HCC seminar Spring 2000

Human-Centered Computing Seminar

Fall 2000, 110 South Hall, Tuesday 4-5:30pm.

CS 298-31,
SIMS 290-2

Instructors: John Canny, 529 Soda Hall, x2-9955, jfc@cs.berkeley.edu, office hours Tu 1:30-2:30pm, Th 2-3pm
Nancy Van House, 307A South Hall, x2-0855, vanhouse@sims.berkeley.edu.

The seminar will continue to address topics at the boundary between computer science and disciplines studying human behavior. Topics include education and development, collaboration, knowledge creation, design and cognition, and computers as tools and mediators of those activities.

Archive: Previous semester's speakers and abstracts.

HCC Readings: Here is a list of HCC-related books. Please feel free to suggest additions to it.

The seminar web page is http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jfc/hcc/seminar.html while the general HCC project page is http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jfc/hcc/.

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Schedule for Fall 2000

Date	Speaker	Title
8/29/00
9/5/00
9/12/00
9/19/00
9/26/00	Martti Mantyla Helsinki Institute of Technology	User Experience Research
10/3/00	Chris Dellarocas MIT Sloan School of Management	The Design of Reliable Trust Management Systems for Electronic Trading Communities
10/10/00	Dan Russell USER Lab, IBM Almaden Res.	Interfaces of the gestalt: Dealing with computing everywhere
10/17/00	John Lowe Ask Jeeves Inc.	Identifying Individuals and Groups in Complex Organizations.
10/24/00	Shumin Zhai IBM Almaden Research Ctr	Computer Input: innovation, theoretical modeling, and future exploration
10/31/00	Pamela Hinds Stanford University	Perspective-taking and information sharing among distributed workers: the effect of distance on shared mental models of work.
11/7/00	Victoria Bellotti and Ian Smith Xerox PARC	The Tale of the Curious Little Washing Rat In Which Raton Laveur Discovered that Personal Information Management is an Embedded Activity
11/14/00	Jed Harris and Austin Henderson	A Better Mythology for System Design
11/21/00	Thomas Landauer U. Colorado, Boulder	Modeling human verbal meaning with Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) of text corpora.
11/28/00	John Tang Sun Microsystems	Shared Drawing: From Observational Studies to Working Prototypes.
12/5/00	Maarten Sierhus NASA Ames	Modeling and Simulating Work Practice