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<div class="gmail-l-mar-vert-6 gmail-structured-content-rich-text gmail-l-align-left gmail-structured-content__module gmail-l-sm-mar-vert-4 gmail-text-body-medium">Monday, October 5, 2020 3:00pm CDT (<a href="https://youtu.be/3fmN2PoXbOQ" class="">public livestream</a> or zoom for <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chris-harrison-cmu-distinguished-hci-lecture-at-uchicago-tickets-123236759465" class="">registered attendees</a>)<div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><b class="">How to watch<br class=""></b></div><div class=""><b class="">Livestream on Youtube</b> (no login required, no zoom required): <a href="https://youtu.be/3fmN2PoXbOQ" class="">https://youtu.be/3fmN2PoXbOQ</a></div><div class=""><b class="">Zoom: </b>register <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chris-harrison-cmu-distinguished-hci-lecture-at-uchicago-tickets-123236759465" class="">here</a> and we will email you all the details. <br class=""></div><p class=""><strong class=""></strong></p><p class=""><strong class="">Title: </strong><em class="">Truly Responsive Environments</em></p><p class=""><strong class="">Abstract. </strong>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. </p><p class=""><strong class="">Bio. </strong>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. More about Chris <a href="http://www.chrisharrison.net/" class="">here</a>.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class=""></div><div class="">Once more, it is my greatest pleasure to have Chris Harrison speaking at our Department for this speaker series,<b class=""> and hoping that all of you will join us for attending and engaging with Chris' work. </b><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Last, I warmly invite you to stay tuned for the rest of our <i class="">Distinguished Lecture Series in Human-Computer Interaction</i> during the Fall; Chris is just one of the many luminaries that we invited to present to you. <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""></div><div class="">best,</div><div class="">pedro</div><div class="">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!). <br class=""></div><div class="">-- <br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span class=""><span class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span class=""><span class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><span class=""><a href="http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~pedrolopes/" target="_blank" class=""><font color="#1155cc" class=""><font size="2" class=""><font face="arial" class="">people.cs.uchicago.edu/~pedrolopes/</font></font></font></a></span></span></span></span></span><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><span class=""></span></span><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span class=""><span class=""><span class=""><span class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">Assist. Prof. at <a href="https://www.uchicago.edu/" target="_blank" class="">University of Chicago</a></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><span class=""><span class=""><span class=""><span class=""><span class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><a href="http://lab.plopes.org/" class="">Human Computer Interaction Lab</a><br class=""></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><span class=""><span class=""><span class=""><span class=""><span class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">Computer Science<br class=""></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></span></span></span></span></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><span class=""></span></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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