Seminar Description

Brain-computer interfaces, smart cities, computing for all, human computation, augmented reality, personalized health care, environmental sustainability. What do all of these topics have in common? They are just a small taste of emerging hot topics in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).

This 1-credit weekly reading seminar will cover recent papers that represent new directions and opportunities in HCI. By nature HCI has been interdisciplinary, incorporating fields such as Computer Science, Psychology, and Design. The Future of HCI will be even more so. We will reflect this trend by targeting papers that not only integrate multiple sub-discipines of CS (e.g., computer vision, machine learning) but also target problem spaces traditionally found in other fields (e.g., medicine, urban planning, environmental sustainability).

We plan on reading approximately one paper per week. Each paper will be assigned one leader who will be partly responsible for leading the discussion of the paper. Participants are requested to post a short comment about the paper before the UMD weekly meeting, so that their comments can be read and reflected on by others. 

Logistics

The seminar is being offered for-credit at the University of Maryland, but held openly. External participants are invited to participate by reading the papers and participating in online discussions through Google Plus. Each reading will have a public G+ post associated with it. Each reading's post will be linked to from this study group. Participants should submit their comments on G+ as a reply to the original post. Requested deadline for submitting reading comments is Tuesday at 10am. 

Requisite disclaimer: holding the course openly is meant to be an enrichment experience for all involved. UMD is not offering any formal credit for this participation to external participants.