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

Marti Hearst Named to the CHI Academy

Feb 23, 2017

Hearst’s HCI research includes user interfaces for search, information visualization of text, web site usability, and innovation in education.

Color-Changing “Smart Thread” Turns Fabric into a Computerized Display

Jun 6, 2016

The smart fabric could be used to create clothes with dynamically changing colors or patterns. But who would wear clothes that double as a computer display? And why? New research explores these questions.

New Center to Fund Research on Technology, Society, and Policy

Sep 15, 2015

Is technology affecting our mental health? Can technology support free speech and still protect against harassment? How do we embed our biases in big data algorithms? The Center for Technology, Society & Policy wants to explore these questions and more.

School of Information Releases First-of-its-Kind Synchronized Brainwave Research Dataset

Mar 18, 2015

The dataset could help answer whether it’s possible to accurately use consumer-grade devices to interpret attention level in a problem-solving test. The class hopes that other researchers will be able to repeat the experiment with even larger subject pools.

Why the Facebook Experiment is Lousy Social Science

Aug 28, 2014

Facebook is grappling with its impact on our social and emotional lives — and that’s a good thing. But it has to get the research right. Why Facebook did the experiment, and how to make it better.

Being the Machine: A Student's Journey to Becoming a Human 3D Printer

Jan 20, 2015

Machines increasingly do humans’ jobs. But what happens when a human performs a machine’s tasks? A new project by doctoral student Laura Devendorf explores that role reversal, with unexpected insights into the creative process how people interact with machines.

I School Research on Human-Computer Interaction at CHI Conference 2014

Apr 28, 2014

School of Information faculty and students are presenting their research on human-computer interaction in Toronto this week at the annual CHI conference.

Tapan Parikh Is a Sloan Foundation Rising Star

Feb 18, 2014

Parikh is transforming the world’s poorest areas by designing, evaluating, and deploying appropriate information systems that support sustainable economic development.

I School Faculty & Students Head to Paris for CHI 2013

Apr 25, 2013

Eight I School faculty and students will be presenting their research at the upcoming CHI Conference in Paris, France.

New headsets use a single sensor resting against the forehead. (<a href="http://flic.kr/p/6abfCp">photo by Cory Doctorow</a>)

New Research: Computers That Can Identify You by Your Thoughts

Apr 3, 2013

Instead of typing your password, in the future you may only have to think your password. A new School of Information study explores the feasibility of brainwave-based computer authentication as a substitute for passwords.