Seminar Series
Select Fridays from 2-3 p.m. during the academic year, the department organizes a Friday seminar, for which it typically brings in outside speakers. All seminars are open to anyone who wants to attend. The seminars are an excellent opportunity to be inspired by what others are doing, learn about the state of the art and interact with influential researchers from across the world.
For the Spring 2022 quarter, the seminars will be streamed live on Zoom for the public using Meeting ID 984 6164 8864. https://uci.zoom.us/j/98461648864. In-person attendance is encouraged for UCI students, faculty, researchers, and staff when the seminars resume on campus. Please check back for seminar updates as scheduling changes throughout the quarter.
Winter 2020 Seminars

Eye Tracking Tools for Research on Individuals and Teams
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Pomona College

The Joy of Search: Adventures in Teaching Online Research Skills (And Why That’s Important for Software Engineering)
Senior Research Scientist for Search Quality and User Happiness, Google

Playful Social Engineering: Technology for Being Together
Professor, Department of Computational Media, UC Santa Cruz

A New Jim Code? Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life
Associate Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University

Worldmaking in the Pudding Court: Acculturation, Collaboration, and Power in Tabletop Roleplaying Games
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University

The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games
Assistant Professor, Department of Film and Media Studies, UC Irvine

Future of Mental Health Sensing – Call to Arms
Albert Bradley 1915 Third Century Professor in Computer Science, Dartmouth College

At Once Comprehensive and Minute: South Asian Data’s Long Twentieth Century
Professor of History and Affiliated Faculty in Informatics, UC Irvine
Fall 2019 Seminars

State of the Department
Professor & Chair, Department of Informatics, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, UC Irvine

We Are All Well: A Partial History of Public Information Infrastructures after Disasters
Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Washington

Staying in Place, Surviving Networks: Coalition and Collaboration in Communities of Feminist Digital Media
Assistant professor, School of Theater, Film, and Television, UCLA

Inclusive and Engaged Research
Vice Provost of Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate Division, UC Irvine

Engineering Failure for Learning: Debugging by Design
Lori and Michael Milken President’s Distinguished Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Building a Future for Theatrical Play: Designing for Expressive Participatory Mixed Reality Performance
Assistant Professor, Department of Informatics, UC Irvine

In This Game That We’re Playing: George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Video Games
Associate Professor, Department of Film and Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz
The Future of Informatics Research: A Showcase of Scholarship from Informatics Doctoral Candidates
Informatics Ph.D. Candidates, UC Irvine
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