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

Interim Dean; Professor

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

Aditya Parameswaran

Associate Professor (I School and EECS)

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

Neural Dynamics of a Single Human with Long-Term, High Temporal Density Electroencephalography

Nov 5, 2021

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

Human-computer Interaction (HCI) news

Jen King Addresses FTC on Mobile Advertising & Privacy Disclosures

May 24, 2012

Ph.D. student Jen King presents to the Federal Trade Commission at a day-long workshop on advertising and privacy disclosures in online and mobile media May 30 in Washington, D.C.

Coye Cheshire <br />(Photo by <a href="http://bit.ly/GOgROu">Heather Ford</a>)

A Sociologist’s Guide to Trust

Mar 22, 2012

Professor Coye Cheshire analyzes how people decide who to trust, and how to design systems to help build trusting communities.

I School Scholars Present at Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Conference

Feb 9, 2012

Marti Hearst Predicts the Future of Search User Interfaces

Nov 3, 2011

The future of search will include speech input, social searching, and natural language queries, according to I School professor Marti Hearst.

Five Ph.D. Students to Present at 4S Conference

Oct 31, 2011

Ph.D. students Megan Finn, Elisa Oreglia, Stuart Geiger, Christo Sims, and Bob Bell present their research on technology circulation in China, information dissemination for humanitarian relief efforts, online communities in physical space, gender and identity in digital youth culture, and African entrepreneurship, in at the annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science.

New Blog Explores Ethnography and Technology

Oct 14, 2011

A new blog, “Ethnography Matters,” was launched this week by assistant professor Jenna Burrell and I School alumnae Heather Ford and Rachelle Annechino (MIMS ’11). The blog will focus on ethnography and technology, with practical advice for practicing ethnographers and other technology researchers.

I School Researchers Explore Wikipedia's Gender Gap

Oct 3, 2011

Recent studies show that Wikipedia is predominantly written by men. Now a team of I School researchers is looking under the surface of the gender gap, exploring differences in the type and size of the Wikipedia updates made by men and women.

Most Facebook Users are Very Uncomfortable With App Data-Sharing — But Use The Apps Anyway

Jul 15, 2011

Although most Facebook users claim to be very uncomfortable with how third-party apps use their personal information, their actual behavior doesn’t reflect this concern, a new study by School of Information researchers has discovered.

I Schoolers Present at Pervasive Computing Conference

Jun 13, 2011

Ph.D. student Daniela Rosner is one of the organizers of this week’s Pervasive Computing conference, which also features a demonstration of a 2010 I School master’s final project.