Transcript Powerpoint - Computer Science Division

Human-Centered Computing
Long-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.
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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:
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Shared space or proximity
Regular face-to-face contact
Shared funding
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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Next semester
• The HCC seminar continues: speakers from CS,
social sciences, academic and industry.
• New graduate course on HCC: Covers
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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
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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.
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