Technology and Social Behavior
Speaker Series, 2010-2011
Northwestern University
TSB Joint PhD in Computer Science and Communication
School of
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Date Time Speaker Affiliation Title (click for abstract) Location
Oct 21 4pm David Millen IBM Research Social Computing in the Global Workplace: Connecting People and Connecting Work Frances Searle 2-115


Nov 18 4pm Leysia Palen University of Colorado, Boulder Crisis Informatics Frances Searle 2-115


Jan 20 4pm Eytan Adar University of Michigan Inference on the Social Web: Tales of Translating Wikipedia and Bad Vision Frances Searle 2-407


Feb 24 4pm Dan Cosley Cornell University Systems for supporting self-awareness through reflecting on social media Frances Searle 2-407


Mar 31 4pm Susan T. Dumais Microsoft Research Temporal Dynamics and Information Retrieval Frances Searle 2-115


Apr 7 4pm Joseph A. Konstan University of Minnesota Help is Out There: Online Community, Community Artifacts, and a New Way of Harnessing Knowledge Frances Searle 2-115


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Previous Talks (2009-2010):

Oct 27 12pm Barbara Rogoff UC Santa Cruz Cultural Aspects of Learning: Observation, Collaboration, and Multimodal Conversation Frances Searle 1-483


Oct 29 4pm Dan Jurafsky Stanford University It's Not You, it's Me: Automatically Extracting Social Meaning from Speed Dates Frances Searle 1-421


Nov 12 4pm Shinobu Kitayama University of Michigan The Social Self and the Social Brain: A Perspective of Cultural Neuroscience Frances Searle 1-421


Dec 10 4pm Cynthia Breazeal MIT Media Lab Robots as Social Learners Ford 1.350 (ITW)
(directions)


Jan 21 4pm Pamela Hinds Stanford University Situated Knowing Who: Why Site Visits Matter in Global Work Tech LR2
(directions)


Feb 18 4pm Fernanda Viégas IBM Research Visualizing the Inner Lives of Texts Frances Searle 1-421


Mar 11 4pm Elizabeth Churchill Yahoo! Research Content, action and meaning: Why it is time to rethink the word 'social' as we Buzz through FlickTwitFaceSpace Frances Searle 1-421


Apr 29 4pm Matthew Kam Carnegie Mellon University MILLEE: Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies Frances Searle 1-421
(directions)


May 13 4pm Jenna Burrell UC Berkeley Evaluating Shared Access: Social Equality and the Circulation of Mobile Phones in Rural Uganda Frances Searle 1-421
(directions)





Previous Talks (2008-2009):

Date Time Speaker Affiliation Title (click for abstract) Location
Sep 25 4pm Jonathan Grudin Microsoft Enterprise Uses of Emerging Technologies Frances Searle 1-421


Oct 23 4pm Gloria Mark University of California, Irvine Multi-tasking in the Workplace: Tasks, Information, and Interaction Contexts Frances Searle 1-421


Nov 13 4pm Michael Tanenhaus University of Rochester Eye Movements and Spoken Language Comprehension: From Speech Perception to Interactive Conversation Frances Searle 1-421


Jan 15 4pm Michael Schober The New School Being Copresent with Virtual Partners Frances Searle 1-483


Feb 26 4pm Pierre Dillenbourg EPFL Two Facets of Collaboration Technologies: Dual Eye Tracking and Interactive Furniture Frances Searle 1-483


Mar  5 4pm Brian Scassellati Yale University Social Robots and Human Social Development Frances Searle 1-483


May 21 4pm Judy Olson University of California, Irvine Distance Collaboration: What makes it successful? Frances Searle 2-370





Previous Talks (2007-2008):

Date Time Speaker Affiliation Title (click for abstract) Location
Oct  4 4:00pm Edwin Hutchins UCSD The multimodal production of common ground understandings Room 1-421, Frances Searle Building


Nov  8 4:00pm Paul Dourish UC Irvine The Accountability of Presence: Location Tracking beyond Privacy Room 1-441, Frances Searle Building


Dec  7 12:30pm Marilyn Walker University of Sheffield Generating Language with Personality for Dialogue Systems Frances Searle 2-407


Jan 10 4:00pm Steve Whittaker University of Sheffield Digital Memories: Do We Need Them? Ford ITW


