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Nithya Sambasivan
Nithya Sambasivan
Title: Everyone wants to do the model work, not the data work: Human-Data Interaction in AI Abstract: AI models are increasingly applied in high-stakes domains like health and conservation. Data quality carries an elevated significance in high-stakes AI due to…
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CLUE Symposium 2021 – DAY 1
CLUE Symposium 2021 – DAY 1
February 2, 2021 at 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM Location: RSVP on Zoom Cost: Free Contact Email: clue@carleton.ca Advanced RSVP required to attend via Zoom. The NSERC CREATE Collaborative Learning of Usability Experiences (CLUE) training program is hosting a final symposium online, with sessions over…
Remote! Code for Boston Civic Hack Night
Remote! Code for Boston Civic Hack Night
Code for Boston is a Code for America Brigade - a volunteer civic innovation organization created by Boston-area developers, designers, and activists with an interest in solving civic and social problems through the use of technology. We feel that Boston…
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Elinor Carmi on Media Distortions
Elinor Carmi on Media Distortions
You need to register for the free event at the ticket link. The event will also be recorded and shared on our website after the event. Dr. Elinor Carmi will be presenting on her work "Media Distortions: Understanding the Power…
Herman Saksono – DUB seminar
Herman Saksono – DUB seminar
Herman Saksono Harvard University The weekly DUB seminar is the primary gathering point for the DUB community. The seminar features talks from diverse leading perspectives in Human Computer Interaction & Design, presented by members of the DUB community and by…
CLUE Symposium 2021 – DAY 2
CLUE Symposium 2021 – DAY 2
Location: RSVP on Zoom Cost: Free Contact Email: clue@carleton.ca The NSERC CREATE Collaborative Learning of Usability Experiences (CLUE) training program is hosting a final symposium online, with sessions over 3 days, to allow students, industry and government partners to share their…
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Public Lecture Series: Critical Perspectives on Technology
Public Lecture Series: Critical Perspectives on Technology
Technologies invade our everyday lives, take part in constructing our identity, classify (often violently) bodies, and, pushed by recent regulations on social distancing, play an expanding role in connecting families and friends. The effects of this rapid increase of technological…
CLUE Symposium 2021 – DAY 3
CLUE Symposium 2021 – DAY 3
Location: RSVP on Zoom Cost: Free Contact Email: clue@carleton.ca The NSERC CREATE Collaborative Learning of Usability Experiences (CLUE) training program is hosting a final symposium online, with sessions over 3 days, to allow students, industry and government partners to share their…
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Yolanda Rankin – HCII Seminar
Yolanda Rankin – HCII Seminar
The Human-Computer Interaction Institute's Seminar Series is a Carnegie Mellon University tradition. For more than 25 years, we have gathered on Friday afternoons to listen to HCI industry thought leaders. Upcoming Seminars Visit the Upcoming Seminars page for the spring 2020 schedule…
Christopher Le Dantec – Designing Publics
Christopher Le Dantec – Designing Publics
Christopher Le Dantec, Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology Brief Bio:Â Chris Le Dantec is an Associate Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, jointly appointed in the School of Interactive Computing and the School of Literature, Media, and Communication. He…
Designing Assistive Technologies for Agency: Blind-Accessible Video Games and Audio Navigation Tools
Designing Assistive Technologies for Agency: Blind-Accessible Video Games and Audio Navigation Tools
Accessibility alone has not been enough to allow visually impaired people (VIPs) to experience the world with the same level of independence and richness as others can. Audio-based assistive technologies such as navigation aids and audio games (audio-only video games)…
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Interfaces that help us refine and communicate our intent to computers
Interfaces that help us refine and communicate our intent to computers
BostonCHI’s next meeting will be on Tue, Feb 9 at 6:15 PM EST, featuring Elena Glassman. Abstract It can be tough to communicate what we want a computer to do on our behalf, regardless of the method: examples, demonstrations,…
Monthly Meeting: BayCHI
Monthly Meeting: BayCHI
More Event Details Directions Location PARC's George E. Pake Auditorium 3333 Coyote Hill Road Palo Alto, CA Directions Ride Sharing We encourage you to use the Discussions email list to arrange shared rides with others planning to attend. BayCHI Contact Meeting Logistics…
