MIT CSAIL HCI Seminar

The MIT CSAIL HCI Seminar is generally held on Fridays 1:00-2:00pm in the Patil/Kiva Seminar Room (32-G449).
The HCI Seminar is open to the public.
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Contact Rob Miller (rcm@mit.edu) with questions.

2012-2013

Steven Dow (Carnegie Mellon University)
VIDEO Understanding Iterative Design with Individuals, Groups, and Crowds
November 2, 2012. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449
Jeff Bigham (University of Rochester)
VIDEO Crowd Agents: Interactive Crowd-Powered Systems in the Real World
November 9, 2012. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G882
Chris Harrison (Carnegie Mellon University)
VIDEO Interacting with Small Devices in Big Ways
November 15, 2012. 3-4pm. Location: 32-G449
Amy Ogan (Carnegie Mellon University)
VIDEO Taking Educational Technology Worldwide: Challenging the Assumptions of Personalized Learning
November 16, 2012. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449
Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech)
VIDEO What We Know About Teaching Computer Science: On-Line or In-Classroom (Answer: Not all that much)
November 30, 2012. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449
Eric Gilbert (Georgia Tech)
VIDEO Designing social computing systems around relationships
December 7, 2012. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449
Aron Pilhofer (The New York Times)
VIDEO Goosing the Gray Lady: Data + journalism + graphics at The New York Times
December 14, 2012. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449
Paul André (Carnegie Mellon University)
VIDEO Self and Social Awareness: Designing for Communication and Collaboration
March 8, 2013. 11am-12pm. Location: 32-G882
Monica Lam (Stanford University)
VIDEO How Mobile Disrupts Social As We Know It
April 10, 2013. 4-5pm. Location: 32-G449

2011-2012

Michael Terry (University of Waterloo)
Google Knows What You Hate About Your Kindle: Using Search Queries to Infer User Needs and Desires in Consumer Products
October 28, 2011. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449
Rebecca Fiebrink (Princeton University)
Real-time, Interactive Machine Learning for Music Composition and Performance
November 4, 2011. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449
Lada Adamic (Univerisity of Michigan)
VIDEO To friend and to trust: eliciting truthful and useful ratings online
November 18, 2011. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G882
Daniel Wigdor (University of Toronto)
Architecting user interfaces for the natural user
December 2, 2011. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449
Desney Tan (Microsoft Research)
VIDEO The Quest for Always-Available Mobile Interaction
December 7, 2011. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G882
Panos Iperiotis (NYU)
Crowdsourcing: Quality Assurance and Connections with Machine Learning
December 9, 2011. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449
Adrian Kuhn (University of British Columbia)
VIDEO Software Cartography
December 14, 2011. 2-3pm. Location: 32-G449
Tovi Grossman (Autodesk Research)
VIDEO Understanding and Improving the Learnability of Software Applications
March 2, 2012. 2-3pm. Location: 32-G449
Remco Chang (Tufts University)
VIDEO User-Centric Visual Analytics
March 16, 2012. 2-3pm. Location: 32-G449
Aniket Kittur (Carnegie Mellon University)
VIDEO Crowdsouring, collaboration, and creativity
April 6, 2012. 2-3pm. Location: 32-G449
Björn Hartmann (University of California, Berkeley)
VIDEO Feedback, Monitoring, and Free Snacks: Management Techniques for Crowd Work
April 26, 2012. 11am-12pm. Location: 32-G449
Mark Ackerman (University of Michigan)
VIDEO Configuration work and the Escalier System
April 27, 2012. 2-3pm. Location: 32-G449
Sep Kamvar (MIT)
Languages for Social Computation
May 18, 2012. 2-3pm. Location: 32-G449

