Join us for a guest lecture by Dr. Luigina Ciolfi!
Title: “Place-Sensitive Interaction Design: Augmenting Experiences in the Physical World”
Speaker: Luigina Ciolfi, Lecturer in Interaction Design in the Dept. of Computer Science and Information Systems, and Senior Researcher at the Interaction Design Centre at the University of Limerick, Ireland
Date: Thursday, February 16, 2012
Time: 10:30-11:30 AM
Location: Allen Auditorium, Allen Library, UW Seattle campus
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“Personalized Cyberlearning and Inventors Workshops”
Dr. Winslow Burleson
Arizona State University
WHEN: Tuesday, February 14th, Noon
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Join the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) on Tuesday, February 14, for a guest lecture by Dr. Andrés Monroy-Hernández.
Title: “Designing for Remixing: Computer-supported Social Creativity”
Speaker: Dr. Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Postdoctoral researcher, Microsoft Research; and Fellow, Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Date: Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Time: 9:00-10:00 AM
Location: Allen Auditorium, Allen Library, UW Seattle campus
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CulturalFest is one of the biggest annual cultural events in University of Washington. It is intended to celebrate diversity and harmony that international students bring to our region. It brings together over 100 participants from 30 countries who take the unique sights, sounds, tastes from their home countries in front of you.
During the day in Meany Hall, you may explore country exhibition booths, participate in interactive games and activities,and meet students from more than 30 countries. Booths are free and open to everyone.
In the evening, over 1,000 guests will fill the Meany Hall and enjoy music and dance performance of traditional and modern artistes from all over the world.
As the world is becoming more integrated, CULTURALFEST provides a great opportunity to mingle and become close friends with students from around the world. These global friendships among students are priceless assets in your future careers. Please join us at the CULTURALFEST on Feb 10. Continue reading
Please join the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) in Winter Quarter for a 10-week seminar on current topics in the HCDE field by industry experts. Each 40-minute talk will be followed by a Q&A session. Members of the UW community and the public are welcome. More information about the series is available online at hcde.uw.edu/521.
Title: Stating the Obvious: Why does it take an outsider to tell you your user experience is broken?
Date: February 10, 2012
Speaker: Kelly Franznick
When: Fridays, 12:30-1:20 PM
Where: Loew Hall, Room 206, UW Seattle campus
Business stakeholders can often seem blind to the most obvious flaws in the experiences they are delivering to their end-users. Sometimes the user research findings and design recommendations that have the most impact on businesses are not the result of hundreds of hours of observation or ideation, but of simply pointing out what these stakeholders are not seeing. This talk will show some examples, explore some of the reasons stakeholders develop these blind spots, and suggest some strategies for stating the obvious in ways that don’t condescend. Continue reading
Join us for a guest lecture by Yahoo! Research Scientist Judd Antin!
Title: “Towards Adaptive Incentive Systems for Online Collaboration”
Speaker: Judd Antin, Post-Doctoral Research Scientist, Yahoo! Research
Date: Friday, February 10, 2012
Time: 10:30-11:30 AM
Location: Allen Auditorium, Allen Library, UW Seattle campus
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Miss ScienceOnline 2012 but wish you had been there? Get a recap of “scio12” from five Seattle science communicators who attended the meeting and discuss the latest challenges and opportunities in communicating science online.
Topics will include: communicating personalized genomics, dealing with abuse over the internet, disconnects between scientists and journalists, crowdfunding for science, cybersecurity for blog posts, emails and other online activities, writing for men’s and women’s magazines, and more.
Join the Northwest Science Writers Association (NSWA) Tuesday, Feb. 7, 6-7:30 p.m. for pizza and discussion at the School of Aquatic Fishery Sciences, Room 107 on the UW Seattle campus (directions). RSVP to Molly McElroy (mcelroymw@gmail.com) by Monday, Feb. 6. Free for NSWA members, $5 for NSWA non-members. Continue reading
Innovation in Clean-Tech + Market Opportunity =
Solutions for the Planet
March 29, 2012, Seattle Center Exhibition Hall
Intent to Submit due February 10 Click here for the online application. Information requested on team members and the prototype/computer simulation. This helps us plan the event!
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If you’ve got a passion for cleantech, the smarts to play in the emerging “green economy,” and the desire to make an impact, the UW Environmental Innovation Challenge can provide just the platform you’ve been looking for. The grand prize is $10,000, and in all the EIC awards more than $27,500 to student teams.
In the UW Challenge, interdisciplinary student teams define a cleantech problem, design and develop the solution, and produce both a prototype (proof of concept/computer simulation) and a 5-7 page business summary that demonstrates the market opportunity. Continue reading