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Seminar Announcements
Introspective Users and Introspective Text: Some Recent Results
Speaker: Shomir Wilson, Project Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University Thursday, Mar 24, 2016 – 11:00am – 12:00pm – Engineering Building, Room 3507 Abstract: I will present results from my work on two topics. The first is usable privacy. Effectively communicating privacy choices and consequences to internet users is a persistent […]
Spatio-temporal Event Detection, Forecasting, and Modeling in Social Media
Speaker: Liang Zhao, Graduate Research Assistant at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Friday, March 25, 2016 – 11:00am – 12:00pm – Engineering Building, Room 3507 Abstract: Nowadays, social media has become an important social sensor for significant social issues such as influenza epidemics, social movements, and public sentiment. Spatiotemporal […]
On body and Out of body Interactions
Speaker: Dr Jessica Cauchard, Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Computer Science, Stanford University Wednesday, Mar 23, 2016 – 3:00pm – 4:00pm – Engineering Building, Room 3507 Abstract: Mobile devices have become ubiquitous over the last decade, changing the way we interact with technology and with one another. Mobile devices were at […]
Human-Centric Interactive Visualization of Information
Speaker: Moushumi Sharmin, Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Memphis, Tennessee, USA Tuesday, May 5, 2015 – 11:00am – 12:00pm – Engineering Building, Room 2901 ABSTRACT Reappropriation of information is ubiquitous. For example, in the creative design domain, designers reappropriate existing information to gain inspiration, replicate success, avoid […]
Wearable Computing: Human Factors & Privacy
Speaker: Vivian Genaro Motti, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Clemson University, South Carolina, USA Monday, May 4, 2015 – 10:30am – 11:30am – Engineering Building, Room 2901 ABSTRACT The integration of computational capabilities in clothing and accessories enables wearable computers to be applied in several domains, including: healthcare, fitness, interaction support and […]
Mining Unstructured Social Data for Behavioral Computing and User Modeling
Speaker: Hemant Purohit, PhD Candidate, Wright State University, Ohio, USA Wednesday, May 6, 2015 – 11am – 12pm – Engineering Building, Room 2901 ABSTRACT Social Media or Web 2.0, one source of Big Data, has completely revolutionized information consumption, management, and processing. The opportunity to understand and exploit such data […]