Human-computer Interaction (HCI)

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Morgan G. 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
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Professor
Biosensory computing; climate informatics; information economics and policy
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Interim Dean; Professor
Human-computer interaction, information visualization, computational linguistics, search and information retrieval, improving MOOCs and online education
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Associate Professor (I School and EECS)
Data management, interactive or human-in-the-loop data analytics, information visualization, crowdsourcing, data science
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Associate Professor
Human-computer interaction, tangible user interfaces
Niloufar Salehi is an assistant professor at the School of Information at UC Berkeley..
Assistant Professor

Recent Publications

The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child, by Morgan G. Ames
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.

May 8, 2019

This paper reviews HCI research on privacy and design to discuss how utilizing a broader range of design methods from HCI can help support “privacy by design” efforts.

Dec 15, 2018

What can machines know about the mind? This dissertation seeks to understand people’s beliefs about this question: how these beliefs affect and arise from interactions with digital sensors, from prior beliefs about the mind and the body; and how these beliefs may shape the design of technical systems in the future.

The purpose of this dissertation is twofold. First, it surfaces that the boundary between sensing bodies and sensing minds is unstable, deeply entangled with social context and beliefs about the body and mind. Second, it proposes the porousness of this boundary as a site for studying the role that biosensing devices will play in near future. As biosensors creep into smart watches, bands, and ingestibles, their ability to divine not just what these bodies do, but what they think and feel, presents an under-explored avenue for understanding and imagining how thesetechnologies will come to matter in the course of life.

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Human-computer Interaction (HCI) news

Ai-generated image of trusted female news anchor

In an episode of The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper, an AI-generated version of the news anchor, made by Professor Hany Farid and his undergrad intern Matyas Bohacek, was incorporated into the broadcast.

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In response to recent calls for researchers to address ongoing environmental crises, School of Information Ph.D. student Yangyang Yang and Professor Kimiko Ryokai have created “Being The Creek,” a project that utilizes mobile augmented reality (MAR) to help people experience Berkeley’s natural environment and its history from the perspective of Strawberry Creek.

AI-generated idea of "mental simulation"

Dr. Jeremy Gordon (Ph.D. ’23) presented his UC Berkeley School of Information dissertation “Embodying the Future: Modeling Visually Guided Planning as Prospective Mental Simulation” on Thursday, November 9, 2023

blonde woman holding phone at train station

University of California, Berkeley, School of Information professor Coye Cheshire, along with colleagues at the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare and UC San Francisco, recently won a $300K grant from the UC Noyce Initiative on computational precision health to study the extent of the problem, and what might be done to combat it. 

Marti Hearst in front of a AI-generated chart

Hearst has begun explicitly studying the relationship between language — especially written text — and information visualization. She put various ideas together in a paper in the Communications of the ACM this October of 2023.

ai-generated picture of election deepfake

‘Tis the season for political pundits, patriotic advertisements, presidential debates…and deepfakes?!

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In the recently published Speak, Memory: An Archaeology of Books Known to ChatGPT/GPT-4, I School Associate Professor David Bamman reveals much about what is known and remains to be known about the large language model (LLM) fueling ChatGPT. 

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