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Bentley University

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UX Certificate Offerings

Bentley University UX Certificate

Spring 2010 Schedule

IN960C.001 User Experience Boot Camp Bill Gribbons; Bill Hartman; Meena Kothandaraman, Greg Almquist March 8 to 12, 2010

IN922C.001 Usability Testing James McElroy March 18 and 19, 2010

IN919C.001 Information Architecture Greg Almquist March 25 and 26, 2010 Web Offering

IN924C.001 New Insights through Technology and Social Media Colin Hynes April 8 and 9, 2010

IN928C.001 Visualizing Information Bill Gribbons May 13 and 14, 2010 Web Offering

IN935C.001 Designing the User Experience Bill Hartman June 3 and 4, 2010

IN939C.001 User Interface Design for Mobile Devices Kay Corry Aubrey June 10 and 11, 2010

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April Meeting: Note Location

Candy Sidner

The Recognition of Engagement in Human-Robot Dialogs

Candy Sidner
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 6:30 PM
Constant Contact
1601 Trapelo Road
Waltham, MA 02451-7357

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Abstract:

This talk will discuss research we have been conducting on the recognition of engagement and a re-usable module for engagement recognition in human-robot dialogs. I will discuss observations from studying human-human dialogues in which people undertake tasks that not only require them to discuss and collaborate, but also to make use of deictic gestures and mutual facial gaze. I will discuss our results on evaluation of this data and the notion of "connection events" in dialogue. I will then describe a re-usable module for recognition of these events by a robot. I will demonstrate results of our efforts in the "pointing game." This work is joint with Prof. Chuck Rich, and students Aaron Holroyd and Brett Ponsler at WPI.

Bio:

Candy Sidner has a long standing interest in human communication and collaboration, and their application to agents, robots, and interfaces, especially those using gesture, social behavior, speech, and natural language. She is currently a Research Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and a Division scientist at BAE Systems AIT.
She is a Fellow and past Councilor of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, and a senior member of the IEEE. She serves as an associate editor of the journal Artificial Intelligence, on several conference advisory boards and was President of the Association for Computational Linguistics (1989). She received her Ph.D. from MIT in Computer Science.


Evening Schedule:
6:30-7 Networking & Socializing over Tea, Coffee, Drinks, Food; Joining BostonCHI
7-8:30 Meeting
8:30-9 Dessert! ... And more Networking & Socializing



BostonCHI 2009-2010 Calendar
Tues 8 Sept 2009
Regular Meeting
Dr. Ryan Baker, WPI
Tues 13 Oct 2009 Regular Meeting
Lisa Gualtieri
Social Media Strategies
Lisa's Powerpoint Slides
Tues 10 Nov 2009 Regular Meeting
Ben Shneiderman
Understanding Social Media, Accelerating Social Participation

Ben's Powerpoint Slides
Tues 8 Dec 2009 Regular Meeting
Steve Krug
Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems
Tues 12 Jan 2010 Regular Meeting
Michael Sullivan
The Psychology of Technology - One Teacher’s Perspective?

Location: Sun Microsystems
Tues 9 Feb 2010 Regular Meeting
Dr. Boris Goldowsky & Lisa Spitz
Disability Access

Location: Microsoft New England Research and Development Center,
Tues 9 Mar 2010 Regular Meeting
Jack Beaton
Indian Culture and Mobile Usability Research

Location: Google, 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge MA 
Tues 13 April 2010 Regular Meeting
Candy Sidner
The Recognition of Engagement in Human-Robot Dialogs

Location: Constant Contact, 1601 Trapelo Road, Waltham, MA 02451-7357
Wed 12 May 2010 Regular Meeting
Dr. Martin Wattenberg and Dr. Fernanda Viegas
Location: Harvard University
Tues 8 June 2010 Regular Meeting
TBA
No Meetings in July or August


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BostonCHI meets ten times a year on the second Tuesday of the month except in July and August.


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