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• HCI graduate students Jim Koopman and Alan Vetter are working to improve and expand the use of assistave technology at Iowa State.
— Iowa State University Office of the CIO: 04/26/2012
• You should get to know … Sondra Ashmore. Des Moines Register runs a business feature on HCI Ph.D. graduate Sondra Ashmore.
— Des Moines Register: 04/11/2012
• HCI faculty member Daniela Dimitrova examines how media coverage impacts campaigns worldwide.
— Ames Tribune: 02/25/2012
• Video game playing can compound kids' existing attention problems according to research by Douglas Gentile, an associate professor of psychology at Iowa State and HCI faculty member.
— ISU News Service: 02/23/2012
• A video game developed at Iowa State University is helping students understand biology better
— WHO TV: 02/22/2012
• Sondra Ashmore, PhD student in human computer interaction (HCI), is part of the Business Record’s Forty under 40 Business Leaders Class of 2012.
— ISU CoE News: 02/10/2012
Video recording of presentations.
Women In HCI Speakers for April 26, 2010 - Correia, Hofmann, Satterfield, Dickerson
April 26, 2010 at Noon
The HCI Graduate Program will host the final Women in HCI Lecture on Monday, April 26 at noon in Room 1344 Howe Hall. The lecture will be followed by a time for collaboration and discussion from 1-2 pm in the VRAC Conference Room. Refreshments will be served at 1 pm.
Four women from ISU's HCI faculty will present their research during the lecture.
Ana-Paula Correia, Assistant Professor in the Center for Technology Learning and Teaching and Human Computer Interaction, will present "Designing Learning Experiences for Global Virtual Teams." She will present findings from her research on collaborative learning in the context of global virtual teams. Opportunities, challenges, design tensions and lessons learned will be discussed.
Heike Hofmann, Associate Professor in Statistics and Human Computer Interaction, will present "How good is your eyeballing? - Measuring Statistical Graphics." Her graduate student, David Rockoff, will join her in the presentation. Abstract: Visual perception and cognition are key factors to take into account when evaluating the effectiveness of statistical graphics. William S. Cleveland and Robert McGill, in their seminal 1985 paper, defined the elementary graphical-perception tasks and ranked them in order of importance. There is a need for more in-depth research into how different visual elements affect perception and cognition. The "eyeballing" is an online game that measures a player’s accuracy on a variety of geometric tasks. We will present data on players’ results and rank task difficulties.
Debra Satterfield, Associate Professor in Art and Design and Human Computer Interaction, will present "Design for Behavioral Change and Design for Social Inclusion. Abstract: Design for Behavioral Change is design that helps model or direct positive changes in the behaviors and attitudes of the target audiences and constituent groups to their mutual benefit and the betterment of society. Design for Social Inclusion is design that breaks down social barriers and allows target audiences and constituent groups to meet and interact as full partners in their encounters. It considers the social, emotional, cognitive, motivational, and behavioral aspects of mediated experiences. Specifically, this research is focused on the design of educational experiences for children with cognitive disabilities and on medical experience design.
Julie Dickerson, Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Human Computer Interaction, will present "Visualizing and Understanding Biological Data." Abstract: The study of biological organisms has gone from studies of one or two genes and their functions at a time to studies of entire genomes (20-30 thousand genes) at a time over the last ten years. This has created tremendous problems for the interpretation of the data and putting it into a biological context. MetNetGE shows some novel visualizations for looking at changes over the entire organism.
All are invited to attend.