Josiah Hester (Associate Professor of Interactive Computing and Computer Science at Georgia Tech) will discuss the alternative of harvesting energy from the surrounding environment (instead of relying on energy stored in a battery) and how this new paradigm of sustainable computational things has required a rethinking of hardware, software design, and tool creation.
Richmond Wong (Assistant Professor, Digital Media at Georgia Tech) reports on projects that investigate different modes of engaging ethical concerns in design, discusses creating change at group or institutional levels with mixed success, and points to a broader set of modes of engagement that can be used to consider values and ethical issues during technology design research and practice.
In this seminar, Augusto Opdenbosch will share the way the virtual proving ground (VPG) is being used to expedite the development of several autonomy projects.
Dr. Diansheng Guo (Chief Scientist and Technology Committee Chair at Tencent Map, Tencent) presents an overview of challenges for mobility analytics and introduces a set of methodologies for mobility data mining, visualization, prediction, optimization, and their real-world applications.
Dhanaraj Thakur (Research Director at the Center for Democracy & Technology) discusses ways to address factors that guide research in advocacy organizations by drawing on practical experiences and referring to research in three broad areas - content moderation, surveillance, and disinformation. He will also demonstrate how interdisciplinary teams can create spaces for researchers and policy-makers to learn from each other.
Ashok Goel (School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology) presents how AI-ALOE will develop new AI technologies in online education and improve its quality for adult learners in STEM disciplines. Dr. Goel will describe AI-ALOE’s vision, goals and plans, using research laboratory examples for illustration.
Nithya Sambasivan (Sociotechnical Researcher formerly, Research Scientist PAIR, Google Research) presents results from a multi-year inquiry and will pay particular attention to developer practices in AI systems intended for low-resource communities.
Golnaz Arastoopour Irgens (Assistant Professor, Clemson University) presents a collaboration with researchers and children to develop a critical machine learning after-school education program. Reflecting on the findings, Dr. Irgens argues for the benefits of participatory design methods in designing critical machine learning educational environments, as well as the unresolved tensions that emerge.
Jason Wiese (Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at The University of Utah) explores methodological limitations encountered in his research group’s recent projects, including work with individuals who have had a spinal cord injury and a project examining air quality data with parents of asthmatic children.
Carl DiSalvo (Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology) presents his new book
Design as Democratic Inquiry,
a series of projects grounded in collaborations with communities and institutions. DiSalvo explores the potentials and limitations of design to participate in democracy and argues for design as a way to care for our collective futures.
In this talk, Lauren Margulieux (Assistant Professor of Learning Sciences at Georgia State University) discusses Spatial Encoding Strategy theory and Multiple Conceptions theory. These theories are developed based on a synthesis of work across multiple education-related fields to explain phenomena frequently seen in STEM education.
