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• Virtual Reality Applications Center
• The HCI program is well represented in the list of award finalists announced by the Technology Association of Iowa. Faculty members Debra Satterfield and Eve Wurtele, PhD candidate Sondra Ashmore, and MS student Bethany Juhnke are all finalists.
posted: November 03, 2011
• The HCI Graduate Program will host their annual HCI Recruiting Open House on Friday, February 24, 2012 from 10 am to 5 pm in Howe Hall. Please contact Pam Shill if you would like to attend.
posted: November 01, 2011
• Meta!Blast wins Honorable Mention in the 2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge sposored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
— Science: 02/03/2012
• Eve Syrkin Wurtele decided the best way to get the attention of the science-deprived, gamer generation is to take the information out of a textbook and put it in a medium that kids crave - video games. Eve and her team developed Meta!Blast.
— ISU News Service: 02/02/2012
• Claver Hategekimana, HCI PhD, Fall 2008, designs a solar kit to light African homes and brighten lives
— The Wenatchee World: 10/27/2011
• Iowa State alumna Daniela Faas has had an enthralling journey that began with a move from Germany to the US as a teen, beginning what she calls her own version of the “American Dream.”
— INNOVATEonline: 09/22/2011
HCI Forums
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ASME WinVR 2010 World Conference on Innovative Virtual Reality
International leaders gathered to discuss the use of virtual reality to solve industrial problems. WinVR partnered with the VIRMAN (Virtual Manufacturing) Workshop, and the ETC (Emerging Technologies Conference). |
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EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES CONFERENCE | 2009
Keynote Speaker: Gregory D. Abowd presented a talk entitled, "Make IT Matter: We Can Be Clever & Make a Difference." |
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EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES CONFERENCE | 2008
Keynote Speaker: Michael Schrage author of, Serious Play--How the World‘s Best Companies Simulate to Innovate, presented a talk entitled, "HCI: Help Create Ideas--Exploring Innovation Leadership." |
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DESIGNING INTERACTION 2007
(day one of the Emerging Technologies Conference ‘07) Keynote Speaker: Don Norman author of, The Design of Everyday Things, presented a talk entitled, "Cautious Cars & Cantakerous Kitchens." |
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DESIGNING INTERACTION 2006
Keynote Speaker: Ray Kurzweil author of The Singularity is Near presented a talk entitled, "When Humans Transcend Biology." |
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DESIGNING INTERACTION 2005
Keynote: Ben Shneiderman "Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs & the New Computing Technologies." |
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DESIGNING INTERACTION 2004
Keynote: Steven Feiner, . "Taking it to the Streets: How Virtual Reality Will Change Mobile Computing" |