Every Friday from 2-4 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, and is followed by a social hour with drinks and snacks. 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.
Spring 2017 Seminar Videos:
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June 2
Cognitive Software Engineering: Helping Developers Work Successfully in a Cognitive World
Peri Tarr
Principal Research Staff Member, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center*ISR Research Forum Keynote Speaker
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June 9
Organized Science: Social Organization and Scientific Work at NASA
Janet Vertesi
Sociologist of Science and Technology, Princeton University -
May 26Organizational analytics: The promise of (big) data, machine learning, and predictive analytics
Jeanette Blomberg
Principal Research Staff Member, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, Ca -
May 19Game-Based Stroke Telerehabilitation: Challenges in Scaling to National Clinical Trials
Walt Scacchi
Senior Research Scientist, Institute for Software Research, Director of Research, Institute for Virtual Environments and Computer Games, UC, Irvine*Co-Sponsored by the Institute for Virtual Environments and Computer Games
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May 12Game Design and Tourism: Two Fields that Play Well Together!
Elizabeth Lane Lawley
Professor of Interactive Games & Media, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) -
April 28Automated Homes: Ethnographic Reflections on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Family Life
Veronica Barassi
Faculty, Convenor, BA Anthropology and Media Degree in the Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths University of London -
April 21Lessons Learned from Designing Interventions for Health and Wellbeing
Mary Czerwinksi
Principle Researcher, Research Manager, Visualization and Interaction (VIBE) Research Group -
April 14Towards a Context-Adaptive Checklist for Medical Emergencies
Aleksandra Sarcevic
Assistant Professor of Information Science, College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University -
April 7Sex & the AI: Queer and Virtual Intimacies from Her to Hurt Me Plenty
Jonathan Alexander
Chancellor’s Professor, English, Education, and Gender & Sexuality Studies, UC Irvine
Winter 2017 Seminar Videos:
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March 17, 2017Computational Craft: Lessons from Playful Experiences at the Intersection of HCI, Textiles, Games
Gillian Smith
Assistant Professor, Department of Art+Design and College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University -
March 10, 2017Uberization and the Future of Work
Jacki O’Neill
Human Computer Interaction Researcher, Microsoft, India -
March 3, 2017Software Debugging: Past, Present, and Future
Alex Orso
Professor and Associate School Chair, College of Computing, School of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
* Institute for Software Research Distinguished Speaker -
February 24, 2017Sensing (and making sense of) Health: From Computational Ethnography to The UbiScope
Nadir Weibel
Assistant Research Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego -
February 17, 2017Vernacular Visualization in the Management of Serious Mental Illness
Jaime Snyder
Assistant Professor, Information School, University of Washington -
February 10, 2017Code Search within Large Repositories: Problems, Solutions, Dreams
Otavio Lemus
Assistant Professor, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil -
February 3, 2017Designing to Help People Find Insights & Experiences in Personal Data
Sean Munson
Assistant Professor, University of Washington -
January 20, 2017The Elements of Decision Alignment: Large programs as complex organizations
Mark S. Miller
Research Scientist, Google
*Institute for Software Research Distinguished Speaker -
January 13, 2017Spreadsheets in Organizational Life: A Case Study in the Materialities of Information
Paul Dourish
Professor, Department of Informatics, UC Irvine
Fall 2016 Seminar Videos:
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December 2, 2016
From Á rebours to Avatar: Some Varieties of the Virtual Since 1884
Jonathan Alexander
Chancellor’s Professor, English, Education, and Gender & Sexuality Studies
UC Irvine -
November 18, 2016
Quality of Life: A Transformative Framework for Human-Centered Design
Gerhard Fischer
Professor Emeritus, Department of Computer Science, Fellow of the Institute of Cognitive Science, Director, Center for Lifelong Learning and Design (L3D)
University of Colorado at Boulder -
October 28, 2016
Technology and Deception
Judith Donath
Writer, Designer, & Artist
Trends In Society and Information Technology Speaker Series -
October 21, 2016
Creating, Sharing, and Privacy: Designing Social Technologies for Older Adults
Anne Marie Piper
Assistant Professor, Communication Studies
Northwestern University -
October 14, 2016
Living/Learning/Leading in a White Water World
John Seely Brown
Chief Scientist (Retired)
Xerox Corporation -
October 7, 2016
What Big Data Can’t Do
Geof Bowker
Professor, Department of Informatics
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, UC Irvine -
September 30, 2016
The Potential for Personalization in Web Search
Susan Dumais
Distinguished Scientist, Deputy Managing Director
Microsoft Research Lab -
September 23, 2016State of the Informatics Department
André van der Hoek
Professor & Chair, Department of Informatics
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, UC Irvine
