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Past Talks and Colloquia
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Jun 11 11 2:00pm - 5:00pm
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Jun 10 11 2:00pm - 4:00pm
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Speaker:
Noah Vawter Participant(s)/Committee:
Leah Buechley Joseph Paradiso This dissertation describes the research, development and reasoning behind a family of musical instruments called Exertion Instruments. They use streamlined, inline electrical generators and efficient acoustic design to completely eliminate the need for batteries and minimize the need for electrical power. As such, they combine the convenience of acoustic instruments with the flexibility of electronic instruments. Through new generator designs, nuances of player movement become as important to expression as the overall intensity of their playing. |
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Jun 09 11 10:00am - 12:00pm
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Speaker:
Chia-Hsun (Jackie) Lee Host/Chair:
Rosalind W. Picard
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Ted Selker Matthew Goodwin Misunderstanding Detection demonstrates strategic interpretations from a lab-based study, a school-based study, and a home-based study in order to situate stronger interpersonal understandings of people diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Misunderstanding is typically the result of a biased hypothesis with missing information. For people equipped with hyper- or hypo-sensory capacity (e.g., many people diagnosed with ASD), over-aroused situations or "meltdowns" are often accompanied by misinterpretation of potential stressors in their everyday lives. |
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May 23 11 4:00pm - 6:00pm
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Speaker:
Larry Birnbaum Systems that present people with information inescapably make editorial judgments in determining what information to show and how to show it. However, the editorial values used to make these determinations are generally invisible to users and in many cases even to the engineers who design them. This talk describes some of the problems that this creates, based mainly on an assessment of mistakes, and presents some technologies for providing explicit and visible editorial control in news and media information systems. |
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May 17 11 3:30pm - 5:30pm
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Speaker:
Ming-Zher Poh Participant(s)/Committee:
John V. Guttag, PhD Richard J. Cohen, MD, PhD Tobias Loddenkemper, MD Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that predisposes individuals to have recurrent, unprovoked seizures. The apprehension about injury, or even death, resulting from a seizure often overshadows the lives of those unable to achieve complete seizure control. Moreover, people with uncontrolled seizures are at greatest risk for sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). |
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May 07 11 7:00pm - May 08 11 10:00pm
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May 02 11 2:00pm - 3:30pm
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Speaker:
Michael Naimark Host/Chair:
Hiroshi Ishii
Professor Naimark's presentation is available online. |
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Apr 26 11 9:00am - 11:00am
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The digital revolution has fundamentally changed our lives by giving us new ways to express ourselves through digital media. For example, accessible multimedia content-creation tools allow people to instantiate their ideas and share them easily. However, most of these outcomes only exist on-screen and online. Despite the growing accessibility of digital design and fabrication tools, the physical world and everyday objects surrounding us have been largely excluded from a parallel explosion of possibilities to express ourselves. |
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Apr 25 11 10:00am - 12:00pm
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Speaker:
Latanya Sweeney Over the last few years, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development has sought ways to learn patterns of service utilization across homeless programs, while guaranteeing the privacy of those clients who visit domestic violence homeless shelters. This talk reports on the surprises of what didn’t work and why, and then introduces PrivaMix, a real-time, multi-party computation invented as a solution to this problem. A contribution is the use of a one-way function that has a commutative property. |
