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.

Date	Title	Speaker	Talk title and Abstract
August 27, 2014 4:00pm	HCII Seminar Series: Sarita Yardi Schoenebeck	Sarita Yardi Schoenebeck Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan	"Supporting Parents Online" Almost 30 years after Howard Rheingold’s 1986 account of parenting support he received on the WELL, parents have now become one of the most active demographics of social media users. Though there has been extensive interest in digital youth, little research has focused… Full Details
May 7, 2014 4:00pm	HCII Seminar: A New Era of IBM Design	Phil Gilbert General Manager, IBM Design	Great brands are known, in part, for the design of their products and for understanding how design can fuel client loyalty and longstanding relationships. Think about what makes you choose a product: it's not just about what it does, it's about the experience you have when using it; that is what… Full Details
April 23, 2014 4:00pm	HCII Seminar: Baking Data Into Design: User Experience at Google	Laura Granka Head of UX Research, Google+	The User Experience discipline has made great strides in recent years, especially towards tablet and mobile experiences. Understanding mobile device use is… Full Details
April 16, 2014 4:00pm	HCII Seminar - Ryan Brotman
April 9, 2014 4:00pm	HCII Seminar - Eytan Adar
April 2, 2014 4:00pm	HCII Seminar - Yu-ru Lin
March 26, 2014 4:00pm	HCII Seminar - Shaun Kane
February 26, 2014 4:00pm	HCII Seminar Series - Bill Thies
February 12, 2014 4:00pm	HCII Seminar Series - David Shamma
February 5, 2014 3:00pm	HCII Seminar Series - Guy Hoffman		Please note special starting time of 3pm.