Human-Centered Computing Long-range plan

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Human-Centered ComputingLong-range plan

• John Canny
• UC Berkeley

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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
• 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
• 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.