Human-computer Interaction (HCI)

Faculty, students, and scholars from the School of Information will be delivering papers and participating in workshops at this year’s CHI conference in Yokohama, Japan.

The UC Berkeley School of Information is launching IceBerk, a multidisciplinary lab focused on using informatics for climate empowerment.

In an episode of The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper, an AI-generated version of the news anchor, made by Professor Hany Farid and his undergrad intern Matyas Bohacek, was incorporated into the broadcast.

In response to recent calls for researchers to address ongoing environmental crises, School of Information Ph.D. student Yangyang Yang and Professor Kimiko Ryokai have created “Being The Creek,” a project that utilizes mobile augmented reality (MAR) to help people experience Berkeley’s natural environment and its history from the perspective of Strawberry Creek.

Dr. Jeremy Gordon (Ph.D. ’23) presented his UC Berkeley School of Information dissertation “Embodying the Future: Modeling Visually Guided Planning as Prospective Mental Simulation” on Thursday, November 9, 2023

University of California, Berkeley, School of Information professor Coye Cheshire, along with colleagues at the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare and UC San Francisco, recently won a $300K grant from the UC Noyce Initiative on computational precision health to study the extent of the problem, and what might be done to combat it. 

Hearst has begun explicitly studying the relationship between language — especially written text — and information visualization. She put various ideas together in a paper in the Communications of the ACM this October of 2023.

‘Tis the season for political pundits, patriotic advertisements, presidential debates…and deepfakes?!

In the recently published Speak, Memory: An Archaeology of Books Known to ChatGPT/GPT-4, I School Associate Professor David Bamman reveals much about what is known and remains to be known about the large language model (LLM) fueling ChatGPT.