<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class=""><font size="4" class=""><b class="">University of Chicago<br class="">Department of Computer Science<br class=""></b></font></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class=""><font size="4" class=""><b class="">Distinguished Lecture Series in Human-Computer Interaction</b></font></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"></div></div></div></div><img apple-inline="yes" id="CFADCFFB-00A0-4D4B-8A87-F457CFFA1CAF" src="cid:D7E2EEF7-7C25-4E7C-A416-FD2C6451330D@hsd1.il.comcast.net" class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class=""><b class=""><font size="4" class="">Chris Harrison</font></b></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><i class="">Carnegie Mellon University</i></span></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b class=""><font class="" size="4"><br class=""></font></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class=""><b class=""><font class="" size="4">Monday, October 5, 2020 at 3:00 pm </font></b></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class=""><b class=""><font class="" size="4"><br class=""></font></b></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class=""><b class=""><font class=""><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 15px;" class="">Join via Zoom:</span></font></b></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><font class=""><a href="https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/j/95875760206?pwd=NUtYaDZZYWNyd0xKZzRJQUhVdEpXdz09" class="">https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/j/95875760206?pwd=NUtYaDZZYWNyd0xKZzRJQUhVdEpXdz09</a></font></span></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></span></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><font class="">Password: cdac1<br class=""></font></span><br class=""><br class=""><b class="" style="font-size: large;"><font class=""><br class=""></font></b></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><span class=""><b class=""><font class="">Title:</font></b> </span><span class="">Truly Responsive Environments</span></span></div></div></div></div><font class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></font><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><b class=""><font class="" style="font-size: 15px;">Abstract:</font></b></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><div class=""><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">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. <br class=""><br class=""></span></div><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><b class=""><font class="" style="font-size: 15px;">Bio:</font></b></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">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 (<a href="http://www.figlab.com" class="">www.figlab.com</a>). 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. His website is <a href="http://www.chrisharison.net/" class="">www.chrisharison.net</a></span></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><b class="">Host:</b> Pedro Lopes</span></div></div></div></body></html>