Events Category: Colloquium

In this talk, Dr. Gadiraju will discuss opportunities in crowd computing to propel better AI technology, and argues that to make such progress, fundamental problems need to be tackled from both the computational and interactional standpoints. Event Details

This talk describes some of the human and technical barriers that impact learners’ ability to utilize online learning resources and technology, how human-centered design can address some of these barriers, and additional areas to consider to make online education more inclusive and accessible. Event Details

This colloquium includes talks from two presenters from the University of Texas at Austin. Event Details

In this talk Lehdonvirta draws on his new book "Cloud Empires" to explore the failure of the decentralized Internet, the rise of the platform economy, and what history teaches us about holding autocrats accountable. Event Details

In this talk, Khan proposes deep-learning based frameworks to obtain state-of-the-art results for extracting structured events from natural language text in political and social sciences domains. Event Details

This talk, featuring iSchool alum Javed Mostafa, will discuss opportunities to enhance the full scholarly information life-cycle by designing and deploying innovative human-information applications—starting with idea generation and ending with new scholarly information dissemination. Event Details

In this talk, Williams will describe how to bring a human computer interaction (HCI) approach to enabling an Upcycled IoT by both studying how households use everyday objects and building lightweight, customizable technology to integrate with these possessions. Event Details

In this talk, Li will present her research on data labor, a framework that explicates the relationship between data and power, in mitigating the problematic power imbalance between the public and technology companies. Event Details

In this talk, Zou shares findings from her research on hurdles that prevent people from adopting secure behaviors and solutions that encourage adoption in three domains: designing data breach notifications, informing privacy interface guidelines in regulations, and supporting survivors of tech-enabled abuse. Event Details

In this talk, Seering will describe qualitative and quantitative research that gives shape to the social dynamics underlying content moderation, and he argues that these social dynamics offer opportunities for new social and technical approaches to content moderation. Event Details