Human-Centered Computing: Enhancing People's Lives Through Technology
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Human-Centered ComputingLong-range plan John Canny UC Berkeley
Our reason for being • To make computing more useful to people. • To use computing to learn more about people. • Computing is permeating our daily lives, and becoming our environment.
The center model • We want to have social sciences participate as primary partners. • Interdisciplinary collaboration is hard, and happens sporadically by itself. • Collaboration happens much more often when facilitated by: • Shared space or proximity • Regular face-to-face contact • Shared funding
What we want to deliver • The center provides those resources, and seeks to generate: • Focussed research projects involving collaboration between 2-7 faculty. • Industry partnerships in those projects. • Opportunities for graduate students: contact with or co-advising by faculty across departments. Contacts with industry.
Three projects in the pipeline • Being There: (2 CS, 2 EE, 2 psychologists). • Tacit Knowledge Mining (2 CS, 2 sociologists, 1 anthropologist) • Knowledgescapes (2 CS, 2 sociologists, 1 SIMS)
Lessons from the GVU • Create a core group of faculty (and industry people) with specific responsibilities. • Hire some staff people to manage day-to-day functioning of the center. • Create partnerships with industry. • Go after government support. • Create shared labs.
The Berkeley Brand • Balance and strength in SS and CS. • Of the 30 main graduate research disciplines, Berkeley has departments in the top 10 in 28. • Rigor in both theoretical and experimental work.
Next semester • The HCC seminar continues: speakers from CS, social sciences, academic and industry. • New graduate course on HCC: Covers • Presence and non-verbal communication • Social network theory and applications • Tacit knowledge • Activity theory, social learning • Web site is www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jfc/hcc • Reading group: Mark and Eric
How you can help • UCB folks: Be involved in the seminar, retreats etc. • Direct support at the center level. • Partnerships: Focussed projects, fixed-duration, IP contracts need to be figured out. • Steering committee or IAB.