2010-2011

David Ayman Shamma (Yahoo! Research)
VIDEO Staying together: Understanding People and Media in Synchronous Connected Systems
October 8, 2010. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449
Mira Dontcheva (Adobe Research)
VIDEO Graphic Design Tasks and the Web
October 15, 2010. 1-2pm. Location: 32-D463
Jennifer 8. Lee (Knight News Challenge)
VIDEO Innovating the News
November 19, 2010. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449
mc schraefel (University of Southampon)
Designing away from threat and towards performance: On the Road to Neural HCI
February 4, 2011. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449
Ken Perlin (NYU)
VIDEO The Future of Human/Computer Interfaces
February 18, 2011. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449
Joel Brandt (Adobe Systems)
VIDEO Example-Centric Programming
February 25, 2011. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449
Kuang Chen (UC Berkeley)
VIDEO Data in the First Mile
March 11, 2011. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449
Adam Perer (IBM Research)
VIDEO Making Sense of Social Networks
March 18, 2011. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449
Nicole Ellison (Michigan State University)
VIDEO The benefits of Facebook "Friends": The social capital implications of Facebook-enabled communication practices
April 1, 2011. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449
John Riedl (University of Minnesota)
VIDEO The Effects of Diversity on Productivity, Member Withdrawal, and Decision Quality in a Social Production Community
April 8, 2011. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449
Andy Ko (University of Washington)
VIDEO Defect Detection for the Wayward Web
April 15, 2011. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449
Cliff Lampe (Michigan State University)
VIDEO "Earn Your Bull$&!*": User Lifecycles in Social Media
April 22, 2011. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449
Liz Gerber (Northwestern University)
VIDEO Technology that Motivates Creative Action
April 29, 2011. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449

2009-2010

John Stasko (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Visual Analytics for Investigative Analysis and Exploration of Document Collections
September 11 2009. 1-2pm. Location: 34-401
Douglas Crockford (Yahoo!)
VIDEO Javascript: The Good Parts
September 18 2009. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449
Jeff Nichols (IBM Research)
VIDEO Highlight: Mobilizing Existing Web Sites
October 2 2009. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449
Steve Whittaker (IBM Research, Almaden)
VIDEO The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Memories
October 23 2009. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449
Chieko Asakawa (IBM Research Tokyo)
VIDEO Challenges and Opportunities in Accessibility Research
October 30 2009. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449
Michael Muller and N Sadat Shami (IBM Research and IBM Center for Social Software)
VIDEO Patterns of File-Sharing in an Enterprise: Authors, Contributors, Collectors, and Lurkers
November 6 2009. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449
Jonathan Grudin (Microsoft Research)
VIDEO Enterprise Uses of Social Media
November 13 2009. 1-2pm. Location: 32-D463
danah boyd (Microsoft Research and Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society)
VIDEO Youth-Generated Culture: Growing Up in an Era of Social Media
November 20 2009. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449
Elizabeth Churchill (Yahoo! Research)
VIDEO Beyond the hype of FlickTwitFaceSpace: The social Internet in everyday life
December 4 2009. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449
Karrie Karahalios (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
VIDEO From Turn-taking to Social Ties
February 12, 2010. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449
Niki Kittur (Carnegie Mellon University)
VIDEO Combining Minds: Coordination and Social Sensemaking
February 19, 2010. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449
Nick Bilton (New York Times)
VIDEO Research, Design, Visualization at the New York Times
April 9, 2010. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449
Chris Schmandt (MIT Media Lab)
Person-centered location based computing
May 7, 2010. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449

