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Faculty Candidate Talk:
"Exerting Influence and Enacting Change: Human Agency in Human-Computer Interactions" |
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Noon-1:00 PM
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Mon, January 26, 2009 |
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Ehrlicher Room, 411 West Hall (in person)
1202 SI North (videocast) |
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Speakers: |
Amy Voida |
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Description: |
Amy Voida completed her doctorate in human-centered computing in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008. She is a postdoctoral fellow in the Computer Science Department at the University of Calgary. Voida pursues research in the areas of human-computer interaction, computer-supported cooperative work, computer-mediated communication, and ubiquitous computing. She studies the lived experience and everyday use of computational technologies and draws from multiple disciplinary inspirations in her research, including computer science, the social sciences, philosophy, and the humanities.
In this talk, she highlights three examples of research that illustrate different aspects of human agency in interactions among people and computational technologies. First, she presents a study of the multigenerational and collaborative use of console games and demonstrates how people actively construct their own meanings of and practices around technology. Second, she describes a technological hermeneutic -- a theory to characterize the processes surrounding human agency in technology use. Finally, she presents a survey of technology use in nonprofit fundraising and highlights a number of ways that technologies can more explicitly foster human agency.
All are invited to attend. To promote in-depth intellectual engagement during the seminar, all are encouraged to read Voida's paper in advance . A lunch will be served, beginning at 11:45 a.m.
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Sponsor: |
School of Information |
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Contact: |
JoAnne Kerr |
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E-Mail: |
jmkerr@umich.edu |
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