Events Category: Colloquium

Friday Jan. 20, 2023
Research
9:30 to 10:45 a.m.
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In this talk, Williams will present the outcomes and preliminary findings from three studies that sought to understand returning citizens’ engagement with digital technology, specific challenges that they face during job search, and potential interventions that could alleviate those challenges. Event Details

Tuesday Jan. 17, 2023
Research
12:45 to 2 p.m.
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In this talk, Payne will discuss working with The Filomen M. D'Agostino Greenberg Community School for BVI musicians (aka the Fil'). Together they built SoundCells, an accessible web application used to compose braille and large print music, and formed FiLOrk (Fil' Laptop Orchestra), a collaborative music coding ensemble made up of five BVI high school students. Event Details

Friday Jan. 13, 2023
Research
9:30 to 10:45 a.m.
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By discussing the history of library services to the Black community in Huntsville, Alabama as a case study, this talk explains how racism and urban renewal perpetuated epistemic injustice by destroying cultural heritage and narratives from marginalized communities. Event Details

Tuesday Jan. 10, 2023
Research
12:45 to 2 p.m.
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This talk offers an overview of the social and ethical implications of algorithmic and automated treatments as they move from care to capture to control across the second half of the 20th century into our present. Event Details

Tuesday Dec. 6, 2022
Research
12:30 to 2 p.m.
Hybrid: Zoom & UTA 5.522 (Large Conference Room)

This talk provides a basis for understanding brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) and overlapping concepts with the field of human-computer interaction through exemplar work at the Kennesaw State University BrainLab. Event Details

Tuesday Nov. 29, 2022
Research
12:30 to 2 p.m.
Hybrid: Zoom & UTA 5.522 (Large Conference Room)

This talk unveils the insights of a comprehensive study of several millions of teams from different academic fields about their team formation and team performance. Event Details

Tuesday Nov. 15, 2022
Research
12:30 to 2 p.m.
Hybrid: Zoom & UTA 5.522 (Large Conference Room)

This talk discusses evidence for how in some settings a better human-AI interaction paradigm may be to use the power of AI to construct actionable syntheses of the information to aid people in making their own well-informed decisions rather than recommending the ready made decisions to them. Event Details

Tuesday Nov. 8, 2022
Research
12:30 to 2 p.m.
Hybrid: Zoom & UTA 5.522 (Large Conference Room)

In this talk, Dr. Chignell reviews the history of HCI and Human Factors and then discusses future research issues in human-AI interaction and the need for more effective collaboration between human factors and HCI in order to address human-AI interaction challenges. Event Details

Tuesday Nov. 1, 2022
Research
12:30 to 2 p.m.
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This talk will cover three threads of Dr. Huang's work, including (1) a crowd-AI chatbot that holds conversations about any topic, (2) assisting writers in composing lengthy and complicated novels, and (3) empowering a local community to combat the pressing air pollution threats. Event Details