Human-computer Interaction (HCI)

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Alumni (MIMS 2006)
Assistant Professor of Practice
Science and technology studies; computer-supported cooperative work and social computing; education; anthropology; youth technocultures; ideology and inequity; critical data science
Professor
Trust, social exchange, social psychology, and information exchange
Professor
Biosensory computing; climate informatics; information economics and policy
Professor
Human-computer interaction, information visualization, computational linguistics, search and information retrieval, improving MOOCs and online education
Associate Professor
Human-computer interaction, tangible user interfaces
Assistant Professor

Recent Publications

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.

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

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. 

Human-computer Interaction (HCI) news

A group of researchers, including the I School’s own Professor Kimiko Ryokai, recently received a grant of $1.29M from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to tackle this challenge.

Led by Professor John Chuang, Info 290: Climate, People, and Informatics seeks to explore the burgeoning field of climate informatics and equip students with the necessary language and contextual knowledge to contribute. 

Kevin Lustig and Ando Shah have been awarded the 2022–23 Quigley/Heffernan Family Environmental Fellowship.