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The question of who gets to contribute to design futures and technology innovation is an important topic across design and computing fields. This conversation has grave implications for communities…
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Christina Harrington Date
March 18th, 2021
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Imagine a world where the Internet caters to all types of users and hosts trustworthy content. Right now, this world seems far off for many reasons. For instance, this world would require us to think…
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Marshini Chetty Date
April 1st, 2021
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Ceara Byrne: Technology for Working and Service DogsIn the Animal Computer Interaction (ACI) lab, I create and study technologies that improve communication between working dogs, such as dogs trained…
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Ceara Byrne, Azra Ismail, Koustuv Saha Date
February 18th, 2021
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As a design researcher and educator working in human-computer interaction, I often find myself in the business of "empowering" students by teaching them design. As a professor, I write…
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Laura Devendorf Date
March 11th, 2021
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Mobile network operators (MNOs) are a critical component of today’s Internet access landscape. Originally borne of wireline voice telephony access, innovations in wireless data connectivity…
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Kurtis Heimerl Date
March 4th, 2021
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When social media is perceived only as a vehicle for posting personal
history narratives, the potential for using its affordances to create
literary narratives is lost. We can use social…
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Krystina Madej biography
Dr. Krystina Madej is Professor of the Practice at Georgia Tech in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication. She researches and teaches about how humans have adapted their narratives to changing media throughout the centuries, Disney's approach to stories across media since the 1920s, and physical play and children's interaction with narrative-based digital games. Her books include Interactivity, Collaboration, and Authoring in Social Media, Physical Play and Children’s Digital Games, and the edited book Engaging Imagination and Developing Creativity. A second edition of the co-authored book Disney Stories: Getting to Digital, first published in 2012, was released in November 2020. Date
February 25th, 2021
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On July 15, 1994, I began my career on the faculty in the College
of Computing at Georgia Tech. Throughout my career, I have cherished the
over half a dozen opportunities I have had to give GVU…
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Gregory Abowd biography
Gregory D. Abowd is a Regents’ Professor and J.Z. Liang Chair in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, where he has been on the faculty since 1994. He also serves as an Associate Dean in the College of Computing. An applied computer scientist, Dr. Abowd's research interests concern how the advanced information technologies of mobile, wearable and ubiquitous computing impact our everyday lives when they are seamlessly integrated into our living spaces. Dr. Abowd's work has involved applications as diverse as education (Classroom 2000), home life (The Aware Home) and health (technology and autism, CampusLife). He and his current and former students are active inventors of new sensing and interaction technologies. He has recently helped to co-create an interdisciplinary research effort, COSMOS, which investigates the collaboration of materials, manufacturing, electronics, computing and design to explore an alternative future computing industry. Dr. Abowd is an ACM Fellow and a member of the ACM SIGCHI Academy. As of March 1, 2021 Dr. Abowd will be the Dean of Engineering at Northeastern University in Boston. Date
February 11th, 2021
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the close of 2020, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and
Medicine released the report, Information Technology Innovation:
Resurgence, Confluence, and Continuing Impact. As the…
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Elizabeth D. Mynatt biography
Elizabeth D. "Beth" Mynatt is a Regents’ and Distinguished Professor in the College of Computing and the Executive Director of Georgia Tech’s Institute for People and Technology that pursues innovative research to promote healthy, productive and fulfilling lives on a global scale. Mynatt serves on the National Academies Computer Science and Telecommunications Board and the NSF CISE Advisory Board. She has been recognized as an ACM Fellow and a member of the ACM SIGCHI Academy. She is an expert in human-centered computing, interaction design, health informatics, ubiquitous computing, and assistive technology. Her career spans over 20 years at Georgia Tech and previously at Xerox PARC. At Georgia Tech, she was the founding director of the Human-Centered Computing PhD program, past director of the GVU Center, and past director of the HCI MS program. Date
January 21st, 2021
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While STEM fields possess the capacity to analyze the technical and organizational properties of digital interfaces, services, and their associated user practices, they are underequipped to evaluate…
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André Brock biography
André Brock is an associate professor of media studies at Georgia Tech. His scholarship examines racial representations in videogames, black women and weblogs, whiteness, blackness, and digital technoculture, as well as innovative and groundbreaking research on Black Twitter. His forthcoming book titled *Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures* will be published with NYU Press in February 2020, offering an innovative approach to understanding Black everyday lives mediated by digital technologies Date
October 22nd, 2020
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The web enables people to interact with one another and shape opinion at
an unprecedented speed and scale. However, the prevalence of
disinformation and malicious users makes the web unsafe and…
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Srijan Kumar email
srijan@gatech.edu biography
Srijan Kumar is an Assistant Professor of Computing at Georgia Tech. His research develops data science solutions to address the high-stakes challenges on the web and in the society. He has pioneered the development of user models and network science tools to enhance the well-being and safety of users. His methods to predict malicious users and false information have been widely adopted in practice (being used in production at Flipkart and Wikipedia) and taught at graduate level courses worldwide. He has received several awards including the Facebook Faculty Award, Adobe Faculty Award, ACM SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award runner-up 2018, Larry S. Davis Doctoral Dissertation Award 2018, and 'best of' awards from WWW and ICDM. His research has been the subject of a documentary and covered in popular press, including CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, and New York Magazine. He completed his postdoctoral training at Stanford University, received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Maryland, College Park, and B.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Date
September 17th, 2020
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The GVU Center and the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT), with additional support from GTRI support two separate types of grant proposals. Research Grants provide seed funding for new…
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Brooke Bosely, Susana Morris, Lelia Glass, Laura Levy, Andrew Partridge, Sean Mulvanity, Jon Sanford, Thomas Ploetz, Anne Sullivan, Mark Riedl, Emily Weigel, Adam Beteul, David Anderson, Mattew Swarts Date
March 5th, 2020
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There is increasing excitement about reinforcement learning--a subarea of machine learning for enabling an agent to learn to make good decisions. Yet numerous questions and challenges remain for…
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Emma Brunskill Date
February 27th, 2020
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Imagine a 1D curve, then use it to fill a 2D manifold that covers an arbitrary 3D object – this computationally intensive materials challenge has been realized in the ancient technology known…
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Elisabetta Matsumoto Date
February 20th, 2020
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Georgia Tech has been at the forefront of sustainability since its inception in the 1880's. This is evidenced by the fact that the original brick buildings on campus were made from indigenous…
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Howard Wertheimer Date
February 13th, 2020
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Rico is a publicly available dataset of user interfaces from 9.7k Android apps produced in a collaboration between Google and UIUC. The dataset contains screenshots, user interface hierarchies, and…
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Jeffrey Nichols Date
February 6th, 2020
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Science journalist Eva Wolfangel has specialized in investigating the effects of future technologies on society - by accompanying people who already make intensive use of these technologies today.…
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Eva Wolfangel Date
January 30th, 2020
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