[SCS]: CSI Talk - Innovation, Insights, Impact: Human-Centered Computing in the Wild

Important this is an event organized by the School of Computer Science. It is not affiliated with the ACM Student Chapter!

Drawing from disciplines like computer science,  design, and psychology, human-computer interaction (HCI) experts are uniquely positioned to  help drive product discovery and innovation.  From eliciting user needs through user research,  connecting insights with tech trends to creating  prototypes that communicate ideas vividly to  stakeholders, there are many opportunities –  but also challenges– for HCI experts to have  impact. In this talk, I will share my journey across  academia, big tech corporations, and small startups and my lessons learned from working on  emerging technologies such as AR/VR and Conversational Voice Assistants in industry.

About:

arah Mennicken is the founder of DREI Solutions, a UX consulting agency that helps startups  navigate emerging technologies through user research, design, and prototyping. Prior to this, she  was a senior research scientist at Spotify, Microsoft Research, and innovative startups, where  she used her background in computer science  and human-computer interaction to drive product discovery in the space of voice assistants,  augmented and virtual reality, and interactive  machine learning. During her PhD at the University of Zurich she focused on the intelligibility  of smart homes and the perceptions of automated technologies in the domestic context.