant Professor |
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
Recent advances in technologies such as conversational agents, robotics, machine learning, mixed reality, and the internet-of-things are allowing...... 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 | Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium) |
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 |
| March 20, 2020 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Conversation, Design, and Wicked Problems |
Paul Pangaro
Professor of Practice, CMU HCII |
Streaming: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/305638889 |
The Colloquy of Mobiles was designed by Gordon Pask in 1968, a magnificent mechatronic expression of the sexual revolution at ...... Full Details |