[Colloquium] Distinguished HCI lecture starting now

[Sandra Wallace]

How to watch
Livestream on Youtube (no login required, no zoom required): https://youtu.be/3fmN2PoXbOQ <https://youtu.be/3fmN2PoXbOQ>
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> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: Pedro Lopes <pedrolopes at cs.uchicago.edu>
> Subject: [prof] [fac] Distinguished HCI lecture: Chris Harrison (CMU), Monday, October 5th, 3PM
> Date: September 30, 2020 at 8:00:00 AM CDT
> To: undisclosed-recipients:;
> 
> It is my great pleasure to announce the start of our Distinguished Lecture Series in Human-Computer Interaction with a talk from Chris Harrison <https://www.chrisharrison.net/>. Chris is an Associate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University, directing the Future Interfaces Group <http://www.figlab.com/>. You can see a brief video of his group's exciting work here <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_oPtEjiVuA>!
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> 
> When
> Monday, October 5, 2020 3:00pm CDT (public livestream <https://youtu.be/3fmN2PoXbOQ> or zoom for registered attendees <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chris-harrison-cmu-distinguished-hci-lecture-at-uchicago-tickets-123236759465>)
> 
> How to watch
> Livestream on Youtube (no login required, no zoom required): https://youtu.be/3fmN2PoXbOQ <https://youtu.be/3fmN2PoXbOQ>
> Zoom: register here <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chris-harrison-cmu-distinguished-hci-lecture-at-uchicago-tickets-123236759465> and we will email you all the details. 
> Title: Truly Responsive Environments
> 
> Abstract. Truly smart and responsive environments rely on the ability to detect physical events and social context, such as appliance use and human activities. Currently, to sense these types of events, one must either upgrade to “smart” appliances or attach aftermarket sensors to existing objects and infrastructure. These approaches are expensive, intrusive and inflexible. Furthermore, even “smart” appliances are often very dumb – a smart speaker sitting on a kitchen countertop cannot figure out if it is in a kitchen, let alone know what a user is doing in a kitchen. In my talk, I will review my lab’s efforts over the past few years to bring the promise of smart environments much closer to reality.
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> Bio. Chris Harrison is the A. Nico Habermann Chair and an Associate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University, directing the Future Interfaces Group (www.figlab.com <http://www.figlab.com/>). He broadly investigates novel sensing and interactive technologies, especially those that empower people to interact with small computing devices in big ways. Dr. Harrison has authored more than 90 peer-reviewed papers and his work appears in more than 40 books. For his innovations, Harrison has been named as a Top 30 Scientist by Forbes, a Top 35 Innovator by MIT Technology Review, and a World Economic Forum Young Scientist. Harrison has been named a fellow by the Packard Foundation, Sloan Foundation, Google, Qualcomm and Microsoft Research. He is also co-founder and CTO of Qeexo, a CMU spinoff working at the intersection of interactive technologies and artificial intelligence. More about Chris here <http://www.chrisharrison.net/>.
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> Once more, it is my greatest pleasure to have Chris Harrison speaking at our Department for this speaker series, and hoping that all of you will join us for attending and engaging with Chris' work. 
> 
> Last, I warmly invite you to stay tuned for the rest of our Distinguished Lecture Series in Human-Computer Interaction during the Fall; Chris is just one of the many luminaries that we invited to present to you. 
> 
> best,
> pedro
> p.s.: A very warm thank-you to everyone who helped in putting this series together in these difficult times (Mike Franklin, Marshini Chetty, Blase Ur, Nita Yack, Sandra Wallace, Rob Mitchum, Tom Dobes, Jas Brooks, and many others, too many to name -- thank you!). 
> -- 
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