The Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program has organized between April and June a series of webinars entitled “User Experience Design Talks @CMU Portugal”. This initiative is conducted under the Advanced Training Programs in User Experience Design of the CMU Portugal Program, which is planned to start in 2021.
The third and last talk of this series of Webinars will take place on June 1st, 3 pm (Lisbon)/ 10 am (Pittsburgh) by Gierad Laput, Research and Engineering Manager at Apple.
Registration is free but mandatory: online form. All participants will receive the login credentials the day before the event.
As computing proliferates into everyday life, systems that understand people’s context of use are of paramount importance. Regardless of whether the platform is a mobile device, a wearable, or embedded in the environment, context offers an implicit dimension that will become highly important if we are to power more human-centric experiences. In this talk, I discuss the construction and evaluation of sensing technologies that can be practically deployed and yet still greatly enhance contextual awareness, primarily drawing upon machine learning to unlock a wide range of applications. I’ll discuss some of my team’s recent work at Apple, and I conclude with a vision of how rich contextual awareness can enable more powerful experiences across broader domains.
Bio
Dr. Gierad Laput is a Research and Engineering Manager at Apple, where he leads the Sensing Technologies Group under Machine Learning and AI. Their group mission is to explore and build technologies that make a profound impact on millions of people through research and development in sensing and AI. Applications of their work include health technologies, context-driven systems, and natural + assistive interactions. Gierad completed his Ph.D. and M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Michigan. He is also an Affiliate Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science.
- Session 1: John Zimmerman (CMU HCI Institute) “Designing Systems that Blend Human and Machine Intelligence”
- Session 2: Lining Yao (CMU HCI Institute and Morphing Matter Lab), “Making Active Materials Green: Morphing Matter for Sustainability”
