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This week from Investigation & Connection: Ethics and Policy Issues in Computing, Emerging Trends in HCI with Ken Holstein, and Authenticity in Leadership with Auldyn Matthews!
👋 Announcements — Course Registration Prep and Flavors of HCI!
📚 Course Registration Prep
Interested in registering for HCI classes in the spring? Come to UXA’s Course Registration Prep, where you can talk with UXA members who have taken different HCI core courses and electives! Learn firsthand about the type of work, time commitment, and past projects for most courses offered in HCI next spring. RSVP here for the event, and we will see you today 5-6PM at South Craig 407! 🤓
🍽 Flavors of HCI - UXA Lecture Series
We have a question for you: What is HCI? Well, we don’t have a good answer (yet) either. However, one lesson we've learned from the wise community is that HCI comes with a diverse set of “flavors” (beyond UI + UX). 🤯
We have invited Ph.D. students with secret recipes of HCI and curated a ‘tasting menu’ for you. Join us and get a taste of popular “flavors” of HCI, including Human-AI Interaction, Social Studies in HCI, Technical Studies and Accessibility in HCI, and Critical/Cultural Approaches in HCI. 👀
These speaker events will take place over 11/12 and 11/13. RSVP here to reserve your spot! We will also be updating our website soon for further details. See you next weekend!
🐒 Campus Compass — Ethics and Policy Issues in Computing
🤖 19211 Ethics and Policy Issues in Computing
Should autonomous robots make life and death decisions on their own? Should we allow them to select a target and launch weapons? To diagnose injuries and perform surgery when human doctors are not around? Who should be permitted to observe you, find out who your friends are, what you do and say with them, what you buy, and where you go? As computing technology becomes ever more pervasive and sophisticated, we are presented with an escalating barrage of decisions about who, how, when, and for what purposes technology should be used. Ethics and Policy Issues in Computing dives into these questions and takes a look at what future technology has in our lives.
🤔 What is Ethics and Policy Issues in Computing?
This course will provide an intellectual framework for discussing these pressing issues of our time, as we shape the technologies that in turn shape us. We will seek insight through reading, discussion, guest lectures, and debates.
🧐 What do you do in Ethics and Policy Issues in Computing?
Students will undertake an analysis of a relevant issue of their choice, developing their own position, and acquiring the research skills needed to lend depth to their thinking. The course will enhance students’ ability to think clearly about contentious technology choices, formulate smart positions, and support their views with winning arguments.
😎 Professor Point - Emerging Trends in HCI with Ken Holstein
What roles should AI have in our workplaces? What roles should it not have? How can we better support human-AI collaborations beyond designing technologies? Join us in our talk with Professor Ken Holstein as we explore emerging themes in the HCI community that look beyond research and design and into the realm of policy. 🤓
“When I talk about bringing out the best of human ability, one of the major concerns I have with AI deployments in all of these settings that we study is seeing more failure modes than success modes in practice today, and I would like to see a future where the opposite is true.”
— Ken Holstein
🤩 Field Trip — Authenticity in Leadership with Auldyn Matthews
What is UX Design Leadership like? Who and what makes a good design leader? Check out our conversation with Auldyn Matthews, MHCI ‘13, where we discuss the nuances of design leadership, personal growth into leadership positions, and what it means to be a woman in design leadership. 🫡
“Stop trying to be Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs did his thing, go do your thing. Who are you, what do you value about life, and what are those skills you want to use to make sure those values come into fruition in this world?”
— Auldyn Matthews
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