2008-2009

Li-Te Cheng and Steven Rohall (IBM Research Cambridge)
Bluegrass - Embedding a Virtual World In a Collaborative Software Development Environment
September 5, 2008. 2-3pm. Location: 32-G449
Merrie Morris (Microsoft Research)
VIDEO SearchTogether and CoSearch: New Tools for Enabling Collaborative Web Search
September 26, 2008. 2-3pm. Location: 32-D463
Maneesh Agrawala (UC Berkeley)
Design Principles for Visual Communication
October 10, 2008. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449
Khai N. Truong (University of Toronto)
VIDEO Beyond Google
October 17, 2008. 2-3pm. Location: 32-G449
Jill Freyne (University College Dublin)
VIDEO Collaborative Web Search: Exploiting Social Interaction Patterns for Increased Result Relevance
November 7, 2008. 2-3pm. Location: 32-G449
François Guimbretière (University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Lab)
VIDEO People, Pens and Computers
November 14, 2008. 2-3pm. Location: 32-G449
Ryan Lesser and Dan Schmidt (Harmonix)
How Harmonix has Changed the User Interface of Gaming
November 21, 2008. 3-4pm. Location: 32-155
Saul Greenberg (University of Calgary)
VIDEO Enhancing Creativity with Toolkits
December 3, 2008. 11am-12pm. Location: 32-G449
Ed Chi (PARC)
VIDEO Augmented Social Cognition: Using Web2.0 technology to enhance the ability of groups to remember, think, and reason
February 3, 2009. 11am-12pm. Location: 32-G449
Ruth Rosenholtz (MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences)
VIDEO Do predictions of visual perception aid design?
February 20, 2009. 2-3pm. Location: 32-G449
Krzysztof Gajos (Harvard University and Microsoft Research)
VIDEO Automatically Generating Personalized User Interfaces
February 27, 2009. 2-3pm. Location: 32-G449
Belle Tseng (Yahoo!)
VIDEO Universal Web Search Relevance
March 3, 2009. 11am-12pm. Location: 32-D463
Joseph Lawrance (Oregon State University)
VIDEO Information Foraging in Debugging
March 13, 2009. 2-3pm. Location: 32-G449
Takeo Igarashi (University of Tokyo)
VIDEO Interactive "Smart" Computers
March 30, 2009. 2-3pm. Location: 32-D463
Jaime Teevan (Microsoft Research)
VIDEO The Web Changes Everything: How Dynamic Content Affects the Way People Find Online
April 3, 2009. 2-3pm. Location: 32-G449
Michel Beaudouin-Lafon (Université de Paris-Sud)
Interaction Beyond Computation
April 10, 2009. 11am-12pm. Location: 32-D463
Patrick Baudisch (Microsoft Research and Hasso Plattner Institute)
VIDEO Back-of-Device Interaction Allows Creating Very Small Touch Devices
April 10, 2009. 2-3pm. Location: 32-G449
Orit Shaer (Wellesley)
VIDEO A Specification Paradigm for the Design and Implementation of Tangible User Interfaces
May 1, 2009. 2-3pm. Location: 32-G449
William Jones (University of Washington)
VIDEO Putting Our Digital Information in Its Place: Lessons Learned from Fieldwork and Prototyping in the Keeping Found Things Found Project
May 5, 2009. 11am-12pm. Location: 32-G449

2007-2008

Bill Buxton (Microsoft Research)
Sketching and Design for the Wild: Why Programmers Should Return to Kindergarten Rather than Program
September 14, 2007. 1-2pm. Location: 32-141
Jon Herlocker (Oregon State University and Smart Desktop, Inc.)
TaskTracer and Smart Desktop: Combining Activity Tracking with Machine Learning to Support Multi-tasking Information Workers
September 21, 2007. 2-3pm. Location: 32-G449
Jason Hong (Carnegie Mellon HCI Institute)
User Interfaces and Algorithms for Anti-Phishing
September 28, 2007. 2-3pm. Location: 32-G449
Scott Klemmer (Stanford University)
Enabling User Innovation through Improved Design Environments
October 5, 2007. 2-3pm. Location: 32-G449
Ryen White (Microsoft Research)
Do Users Need a Search Parachute and a Search Compass? Supporting Navigation and Guided Discovery During Exploratory Search
October 23, 2007. 1-2pm. Location: 32-G449
Amy Bruckman (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Shaping the Age of User-Generated Content
November 2, 2007. 2-3pm. Location: 32-G449
Irene Greif (IBM Research)
In Crowds We Trust: Examples of Collective Wisdom
November 9, 2007. 2-3pm. Location: 32-G449
Jeff Heer (UC Berkeley)
VIDEO Voyagers and Voyeurs: Supporting Asynchronous Collaborative Information Visualization
November 16, 2007. 2-3pm. Location: 32-G449
Towards Usable and Useful Multi-Touch Systems (University of Toronto)
Towards Usable and Useful Multi-Touch Systems
November 30, 2007. 2-3pm. Location: 32-G449
Scott Hudson (Carnegie Mellon HCI Institute)
Viewing Ubiquitous Computing Through the Lens of Human Attention
February 7, 2008. 2-3pm. Location: 32-G449
Mark Ashdown (MIT Humans and Automation Laboratory)
Tabletop Displays and Remote Collaboration
February 29, 2008. 2-3pm. Location: 32-G449
Harry West (Continuum Design)
Interactive Experiences: Designing for Consumer 2.0
March 7, 2008. 2-3pm. Location: 32-G449
Candy Sidner (BAE Systems AIT)
Robots and People Collaborating: How to be an Engaging Robot
March 14, 2008. 3-4pm. Location: 32-D463
Tessa Lau (IBM Almaden Research Center)
Collaborative Scripting for the Web
March 21, 2008. 2-3pm. Location: 32-G449
Andreas Paepke (Stanford University)
Twenty Questions to Name That Bird
April 18, 2008. 2-3pm. Location: 32-G449
Dan Olsen (Brigham Young University)
Interactive Machine Learning
May 2, 2008. 2-3pm. Location: 32-G449
Ronald Baecker (Knowledge Media Design Institute and Dept of Computer Science, University of Toronto)
User Experience Research Challenges in Media Spaces for eLearning
May 8, 2008. 2-3pm. Location: 32-G449
Ben Fry (Processing.org)
Processing
May 16, 2008. 2-3pm. Location: 32-G449