Remote! Code for Boston Civic Hack Night
Remote! Code for Boston Civic Hack Night
Code for Boston is a Code for America Brigade - a volunteer civic innovation organization created by Boston-area developers, designers, and activists with an interest in solving civic and social problems through the use of technology. We feel that Boston…
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Ailie Fraser – DUB seminar
Ailie Fraser – DUB seminar
Ailie Fraser Adobe Research The weekly DUB seminar is the primary gathering point for the DUB community. The seminar features talks from diverse leading perspectives in Human Computer Interaction & Design, presented by members of the DUB community and by…
Yeshimabeit Milner on Abolish Big Data and Data 4 Black Lives
Yeshimabeit Milner on Abolish Big Data and Data 4 Black Lives
Yeshimabeit Milner is the Founder & Executive Director of Data for Black Lives. She has worked since she was 17 behind the scenes as a movement builder, technologist and data scientist on a number of campaigns. She started Data for…
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Public Lecture Series: Critical Perspectives on Technology
Public Lecture Series: Critical Perspectives on Technology
Technologies invade our everyday lives, take part in constructing our identity, classify (often violently) bodies, and, pushed by recent regulations on social distancing, play an expanding role in connecting families and friends. The effects of this rapid increase of technological…
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Charlton McIlwain – “Dreams of (Black) Tech Futures Past”
Charlton McIlwain – “Dreams of (Black) Tech Futures Past”
Abstract:Â This is what could have been. If the computer geeks at MIT in 1960 had just held on just a little while longer with our Mississippi freedom riders. If our uprisings in Watts, and Detroit, and Newark and Kansas City…
Accessible Virtual Reality for People with Limited Mobility
Accessible Virtual Reality for People with Limited Mobility
Virtual reality (VR) offers new and compelling ways for users to interact with digital content. VR provides immersive experiences that can be beneficial in various domains, such as gaming, training simulations, education, communication, and design. As VR technologies continue to…
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Simo Hosio
Simo Hosio
Title: TBD Speaker Biography: Simo Hosio is a social computing scientist, with a background rooted in ubiquitous computing and human-computer interaction. He was appointed as an Associate Professor (tenure track) in the GenZ strategic profiling theme of the University of…
Olga Megorskaya
Olga Megorskaya
Title: TBD Speaker Biography: Olga is responsible for providing human-labeled data for all AI projects at Yandex. She is also in charge of implementing crowd-based human-in-the-loop solutions in such areas as software testing, customer support, product localization, generation of content,…
Dimeji Onafuwa – “A World Where Many Worlds Fit – Exploring Pluriversal Design Practice”
Dimeji Onafuwa – “A World Where Many Worlds Fit – Exploring Pluriversal Design Practice”
Design has an inclusion problem. Dr. Onafuwa will share a perspective on how a pluriversal posture can help us address these challenges and build better collective futures. Dr. Onafuwa will draw from the ontological definition of pluriverse (adopted by Arturo…
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Remote! Code for Boston Civic Hack Night
Remote! Code for Boston Civic Hack Night
Code for Boston is a Code for America Brigade - a volunteer civic innovation organization created by Boston-area developers, designers, and activists with an interest in solving civic and social problems through the use of technology. We feel that Boston…
3 events,
Sara Hendren – DUB seminar
Sara Hendren – DUB seminar
Sara Hendren Olin College The weekly DUB seminar is the primary gathering point for the DUB community. The seminar features talks from diverse leading perspectives in Human Computer Interaction & Design, presented by members of the DUB community and by…
Feminist Data Set and CAre B0t with Caroline Sinders
Feminist Data Set and CAre B0t with Caroline Sinders
This is a free, virtual event with professional live captions, open to the public. This talk explores how usefulness is a necessary metaphor for design and art to critique technology, create spaces of provocation and activism. Within this talk, I…
2 events,
Public Lecture Series: Critical Perspectives on Technology
Public Lecture Series: Critical Perspectives on Technology
