Present: Jim Oliver, Derrick Parkhurst, Julie Dickerson, ChiuShui Chan, Steve Herrnstadt, Matt Heying, Pam Shill, Tony Townsend sitting in for Brian Mennecke, who could not attend.
Priorities and Action Items from HCI Retreat: The committee began discussing the action items that were suggested by those attending the HCI Retreat last May. The items discussed included the following:
Under the Collaboration Priority:
A. Faculty Research Presentations: This has been implemented by faculty being asked to present at VRAC/HCI faculty/staff meetings beginning this summer and continuing this fall semester.
B. Speed Collaboration (5 minute presentations): The committee will ask Chad Harms to implement his idea of having faculty share their research topics in a format similar to “speed dating”.
C. 1 credit seminar mandatory for students to get to know faculty and their areas of research: Students are being invited to the VRAC/HCI faculty/staff meetings, so they are being given one opportunity to learn about faculty members’ research. Discussion about the seminar being mandatory was held. Matt will ask students for their input on a mandatory seminar. Suggestion was made to hold brown bag lunches for students with faculty presenting their research in that forum.
D. Faculty Participation in “tagging” Networking opportunities as contributors to salient bodies of knowledge, i.e. “social bookmarking”: Kevin Teske and Chris Harding presented this topic to VRAC/HCI faculty/staff meeting earlier this semester.
Under the Marketing Priority:
A. Website Review and Upgrade to include Faculty Accessibility: The web team is being created and work has begun on this.
B. National Media Event: A serious media outlet such as Science Friday or the Discover Channel was discussed. Chad Harms will be asked to look into this in conjunction with the HCI Forum or C6 Opening.
C. PKG Core Strengths: The Newsletter team will be asked to see if they have the time to work on someway to package our program’s uniqueness.
The committee did not get through the list of action items, so this discussion will continue at the next meeting.
The committee went into a closed session.
Next meeting will be on Wednesday, November 8 at 9 am in the VRAC Conference Room.