Brown Bag Lunch Schedule
The HCIL has an open semi-organized weekly "brown bag lunch (BBL)" on every Thursdays from 12:30-1:30pm in HCIL (2105 Hornbake, South Wing). The topics range from someone's work, current interest to the HCIL, a software demo/review, a study design, a proposed research topic, an introduction to a new person, etc. The BBL is the one hour a week where we all come together--thus, it’s a unique time for HCIL members with unique opportunities to help build collaborations, increase awareness of each other’s activities, and generally just have a bit of fun together with free food every week.
2013 fall, BBL will be transformed a bit to help increase engagement and strengthen ties in the HCIL community. There will be a wider range of sessions and each one will be organized a little differently than before. In doing so, Michael and Tak will take BBL student co-coordinator role.
To sign up for a session, send an email to BBL co-coordinators Michael Gubbels (mgubbels@umd.edu) or Tak Yeon Lee (tylee@umd.edu). In the email, briefly describe the topic and preferred dates.
We thank YAHOO! for its sponsorship of the HCIL Brown Bag Lunches. To get notified about upcoming events, please subscribe one of these mailing lists.
Fall 2013
| Who | Type | Topic | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Th, Sept 5 | No Brown Bag. Rosh Hashanah. | ||
| Th, Sept 12 | Jon Froehlich Assistant Professor in CS and HCIL faculty member http://www.cs.umd.edu/~jonf/ |
Talk/Discussion | HCIL Hackerspace |
| Th, Sept 19 | HCIL/HCI Graduate Students facilitated by Michael Gubbels and Tak Yeon Lee | Talk/Discussion |
The goal of this session is to provide several students at various points in their academic programs , but especially new students, with a chance to talk about (1) their interests, (2) the projects to which they've contributed, and (3) those they'd like to do. Our hope is that this will allow new students to introduce themselves and convey their interests in a way that helps them find others with shared interests and form working relationships on projects with professors and other students. Students will have 5–8 minutes to introduce themselves and their interests, their previous and current projects, skills and expertise, and their future interests in HCI and the HCIL. Hopefully, this will help new students connect with professors and other students with whom they share interests and can work together on research projects. Following talks will be about 10 minutes for discussion with the presenting students (perhaps for asking them to join a project team). |
| Wed, Sept 25 | Jonathan Donner | External Speaker |
Everybody’s internet? :Designing for mobile-centric internet users in the developing world Within 5 years, wireless broadband services will cover 85% of the world’s population, and data-enabled mobile (cellular) devices will outnumber personal computers and tablets. This talk, taken from a book in preparation, details the growing importance of ‘mobile-centric internet use’ in the developing world, raising questions and challenges for design. A breathlessly optimistic narrative has proclaimed the mobile phone the device which will finally close the ‘digital divide’, but the digital world does not run exclusively on mobile handsets. To guide policy and technical investments in socioeconomic development— I argue that it is better to reframe and view the mobile handset as one piece of a person’s digital repertoire, which also might include PCs, telecentres, TVs, tablets, and other devices. In the talk and in the book I revisit some of my previous studies in three domains of socioeconomic development: microenterprises and livelihoods, citizen journalism, and secondary education. Across each, I celebrate the transformational potential of the mobile phone. Yet, in each case, I use the “digital repertoires” lens to raise concerns, identifying how the capacity to generate, produce, and curate information may remain concentrated among those with better resources to secure digital tools, and the skills and incentives to use them. The person with $30 basic data-enabled phone and the person with a smartphone and a state-of-the-art $1000 desktop computer both can connect to the internet; however, it is not the same internet. Yet these persistent digital stratifications can be reduced if technologists, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers work to ensure that constrained digital repertoires enable not only coordination and consumption (which phones already do well), but also contribution (which they do less well). From natural user interfaces to language support to bandwidth pricing, there are concrete ways in which more empathetic design and policy can help a greater proportion of the world’s inhabitants be more productive with their ICTs. Jonathan Donner - Researcher, Technology for Emerging Markets, Microsoft Research Jonathan Donner is a researcher in the Technology for Emerging Markets Group (TEM) at Microsoft Research. For the last decade, Jonathan has published research on the remarkable growth in mobile telephony in the developing world, focusing on its implications for socioeconomic development and inclusion in the informational society, as well as its uses in everyday life. His projects at TEM include Microenterprise Development, Mobile Banking, Citizen Journalism, Mobile Health, and Youth and New Media. His research provides rare perspective on design and mobile HCI issues for those who want to build applications for the fastest growing group of internet users in the world: “mobile centric” internet users. Prior to Joining Microsoft Research, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and worked with Monitor Company and the OTF Group, consultancies in Boston, MA. He is the author, with Richard Ling, of Mobile Communication (Polity, 2009), and co-editor, with Patricia Mechael, of mHealth in Practice: Mobile Technology for Health Promotion in the Developing world (Bloomsbury Academic, 2012). His research also appears in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, The Information Society, Information Technologies and International Development, The Journal of International Development, and Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization. His Ph.D. is from Stanford University in Communication Research. Jonathan is based in South Africa and is a visiting academic at the University of Cape Town’s Centre in ICT4D. He is currently working on a new book, provisionally titled After Access: Mobile Internet in the Developing World. Further details on Jonathan’s research are at www.jonathandonner.com and via twitter as @jcdonner |
| Th, Oct 3 | Ed Cutrell | External Speaker | |
| Th, Oct 10 | Marshini Chetty Assistant Professor in iSchool and HCIL faculty member http://marshini.net |
Talk | |
| Th, Oct 17 | Kotaro Hara CS PhD Student http://kotarohara.com/ Uran Oh CS PhD Student |
ASSETS'13 Practice Talks | Talk 1: Improving Public Transit Accessibility for Blind Riders by Crowdsourcing Bus Stop Landmark Locations With Google Street View Talk 2: Follow That Sound: Using Sonification and Corrective Verbal Feedback to Teach Touchscreen Gestures |
| Th, Oct 24 | Makeability Lab Jon Froehlich's research group in the HCIL |
Discussion | Reflective discussion of experience exhibiting projects at Silver Spring Mini-Maker Faire. |
| Th, Oct 31 | Jen Goldbeck Associate Professor in the College of Information Studies, Affiliate Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department, Affiliate in the Center for the Advanced Study of Language, and HCIL Director http://www.cs.umd.edu/~golbeck/ |
Work In Progress Discussion | HCI and Cybersecurity |
| Th, Nov 7 | |||
| Th, Nov 14 | Erica Estrada Lecturer, Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Tammy Clegg, contact) |
External Speaker/Design Charette | Design Thinking |
| Th, Nov 21 | June Ahn Assistant Professor in the College of Information Studies and College of Education (joint appointment), and HCIL faculty member http://www.ahnjune.com/ |
Work In Progress Discussion | Video Games, Blended Learning, and Large-scale Education Reform |
| Th, Nov 28 | No Brown Bag. Happy Thanksgiving and Hanukkah. | ||
| Th, Dec 5 | |||
| Th, Dec 12 | |||
Spring 2014
| Date | Leader | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 30 | ||
| Feb 6 | ||
| Feb 13 | ||
| Feb 20 | ||
| Feb 27 | ||
| Feb 28 | ||
| March 6 | ||
| March 13 | ||
| March 20 | No Brown Bag. Spring Break. | |
| March 27 | ||
| April 3 | ||
| April 10 | ||
| April 17 | ||
| April 24 | ||
| May 1 | No Brown Bag. CHI 2014 from April 26 to May 1. | |
| May 8 |
Sponsors
We thank YAHOO for its sponsorship of the HCIL Brown Bag Lunches
Past Brown Bags
The following are the past Brown Bag schedules.
Spring 2013
| Date | Leader | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 24 | ||
| Jan 31 | John Gomez | |
| Feb 7 | Ben Bederson | Tools for synchronous crowdsourcing |
| Feb 14 | ||
| Feb 21 | ||
| Feb 28 | Lisa Anthony (Host: Leah Findlater) | Gestural Interaction for Children |
| March 7 | Awalin Sopan | Wrong Patient Selection Problem |
| March 14 | Michael Smith-Welch? (Host Jon Froehlich) | Kids, Programming, and Makerspaces |
| March 21 | Spring Break (No BBL) | |
| March 28 | ||
| April 4 | Ben Bederson, Jon Froehlich, Leah Findlater | HCIL Discussion: Activities, BBL, email lists, etc. |
| April 11 | Urah Oh, Anne Bowser | CHI Practice Talks: (1) Urah Oh (full paper) and (2) Anne Bowser (full paper) |
| April 18 | Megan Monroe, Kotaro Hara | CHI Practice Talks: (1) Megan Monroe (full paper) and (2) Kotaro Hara (full paper) |
| April 25 | ||
| May 2 | CHI 2013 (No BBL) | |
| May 9 |