Feb  7 4:00pm Luis von Ahn Carnegie Mellon University Human Computation Ford ITW


Feb 28 12:00pm Sara Kiesler CMU Collaborating with Robots: A Peek into the Future of Human Robot Interaction Ford ITW


Apr 17 4:00pm Rosalind Picard MIT Emotional Intelligence Technology and Autism Frances Searle 1-483


May 15 4:00pm Wendy Kellogg IBM Ten Years of Social Computing at IBM Frances Searle 1-483





Previous Talks (2006-2007):

Date Time Speaker Affiliation Title (click for abstract) Location
Sep 28 4:00pm Brenda Laurel California College of the Arts Innovation and Creativity in Design Research Frances Searle Building, Rm. 1-421
(directions)


Oct 12 4:00pm Gregory D. Abowd Georgia Tech Hold that Thought! Why I care about automating the capture of everyday activities. Frances Searle Building, Rm. 1-421
(directions)


Nov 17 noon Jonathan Gratch USC Emotions in Human-Agent Interactions Frances Searle Building, Rm. 2-115
(directions)


Feb  8 4:00pm Sotaro Kita University of Birmingham Gesture and Culture Frances Searle Building, Rm. 1-421


Mar  1 4:00pm Donna Haraway UCSC When Species Meet: Cyborgs and Dogs in Entangled NatureCultures McCormick Tribune Center Forum Room
(directions)


Apr  5 4:00pm Susan Brennan S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook See Where I'm Looking: Monitoring a Partner's Eyegaze During Collaboration on Time-Critical Tasks Frances Searle Building, Rm. 1-483
(directions)


Apr 26 4:00pm Timothy Lenoir Duke University Biointerface: contemplating the singularity (co-hosted with MTS) Frances Searle Building, Rm. 1-483
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May  3 4:00pm Ramesh Srinivasan UCLA Cross-cultural discourses and digital systems - Reciprocal Interactions (co-hosted with MTS) Frances Searle Building, Rm. 1-483
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Previous Talks (2005-2006):

Date Time Speaker Affiliation Title (click for abstract)
Oct 28 4:00pm Bruno Latour Sciences Po Making Things Public

Please view this film online before attending the talk: http://www.soc.northwestern.edu/justine/Latour.htm


Oct 31 4:00pm Bruno Latour Sciences Po Group Reading/Seminar - Nature at the Cross-Road: The Bifurcation of Nature and Its End
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Nov 10 4:00pm Jeremy Bailenson Stanford Transformed Social Interaction in Immersive Virtual Reality


Dec  2 12:00pm Anne Holohan University of Trento The Knights Who Say 'Ni': How Teamwork and Forums Facilitate Online Collaboration


Jan 13 4:00pm Robert Kraut CMU Success in online groups


Feb 16 4:00pm David Mindell MIT Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in the First Six Lunar Landings


Mar 31 12:00pm Linda Jackson Michigan State Home Internet Use in Low-income Families: Antecedents, Consequences and Research-in-Progress


Apr 14 12:00pm Sarah Igo U. Penn Statistical Publics: Mid-Twentieth- Century Surveys and their Subjects


May 18 4:00pm Batya Friedman University of Washington Privacy By Design





Previous Talks (2004-2005):

Date Time Speaker Affiliation Title (click for abstract)
Oct  7 4:15pm Genevieve Bell Intel 4 god so luvd da world: An Ethnographic Look at the Uneasy Mixing of Religion and Technology


Oct 21 4:15pm Jeff Hancock Cornell Digital Deception: When, Where & How People Lie Online


Nov  5 4:15pm James Pennebaker U Texas How the Words We Use Reflect Who We Are


Jan 20 4:00pm Paul Resnick U Michigan Motivating Contributions to Online Communities


Feb 18 4:00pm Warren Sack UC Santa Cruz Public Space, Public Discussion and Social Computing


Mar  3 4:00pm Amy Bruckman Georgia Tech Social Balance: Designing Information Technology to Foster New Social Structures and Patterns of Human Relationships


Apr 29 12pm Fred Turner Stanford How Counterculture Became Cyberculture: Revisiting the WELL and the Origins of Virtual Community


May 13 4pm Henry Jenkins (co-sponsored with Screen Cultures) MIT Searching for the Origami Unicorn: The Matrix, Transmedia Storytelling, and Convergence Culture




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