Events Category: Colloquium

By discussing the history of library services to the Black community in Huntsville, Alabama as a case study, this talk explains how racism and urban renewal perpetuated epistemic injustice by destroying cultural heritage and narratives from marginalized communities. Event Details

This talk offers an overview of the social and ethical implications of algorithmic and automated treatments as they move from care to capture to control across the second half of the 20th century into our present. Event Details

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This talk provides a basis for understanding brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) and overlapping concepts with the field of human-computer interaction through exemplar work at the Kennesaw State University BrainLab. Event Details

This talk unveils the insights of a comprehensive study of several millions of teams from different academic fields about their team formation and team performance. Event Details

This talk discusses evidence for how in some settings a better human-AI interaction paradigm may be to use the power of AI to construct actionable syntheses of the information to aid people in making their own well-informed decisions rather than recommending the ready made decisions to them. Event Details

In this talk, Dr. Chignell reviews the history of HCI and Human Factors and then discusses future research issues in human-AI interaction and the need for more effective collaboration between human factors and HCI in order to address human-AI interaction challenges. Event Details

This talk will cover three threads of Dr. Huang's work, including (1) a crowd-AI chatbot that holds conversations about any topic, (2) assisting writers in composing lengthy and complicated novels, and (3) empowering a local community to combat the pressing air pollution threats. Event Details

In this talk, Dr. Capra will discuss task complexity, the integration of searching within task activities, and tools to support different types of search tasks (e.g., learning, creative, procedural knowledge). Event Details

In this presentation, Dr. Belkin identifies characteristics of this rapidly developing environment that are especially salient for how we should conceive of support of people in their interactions with information in this milieu, and proposes a framework on which specific factors will need to be considered in the design of methods and circumstances for effective support. Event Details