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

Meet Our 2020 Award-Winning Junior Faculty

Apr 29, 2020

Several young faculty have receive presitigous awards and fellowships in 2020: Aditya Parameswaran, Josh Blumenstock and David Bamman.

Aditya Parameswaran Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship

Feb 12, 2020

The Sloan Research Fellowship is given to the brightest up-and-coming scientists in the United States.

Morgan Ames on Silicon Valley’s Obsession with Tech-Free Schools

Sep 20, 2019

Virtual Reality as a Medical Aid: Dylan Fox Leads Prototyping at Cal

Sep 20, 2019

NPR Shares danah boyd’s Advice to Parents on Tech Use

Jul 21, 2019

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Hany Farid Shares How ‘Dumbfakes’ Will Disrupt the 2020 Election

Jul 19, 2019

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Researchers From the I School and Engineering Use Facial Quirks to Unmask ‘Deepfakes’

Jun 18, 2019

Prof. Hany Farid and graduate student Shruti Agarwal have created a new forensic approach that can use the subtle characteristics of how a person speaks to recognize whether a new video of that individual is real or a fake.

Shazeda Ahmed on the Messy Truth About Social Credit

Apr 23, 2019

Ph.D. student Shazeda Ahmed writes that foreign media has painted a dystopian portrait of China’s social credit system. The reality is both less coherent and more complex.

I School Team Reimagines “Privacy by Design,” and Wins Best Paper Award

Dec 6, 2018

Instead of looking for design solutions to fix existing problems in privacy, I School researchers used speculative design fictions to explore the potential privacy issues that may arise in future uses and adoptions of emerging biosensing technologies.

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Fact or Science Fiction? Using your Thoughts to Enter a Password

Dec 4, 2018

I School researchers have developed a custom-fit earpiece that that can capture “passthoughts” through brainwave signals from the ear canal, and for the first time demonstrated one-step three-factor authentication.