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…
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,…
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…
Ayanna M Howard on Understanding and Mitigating Bias and Human Overtrust in Robotics and AI
People tend to overtrust sophisticated computing devices, including robotic systems. As these systems become more fully interactive with humans during the performance of day-to-day activities, the role of bias in these human-robot interaction scenarios must be more carefully investigated.  Bias is a…
Andrea G. Parker at CMU HCII
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Oliver Haimson on “Designing Trans Technology”
Transgender and nonbinary people face substantial challenges in the world, ranging from social inequities and discrimination to lack of access to resources. Though technology cannot fully solve these problems, technological solutions may help to address some of the challenges trans…
Timnit Gebru at CMU HCII
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Morgan Ames on The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child
Drawing on her book, The Charisma Machine, Ames chronicles the life and legacy of the One Laptop per Child project and explains why — despite its failures — the same utopian visions that inspired OLPC still motivate other projects trying to…
Luke Stark – CMU HCII Seminar
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Robin Brewer at CMU HCII
Robin Brewer is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Her research lies at the intersection of accessibility and social computing where she studies and designs for how older adults and disabled people engage…
HCII Seminar Series – Susan Wyche
"Reconsidering Human-Centered Approaches to Design in Human-Computer Interaction and Development (HCI4D): Using Design Methods to Reimagine Technology in Rural Kenya" Enthusiasm for using human-centered design persists among HCI and HCI4D researchers and practitioners; funding agencies continue to support efforts to…
HCII Seminar Series – Marshini Chetty
"Imagine All The People On A Trustworthy Internet" Imagine a world where the Internet caters to all types of users and hosts trustworthy content. Right now, this world seems far off for many reasons. For instance, this world would…
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