Technologies invade our everyday lives, take part in constructing our identity, classify (often violently) bodies, and, pushed by recent regulations on social distancing, play an expanding role in connecting families and friends. The effects of this rapid increase of technological…
Chancey Fleet on Digital Frictions and Dark Patterns in Accessible Technology
Chancey Fleet on Digital Frictions and Dark Patterns in Accessible Technology
Digital Frictions and Dark Patterns in Accessible Technology This lecture will trouble the idea that all accessible technology is inherently liberatory and good. We'll explore how designers without disabilities create accessible technologies that constrain disabled people by failing to play…
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Tawanna Dillahunt: Designing and Rethinking the Role of Digital Tools in Support of Employment among Job Seekers Experiencing Marginalization (CMU HCII Seminar)
Tawanna Dillahunt: Designing and Rethinking the Role of Digital Tools in Support of Employment among Job Seekers Experiencing Marginalization (CMU HCII Seminar)
Today’s Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are designed to address one of society’s most pressing problems---unemployment. These technologies are increasingly hailed as enablers of entrepreneurship and income generation, and they support job seekers’ ability to search for jobs, create resumes,…
Erin Hoffman-John, Stadia — Machine Learning for Designers
Erin Hoffman-John, Stadia — Machine Learning for Designers
Machine learning is the next great technological revolution, working hand-in-hand with distributed datacenter technology to achieve a paradigm shift in computing over the next decade. We often discuss machine learning and AI technologies in pure engineering terms -- this talk…
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AI and Human Memory: Understanding, Supporting, and Improving Human Memory through Human-Centered AI
AI and Human Memory: Understanding, Supporting, and Improving Human Memory through Human-Centered AI
Human memory drives the encoding, storing, and retrieval of our experiences. Artificial intelligence may help us in understanding challenges in memory research and could improve but potentially also hinder memory encoding and retrieval. Experts from Psychology, HCI, and Computer Science…
Remote! Code for Boston Civic Hack Night
Remote! Code for Boston Civic Hack Night
Code for Boston is a Code for America Brigade - a volunteer civic innovation organization created by Boston-area developers, designers, and activists with an interest in solving civic and social problems through the use of technology. We feel that Boston…
2 events,
Ishtiaque Ahmed – DUB seminar
Ishtiaque Ahmed – DUB seminar
Ishtiaque Ahmed University of Toronto The weekly DUB seminar is the primary gathering point for the DUB community. The seminar features talks from diverse leading perspectives in Human Computer Interaction & Design, presented by members of the DUB community and…
Funding AI: The role of public investments in Canada with Ana Brandusescu
Funding AI: The role of public investments in Canada with Ana Brandusescu
The opacity of artificial intelligence (AI) is not only found in the technology but also in its funding networks. Billions of taxpayers money goes into AI. The talk will examine how government funding is building the innovation economy under AI,…
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Public Lecture Series: Critical Perspectives on Technology
Public Lecture Series: Critical Perspectives on Technology
Technologies invade our everyday lives, take part in constructing our identity, classify (often violently) bodies, and, pushed by recent regulations on social distancing, play an expanding role in connecting families and friends. The effects of this rapid increase of technological…
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Denae Ford – “A Tale of Two Cities: Software Developers in Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic”
Denae Ford – “A Tale of Two Cities: Software Developers in Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic”
The mass shift to working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic radically changed the way many software development teams collaborate, communicate, and define productivity. Since the early months of the pandemic, we have been collecting data on changes in developer…
Smart Tutoring Through Conversational Interfaces
Smart Tutoring Through Conversational Interfaces
In the well-known two sigma problem introduced in 1984, Bloom found that students tutored by a one-on-one mastery-learning tutor achieved a learning outcome two standard deviations higher than those tutored by traditional learning methods. Since one-on-one tutoring is too costly…
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