News: Mason HCI Community Building 

The Center for Advancing Human-Machine Partnerships (CAHMP) and the Institute of Digital InnovAtion (IDIA) co-organized on June 21-22 a two-day Human Computer Interaction (HCI workshop. The workshop signaled the beginning of a new stage in interdisciplinary research and community building around HCI at Mason.

This hybrid event brought together fifteen Mason’s Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) researchers across the School of Computing, the School of Art, and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Workshop participants built community, identified gaps and opportunities in the national HCI research landscape, outlined core research expertise and capabilities in the Mason HCI community in direct alignment with national priorities, and formulated synergistic research development activities.

The second day featured a visit by Dr. Andruid Kerne, current NSF Program Director in the Directorate for Computer Information Science and Engineering, and allowed the workshop participants to engage directly with an NSF Program Director on relevant HCI-related opportunities across the Foundation.

This workshop marks the beginning of a new day for HCI research at Mason, as well as the beginning of close collaborations between IDIA and the Transdisciplinary Centers.

Workshop Participants:

Sanmay Das, Professor of Computer Science, SoC; Co-director, CAHMP

Craig Yu, Associate Professor of Computer Science, SoC

Thomas LaToza, Associate Professor of Computer Science, SoC

Brittany Johnson, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, SoC

Myeong Lee, Assistant Professor of Information Science, SoC

Kevin Moran, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, SoC

Gerald Matthews, Professor of Psychology, CHSS

Shanshan Cui, Associate Professor, School of Art

Ziyu Yao, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, SoC

Zhisheng Yan, Assistant Professor of IST, SoC

Yotam Gingold, Associate Professor of Computer Science, SoC

Vivian Motti, Assistant Professor of IST, SoC

Vania Neris, Associate Professor – Department of Computing – Federal University of São Carlos – Brazil; Visiting Scholar – Department of Information Sciences and Technology – George Mason University

Peng Warweg, Assistant Director, CAHMP

Amarda Shehu, Professor of Computer Science, SoC; AVP of Research, IDIA