Human-computer Interaction (HCI)

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Morgan Ames

Assistant Professor of Practice
Alumni (MIMS 2006)

Science and technology studies; computer-supported cooperative work and social computing; education; anthropology; youth technocultures; ideology and inequity; critical data science

Coye Cheshire

Professor

Trust, social exchange, social psychology, and information exchange

John Chuang

Professor

Biosensory computing; climate informatics; information economics and policy

Marti Hearst

Head of School; Professor

Human-computer interaction, information visualization, computational linguistics, search and information retrieval, improving MOOCs and online education

Aditya Parameswaran

Associate Professor (I School and Computer Science)

Data management, interactive or human-in-the-loop data analytics, information visualization, crowdsourcing, data science

Kimiko Ryokai

Associate Professor

Human-computer interaction, tangible user interfaces

Recent Publications

Sensemaking and the Chemtrail Conspiracy on the Internet: Insights from Believers and Ex-believers

Oct 13, 2021

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Covert Embodied Choice: Decision-Making and the Limits of Privacy Under Biometric Surveillance

May 13, 2021

Sensor-Mediated Empathy: A Mixed Methods Investigation of Social Biosensing

Nov 12, 2020

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Securing Your Data From Breaches Will Help Us Improve Healthcare

Aug 2, 2020

When you go to a new healthcare clinic in the United States, doctors and nurses pull up your patient record based on your name and birthdate. Sometimes it’s not your chart they pull up. This is not only a healthcare problem; it’s a data science problem.

Values by Design Imaginaries: Exploring Values Work in UX Practice

Jul 30, 2020

Emotional Meaning Making with Data

May 15, 2020

How might data displays support emotional, social, and embodied ways of knowing with bodily data?

Infrastructural Speculations: Tactics for Designing and Interrogating Lifeworlds

Apr 1, 2020

This paper introduces "infrastructural speculations," an orientation towards speculation that aims to interrogate and ask questions about the broader lifeworld within which speculative artifacts sit, placing the lifeworld (rather than an individual artifact) at the center of a designer's concern.

In Search of a “Fair Explanation”: Helping Young People to Consider the Possibilities, Limitations, and Risks of Computer- and Data-Mediated Systems

Dec 1, 2019

This Thing Called Fairness: Disciplinary Confusion Realizing a Value in Technology

Nov 14, 2019

The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child

Nov 12, 2019

In The Charisma Machine, Morgan Ames chronicles the life and legacy of the One Laptop per Child project and explains why — despite its failures — the same utopian visions that inspired OLPC still motivate other projects trying to use technology to “disrupt” education and development.

Human-computer Interaction (HCI) news

Ph.D. Alum Investigates the Promises and Perils of the Virtual School System

Feb 3, 2023

Dr. Anne Jonas (Ph.D. ’21) returned to the I School on Monday, January 23, 2023 to present her dissertation, “Blank Slate: Freedom, Connection, and Accountability in U.S. Virtual Schools.”

Hany Farid Uses Deepfake Detector on Videos of Ukrainian President Zelenskyy

Dec 7, 2022

Jacob Glad working with the Burp Suite, the main tool used in the Web Application Security Assessment class, on his computer

New Cybersecurity Class Works With Information Security Office To Prevent UC Web Application Data Leaks

Dec 14, 2022

Conceived last September and officially launched this summer, the Web Application Security Assessment class, headed by lecturer Jennia Hizver, is addressing the major cybersecurity issue of web application data leaks.

Surreal or too real? Hany Farid Weighs in on AI tool DALL-E for NPR

Jul 20, 2022

Berkeley I School Researchers Examine Oakland’s School Choice System

Jul 7, 2022

I School Ph.D. Students Honored with NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Apr 18, 2022

Two I School Ph.D. students, Liza Gak and Seyi Olojo, have been offered the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award. Ph.D. student Tonya Nguyen received an honorable mention.

Niloufar Salehi and Maryland Researchers Win NSF Grant for Fairness in AI

Apr 14, 2022

I School Expert Wins Grant To Develop Language Translation Technology for High-Stakes Settings

Apr 14, 2022

Prof. Niloufar Salehi and other researchers have been awarded an NSF grant to develop language translation technology for high-stakes settings like hospitals. Additionally, Salehi was accepted to the William T. Grant Scholars Program.

Hany Farid Explains Signs that Zelenskyy Surrender Video is a Deepfake

Mar 16, 2022

Hany Farid on Deepfake Video of Zelenskyy: “It’s the Tip of the Iceberg”