2006-2007

James Lin (IBM Research Almaden)
End-User Creation, Customization, and Sharing of Work Activities and Processes
September 20, 2006. 11am-12pm. Location: 32-G449
Karen Holtzblatt (InContext Enterprises)
Contextual Design: From Customer Data to Implementation
September 29, 2006. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-D463
Peter Tarasewich (Northeasteren University)
Strengthening the Privacy & Security of Displayed Information
October 6, 2006. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-D463
Mary Ellen Zurko (IBM)
User-Centered Security: Stepping Up to the Grand Challenge
October 20, 2006. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-D463
mc schraefel (University of Southampton)
Making Tea with Chemists and Bioinformatitians - lessons learned in designing up close and at a distance
November 17, 2006. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-D463
Steven Drucker (Microsoft Research/Live Labs)
Information Visualization meets Information Overload: Building User Interfaces to Deal with Too Much Information
November 30, 2006. 11am-12pm. Location: 32-G449
Harold Thimbleby (Swansea University)
A new sort of calculator
January 11, 2007. 4-5pm. Location: 32-G449
Gregory Abowd (Georgia Tech)
Using Computing Technologies to Face the Challenges of Autism
February 2, 2007. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-G449
Brian P. Bailey (University of Illinois)
Paying Attention to Interruption: A Human-Centered Approach to Intelligent Interruption Management
February 16, 2007. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-D463
Mor Naaman (Yahoo! Research Berkeley)
The Community/Individual Cycle: Extracting Knowledge, Creating Applications and Understanding Motivations in Public Photo Collections
February 23, 2007. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-D463
Bill Moggridge (IDEO)
Invention and Innovation
March 9, 2007. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-G449
Jeremy Bailenson (Stanford University)
Transformed Social Interaction in Virtual Reality
March 16, 2007. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-D463
Alfred Kobsa (Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine)
Privacy-Enhanced Personalization
March 30, 2007. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-D463
Christopher R. Wren (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories)
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
April 6, 2007. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-D463
Marti Hearst (School of Information, UC Berkeley)
Some Thoughts on Social Tagging
April 20, 2007. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-D463
Stacey Scott (MIT Humans and Automation Lab)
Leveraging Task and Social Practices in Ubicomp
April 27, 2007. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-D463
Katherine Isbister (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Better Game Characters by Design: A Psychological Approach
May 11, 2007. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-D463

