Events

Dr. Catherine Burns will be giving a talk titled "Human Factors in the World of the Internet of Things" at the Psychology Cognitive Seminar in the Department of Psychology on January 29, 2015. 

Adam Fourney, a PhD candidate from the Human Computer Interaction Lab (David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science) will be giving a talk this Friday February 13th, 2015.

Researcher, technologist, and entrepreneur Wayne Zachary will present a webinar entitled "Introduction to Qualitative Methods for Human Factors Analyses" on Tuesday, March 10, 2015, from 12:00–1:30 a.m.

An upcoming talk on Natural Human-Computer Interaction for the Creation of Life-like Experience in Immersive Environment (virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed-reality, etc.) by Dr. Ling Guan (Ryerson U.)

Our treasurer, Nippun Goyal (from CSL) will be presenting his work on "Data exploration techniques to study semantically overlaid geospatial data using a tablet and a digital tabletop"at the Systems Design Engineering Graduate Seminar this Wednesday (April 8, 2015) at 1PM in E5-6111.

Jordanna Kwok, a past AIDL masters student, will be giving a talk this Thursday May 14. (topic TBD)

Location: E5-6127

Jordanna is currently a senior UI engineering at Netflix and has done some really interesting things since leaving AIDL.  

Drs. Lisette vanGemert-Pijnen and Olga Kulyk from the University of Twente will be giving a talk on "Persuasive Health Technology to Improve Health and Wellbeing" as part of the Biomedical Discussion Group Lecture series.

Dr. Jessica Cauchard, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University is visiting us on June 12th, Friday. She will give a talk "Projections.Vibrations.Interactions" at DC 2585, 11:30am-1pm. 
 

Affective communication and emotions are an important part of negotiations. Negotiation support and negotiation support systems, however, tend to neglect this aspect given measurement difficulties. In the presentation I will explore possibilities of "measuring" affect in communication and firstly show results of state of the art supervised machine learning techniques that could enable support systems to classify emotions expressed in ongoing negotiation communication.

UW HFES Student Chapter is kickstarting the new term Spring 2021 with a new series named Alumni Experience Series. The first event of the series will feature Damla Kerestecioglu, a Research Manager at TD Canada Trust. The event is scheduled for May 27, Thursday between 4-5PM (EST).