Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (Fall 2009)

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Shwetak Patel, from the University of Washington, discusses the challenge and recent developments of researching ubiquitous homes while allowing people to be in their natural environment. (November 20, 2009)

Hamid Aghajan, from the Stanford Department of Electrical Engineering, discusses his research in technological developments that will allow for smart environments to sense and create a user-centric environment. (November 13, 2009)

Stanford Professor Mark Levoy discusses Stanford's development of the Frankencamera--a programmable camera capable of correcting and computing photographs, operating with applications, and connecting to the internet. (November 6, 2009)

Pamela Samuelson, Professor at UC Berkeley School of Information, discusses several troubling legal aspects of Google's settlement with copyright owners for the ambitious Google Books scanning and archiving program. (October 30, 2009)

Barbara Tversky, Professor at Stanford and Columbia University, discusses how visual narratives use visual devices to form a visual vocabulary by breaking up time and space, showing space and time, and linking time and space. (October 23, 2009)

Stephen Palmer, UC Berkeley Psychology, discusses his research on how humans think about, associate and react to color to demonstrate that it is possible to study the science of aesthetics. (October 16, 2009)

Ras Bodik, from UC Berkeley Computer Science, discusses how partial programs can communicate programmer insight and how suitable synthesis algorithm completes the mechanics. (October 9, 2009)

David Akers discusses the difficulties in testing creation application testing on ease of usability. Akers claims that backtracking events can be effective indicators of usability problems. (October 2, 2009)

Lukas Biewald of Delores Labs, discusses crowdsourcing applications like Mechanical Turk that utilize online workers to do menial tasks for short periods of time. (September 25, 2009)