Michael Horn's Newly Published Book: Introduction to Digital Music with Python Programming
June 2022 Michael Horn's Newly Published Book: Introduction to Digital Music with Python Programming
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Alumna Patricia Bao Gifts the HCI+D Center
June 2022 Patricia Bao’s commitment is largest ever for Northwestern’s Center for Human-Computer Interaction and Design
from Northwestern Now
Unpaid social media moderators perform labor worth at least $3.4 million a year on Reddit alone
June 2022 Can regular users wield the value of their contributions as leverage against Big Tech?
from Northwestern Now
Designing Practical Technology Solutions
May 2022 DTR students Cindy Hu, Fardeem Munir, and Roxanna Wilcox earned top awards in the Undergraduate Category at the CHI 2022 Student Research Competition.
from Northwestern Engineering
DTR Film Premiere
May 2022 Premiere party for Forward, a documentary short film following Northwestern University’s Design, Technology, and Research (DTR) program led by associate professor Haoqi Zhang
Tech, Media, & Democracy
May 2022 TSB is organizing a virtual panel on the topic of Tech, Media & Democracy, featuring Chris Bail (Duke), Mor Naaman (Cornell Tech) and Rebekah Tromble (George Washington) in conversation with our own Ágnes Horvát, and in collaboration with our partners at the Center for HCI+D and the Center for Communication and Public Policy.
Product Innovation at DEKA Research and Development
May 2022 Join the Center for Robotics and Biosystems and the Center for Human-Computer Interaction + Design for a Seminar with Dean Kamen.
Making Art with AI: Tool, Collaborator, or Competitor?
April 2022 Making Art with AI: Tool, Collaborator, or Competitor?
Speaker Narges Mahyar
April 2022 Technology and Social Behavior Speaker Series
ACM SIGCHI 2022 Conference
April 2022 A list of all the papers with Northwestern authors from the CHI 2022 conference.
Speaker: Kate Bergeron
March 2022 Speaker Kate Bergeron VP of Hardware Engineering
Gregory D. Abowd: The Internet of Materials
February 2022 Gregory D. Abowd presents their talk: The Internet of Materials: The next logical step or a paradigm shift?
Tackling the Grand Challenges in Human Computer Interaction + Design
November 2021 Panelists discussed systemic obstacles and shared perspectives on their transition from academia to industry
from Northwestern Engineering
Center for Human Computer Interaction + Design Annual Report 2020-2021
September 2021 Center for Human Computer Interaction + Design Annual Report 2020-2021
Eleanor O’Rourke Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
May 2021 The award will support the improvement of learning and retention in introductory computer science courses
from Northwestern Engineering
Design Must be Taken Seriously Because of its Consequences
December 2020 Northwestern’s Center for Human-Computer Interaction + Design hosted a virtual roundtable on December 4
from Northwestern Engineering
Fri. Dec. 4, 1p.m: HCI + Design Thought Leaders Lecture: Pluriversal Design
November 2020 Join Northwestern’s Center for Human-Computer Interaction + Design (HCI+D) for an engaging conversation about the past, present, and future of design on December 4, 1-2 p.m., CST (via Zoom)
McCormick, School of Communication Launch Center for Human-Computer Interaction + Design
September 2020 Center to develop the future of human and computer interaction
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How to Self-Assemble Project Teams That Are Optimally Effective
November 2019 Noshir Contractor's team investigates how to self-assemble effective student- and faculty-based teams based on criteria such as learning, cohesiveness, and final performance.
from MyDreamTeam (MDT)
How Do People Change Their Technology Use in Protest?: Understanding "Protest Users"
November 2019 Professor Brent Hecht finds that “protest users” are motivated by concerns about business models that profit from user data and privacy. Common tactics including stopping use and leveraging ad blockers.
from ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
How Data Visualizations Can Clarify and Confound Uncertainty
October 2019 Jessica Hullman’s Scientific American article weighs pros and cons of common data visualizations.
from Northwestern Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence-Enhanced Journalism Offers a Glimpse of the Future of the Knowledge Economy
June 2019 Professor Nicholas Diakopoulos writes about AI enhanced journalism and the future of the knowledge economy.
from The Conversation