2005-2006

David MacKay (University of Cambridge)
Dasher - Efficient Communication with Any Muscle, or Even Just One Neuron
July 21, 2005. 10-11am. Location: 32-G449
Edward Tse (University of Calgary)
Puppetry in 3D Animations
September 2, 2005. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-D463
Ted Selker (MIT Media Lab)
Context Aware Computing, Understanding and Responding to Human Intention
September 9, 2005. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-D463
Jared Spool (User Interface Engineering)
What Users Want
September 16, 2005. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-G449
Judith Tabolt Matthews (University of Pittsburgh, School of Nursing)
Robots and Other Intelligent Technology for Older Adults
September 23, 2005. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-G449
Marina Bers (Tufts Univeristy)
Developmental Technologies: Designing Computational Environments to Promote Positive Youth Development
September 30, 2005. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-G449
Beth Logan (Hewlett Packard)
Automatic Music Similarity Measures
October 7, 2005. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-G449
Stephen Intille (MIT House_n)
The PlaceLab: What it does, what's been done with it, and how you can use it for your own research
October 14, 2005. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-G449
Ben Shneiderman (University of Maryland, College Park)
The Thrill of Discovery: Information Visualization for High-Dimensional Spaces
October 18, 2005. 4-5pm. Location: 32-G449
Tamara Adlin (Amazon Services)
The Persona Lifecycle: Integrating User Representations into Every Stage of Product Design
October 25, 2005. 11am-12pm. Location: 32-G449
Martin Wattenberg (IBM Watson Research Center)
The Social Life of Visualizations
November 4, 2005. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-G449
William Gribbons (Design and Usability Center, Bentley College)
HCI Meets the Boardroom: User Experience as a Business Unit
November 18, 2005. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-G449
Paul Lukowicz (UMIT, Innsbruck, Austria; ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Context Awarness In Wearable System in Human Computer Interaction
December 2, 2005. 3-4pm. Location: 32-G449
Michael Muller (IBM Cambridge Research Lab)
Multiple Users' Perspectives of Collaborative Activities in Complex Work
March 10, 2006. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-G449
Fritz Knabe (Endeca)
Ending The Tyranny of the Search Box
March, 17 2006. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-G449
Pekka Ketola (Nokia)
On Mobile User Interfaces, Usability and Ergonomy: Trends and Evolution
April, 7 2006. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-G449
Kazuhiro Otsaka (NTT)
Communication Scene Analysis Based on Probabilistic Modeling of Human Gaze Behavior
April, 28 2006. 2-3pm. Location: 32-G449
Bill Barnert (SavaJe Technologies)
Squeezing Java Swing Components onto a Cell Phone
May, 5 2006. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-G449
Patrick Baudisch (Microsoft Research)
Making Sense on Small Screens
July, 28 2006. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-D463

2004-2005

Stacey Scott (University of Calgary)
Territoriality in Collaborative Tabletop Workspaces
August 13 2004. 1:0-2:00pm. Location: 32-397
Ben Bederson (Human Computer Interaction Lab, University of Maryland)
Interfaces for Staying in the Flow
September 17 2004. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-G449
Robert C. Miller (CSAIL, MIT)
Bridging Tradeoffs in User Interface Design: Examples from Text Editing, Wide-Area Navigation, and Graphical Editing
September 24 2004. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-G449
Missy Cummings (Humans and Automation Lab, MIT)
Automation Bias in Intelligent Time Critical Decision
October 1 2004. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-G449
Hiroshi Ishii (Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab)
Tangible Bits: Beyond Ubiquitous GUIs
October 8 2004. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-G449
William Jones (The Information School, University of Washington)
A review of the Keeping Found Things Found project: Highlights and new Directions
October 12 2004. 3:00-4:00pm. Location: 32-D463
Margrit Betke (Boston University)
Communication Interfaces for People with Severe Disabilities via Video-based Gesture Detection
October 15 2004. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-G449
Gregory D. Abowd (College of Computing and GVU Center, Georgia Institute of Technology)
Hold that thought! Applications of automated capture in everyday life
October 22 2004. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-G449
Barbara J. Grosz (Harvard University)
Beyond Mice and Menus
October 29 2004. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-G449
Tom Igoe (NYU)
Social, Physical, and Assistive: Grounding Innovation in Social (and Personal) Motivation
November 5 2004. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-D463
Gary Marchionini (School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina)
Human-Computer Information Retrieval
November 12 2004. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-G449
Demetrios Karis (Verizon Labs)
Techniques for Understanding the User Experience
November 19 2004. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-G449
Sean W. Smith (Dartmouth College)
Security, Trust, and HCI
December 10 2004. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: 32-G449
Holly Yanco (University of Massachusetts, Lowell)
Improving Human-Robot Interaction for Urban Search and Rescue
February 4 2005. 1:30PM to 2:30PM. Location: Patil Seminar Room (32-G449)
Daniel Weld (University of Washington)
User Interfaces: Adaptation, Customization & Generation
February 18 2005. 1:30PM to 2:30PM. Location: Patil Seminar Room (32-G449)
Michael Muller (IBM Watson Research Center)
Activity Studies in Complex Collaborative Environments
February 25 2005. 1:30PM to 2:30PM. Location: Patil Seminar Room (32-G449)
Ruth Rosenholtz (MIT BCS)
What is clutter?
April 1 2005. 1:30PM to 2:30PM. Location: Patil Seminar Room (32-G449)
Susan T. Dumais (Microsoft Research)
Stuff I've Seen: Personal Information Management and Use
April 13 2005. 4:00PM to 5:00PM. Location: Patil Seminar Room (32-G449)
Steven Feiner (Columbia University)
Here, There, and Everywhere: User Interfaces and Spatial Context
April 22 2005. 1:30PM to 2:30PM. Location: Patil Seminar Room (32-G449)
Chia Shen (MERL)
Understanding Multi-User Interface and Interactions On and Across Direct-Touch Surfaces
April 29 2005. 1:30PM to 2:30PM. Location: Patil Seminar Room (32-G449)
Pattie Maes (MIT Media Lab)
Attentive Objects: Enriching People's Natural Interaction with Everyday Objects
May 13 2005. 1:30PM to 2:30PM. Location: Patil Seminar Room (32-G449)

