Carnegie Mellon HCI Institute

Our next #HCIISeminarSeries guest is David Widder @davidthewid@hci.social, postdoctoral fellow at Cornell Tech Digital Life Initiative (and
@scsatcmu.bsky.social
alumnus)! Join us.

🎙️AI Supply Chains: Tools to Locate Power & Responsibility in AI Production for Critical, Accountable Computing

📅Friday, January 31

🕜1:30-2:30pm

📍NSH 1305+livestream

🔗https://hcii.cmu.edu/news/event/2025/01/hcii-seminar-series-david-widder

#CarnegieMellon #ComputerScience #HumanComputerInteraction #CriticalComputing #SocialComputing #ResponsibleAI

HCII Professor Scott Hudson is now an ACM Fellow! He was recognized for contributions in user interface software, interactive devices & computational fabrication applied to human-computer interaction (HCI). Congratulations, Scott.

🔗 https://hcii.cmu.edu/news/hudson-named-2024-acm-fellow

Undergrads, it's the final week to apply for the HCII's Summer 2025 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program! This paid, 10-week program offers on-campus housing, professional learning support (like weekly seminars about research, industry careers & grad school), and concludes with a student poster session.
🔗Learn more & apply by Friday, January 17: https://hcii.cmu.edu/summer-research-program

The application for our Summer 2025 HCI undergraduate research program is now open until January 17, 2025.

Students can choose from 25 research projects when applying to this paid, 10-week HCI REU program.

Details on our website:
🔗https://hcii.cmu.edu/news/hcii-seeks-applicants-2025-summer-research-program

#CarnegieMellon #cmuhcii #NSF #UndergraduateResearch #HumanComputerInteraction

"Digital Dreams Have Become Nightmares: What We Must Do -- A Call to Action"

Join us today at 11am for a special presentation by Ronald Baecker, @ACM@mastodon.acm.org Distinguished Speaker and Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto.

Details: https://hcii.cmu.edu/news/event/2024/09/acm-distinguished-speaker-and-hcii-special-presentation-ronald-baecker

❓ 💭 What do YOU think the future of human-computer interaction (HCI) looks like?

What skills, values & experiences are important to today's undergraduate or graduate HCI education?

Last call. Please share your perspectives with our curriculum team here:

🔗 https://bit.ly/hcii-curriculum-survey

Thank you.

#cmuhcii #CarnegieMellon #HumanComputerInteraction #HCIResearch #ComputerScience #TechEthics #SocialGood #Tech4Good #HumanCenteredDesign #a11y #ComputerScienceEducation

We are #hiring experienced Design & Technical HCI practitioners to join us as Teaching Track Faculty and as Adjunct Faculty for the Fall 2024 semester.

Details and links to apply:
🔗Teaching Track: https://hcii.cmu.edu/job/teaching-track-faculty

🔗Adjunct: https://hcii.cmu.edu/job/adjunct-instructors-fall-2024

#HumanComputerInteraction #CarnegieMellon #cmuhcii #Pittsburgh #DesignJobs #HigherEdJobs

❓🗯️ What do YOU think the future of human-computer interaction (HCI) looks like, and what do today's students need to know to be prepared?

Dear students, alumni, industry partners, and friends in the broader HCI community -- we want to hear from all of you!

What skills, values & experiences are important to an undergraduate or graduate HCI education? Please share your perspectives in this survey:
🔗 https://bit.ly/hcii-curriculum-survey

Thank you.

#cmuhcii #CarnegieMellon #HumanComputerInteraction

From his first cellphone to his favorite computer icon and emoji, here's a quick Q&A with Brad A. Myers, HCII director, professor and proud author of a fourth book, “Pick, Click, Flick! The Story of Interaction Techniques."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaBO45nV3Dk

The topic of today's #HCIISeminarSeries lecture was "Behavior-Driven Optimization for Interactive Data Exploration." Thank you to our guest speaker, Leilani Battle, Assistant Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington and co-director of the UW Interactive Data Lab, for joining us.

In case you missed it, the recording is available on our website:

https://hcii.cmu.edu/news/on/event/2024/04/hcii-seminar-series-leilani-battle

#InteractiveData #DataViz

CMU is back from spring break, and we're ready to resume the weekly HCII Seminar Series on Friday afternoons through the rest of the spring semester. We hope you will plan to join us.

Our next #HCIISeminarSeries guest will be Abigail Jacobs, assistant professor at the University Michigan.

🎙️"From Cadavers to Categories: Unpacking Upstream Assumptions in AI"

📅Friday, March 22

🕜1:30pm

📍NSH 1305 + livestream

🔗Details: https://hcii.cmu.edu/news/on/event/2024/03/hcii-seminar-series-abbie-jacobs

This Friday, our next #HCIISeminarSeries guest will be Amy Bruckman, Regents’ Professor, School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. Join us!

🎙️ "The Crisis in 'Knowledge': What HCI Practitioners Need to Know, and What We Can Do"

📅 Friday, March 1

🕜 1:30pm

📍 NSH 1305 + livestream

🔗 Details: https://buff.ly/3uQEO86

#cmuhcii #HumanComputerInteraction #SocialComputing

This Friday, our next #HCIISeminarSeries guest will be Nick Seaver, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, and Director of Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Tufts University. Join us!

🎙️ "Computing Taste: Care and Control in Algorithmic Music Recommendation"

📅 Friday, February 23

🕜 1:30pm

📍 NSH 1305 + livestream

🔗 Details: https://buff.ly/49Jou7Q

Gahgene Gweon, associate professor in the Department of Intelligence and Information at Seoul National University, will be our next #HCIISeminarSeries guest. Join us!

🎙️"Harnessing (big) data & (AI) technology in shaping HCI research for real impact"

📅Fri., Feb. 16

🕜1:30pm

📍NSH 1305 + livestream

🔗Details: https://hcii.cmu.edu/news/on/event/2024/02/hcii-seminar-series-gahgene-gweon

Attention undergraduate students: our 2024 Summer Undergraduate Research Program application is now OPEN!

Learn to conduct HCI research with us. Accepted students will work closely with #CarnegieMellon HCII faculty and researchers on 1 project for the summer. We have 28 research projects available.

This is a paid, 10-week summer position: May 28 to August 2, 2024 

Learn more and apply to this #cmuhcii program by January 26, 2024: https://hcii.cmu.edu/news/hcii-seeks-applicants-2024-summer-research-program#UndergraduateResearch 

#cmuhcii #UndergraduateResearch

We're hosting a virtual event November 12-14 for prospective human-computer interaction PhD students.

Drop in to meet our faculty, talk to current students, and learn more about admissions (our HCI PhD app is open until December).

Register: https://bit.ly/hci-phd-preview

#CarnegieMellon #cmuhcii #HumanComputerInteraction #HCI #hciphd