2003-2004

Andrew Senior (IBM Watson Research Center)
PeopleVision: Human Aware Environments
July 24, 2003. 4:00pm. Location: NE43-941
Henry Lieberman (MIT Media Lab)
Beating Common Sense into Interactive Applications
September 5, 2003. 1:30pm. Location: NE43-941
Candy Sidner (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL))
Engagement by Looking: Behaviors for Robots When Collaborating with People
September 19, 2003. 1:30pm. Location: NE43-941
Tom Tullis (Fidelity Investments)
Web Usability and Age
September 26, 2003. 1:30pm. Location: NE43-941
Tom Erickson (IBM Watson Research Center)
On Designing Systems that Support Coherent Online Interaction
October 10, 2003. 1:30pm. Location: NE43-941
David Brown & Mark Claypool (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
CURIOUS BROWSERS: Automated gathering of implicit interest indicators by an instrumented browser
October 17, 2003. 1:30pm. Location: NE43-941
Michael Muller & Werner Geyer & Beth Brownholt (IBM Watson Research Center)
One Hundred Days in an Activity-Centric Collaboration Environment Based on Shared Object
October 24, 2003. 1:30pm. Location: NE43-941
Jared Spool (User Interface Engineering)
Scent of a Web Page: Getting Them to What They Want
October 31, 2003. 1:30pm. Location: NE43-941
Judith Donath (MIT Media Lab)
Social Visualizations of Newsgroups and Email
November 14, 2003. 1:30pm. Location: NE43-941
Rob Capra (Center for HCI, Virginia Tech)
Toward Models of Information Re-Finding
November 21, 2003. 1:30pm. Location: NE43-941
Ruth Rosenholtz (MIT BCS)
Using Thumbnails to Search the Web and Browse Documents
December 5, 2003. 1:30pm. Location: NE43-941
Henry Lieberman (MIT Media Lab)
Beating Common Sense into Interactive Applications
February 13, 2004. 1:30pm - 2:30pm. Location: NE43/941
Mary Czerwinski (Microsoft Research)
Designing Novel Visualization and Interaction Techniques that Scale from Small to Jumbo Displays
April 9, 2004. 1:30pm - 2:30pm. Location: 34-401B (Grier B)
Rosalind Picard (MIT Media Lab)
Toward Machines with Emotional Intelligence
April 16, 2004. 1:30pm - 2:30pm. Location: 32-5xx
Carol Neidle and Robert G. Lee (Boston University)
Dimensions of the Linguistic Analysis of ASL: Challenges for Computer-Based Recognition
June 9, 2004. 11am - 12pm. Location: 32-D507

2002-2003

Phil Cohen (Oregon Health and Science University)
On Building Flexible and Robust Multimodal Interfaces
February 21 2003. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: NE43-941
Robert J.K. Jacob (Tufts University)
Elements of Next-Generation, Non-WIMP User Interfaces
February 28 2003. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: NE43-941
Neil Heffernan (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Improving Intelligent Tutoring Systems
March 7 2003. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: NE43-941
Joe Marks (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL))
Ubiquitous-Computing Research at MERL: A Selective Overview
March 14 2003. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: NE43-941
Nicole Yankelovich (Sun Microsystems Laboratories)
Meeting Central
April 11 2003. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: NE43-941
Stephen Intille (MIT House_n)
Designing Ubiquitous Technology for the Home
April 18 2003. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: NE43-941
Irene Greif (IBM Watson Research Center)
Reinventing Email and Attention Management
May 2 2003. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: NE43-941
Brad Myers (Human Computer Interaction Institute, CMU)
Mobile Devices for Control
May 9 2003. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: NE43-941
Mark Maybury (MITRE)
Personalcasting: Broadcast News Understanding and Navigation
May 16 2003. 1:30-2:30pm. Location: NE43-941