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Theme Track
Working Across Global Boundaries:
Improving Education Opportunities and
Lives of East-African Women
Location: Hanover AB
Panelists: Erika Flint (IBM) and Deb
Raudins (IBM)
Women in Africa continue to suffer from
a lack of educational, technical, and
professional opportunities which limits the
potential of these women in every aspect
of their lives. In this session we review the
experiences and lessons learned by a team
charged with the mission of improving the
lives and opportunities of an East-African
community through an in-country experience
building technical and educational solutions
for a new world class university.
Student Track
Use your Facebook Addiction for Good:
How Facebook, Twitter, and other
Social Media Can Help you Find a Job,
Improve your Business, Collaborate
across Boundaries, and Make a
Difference
Location: Hanover CDE
Panelists: Jennifer Marsman (Microsoft),
Randi Zuckerberg (Facebook), and BJ
Wishinsky (Anita Borg Institute)
Are you a Facebook addict? Do you
document your life on Twitter? Social
media is a great way to keep in touch with
friends, but it can also help you in the
business world. Learn some tips & tricks to
find a job, improve your business, collaborate
better, and make a difference in the
world using social media.
Steering Committee Recommendation
The Latest and Greatest in Assistive
Technology
Location: Cairo/Hong Kong
Panelists: Brianna Havlik (HP), M.
Bernardine Dias (Carnegie Mellon
University), Frances West (IBM), Jenny
Lay-Flurrie (Microsoft), and Selena Chan
(Intel)
p r O G r a m d e Ta i L
FRIDAY | OCT 1
Although the computer science industry
is not known for helping others, there
are many computer scientists who are
using their skills to give back to society, for
example in the field of assistive technology,
helping those with disabilities. This panel
serves as a showcase for some of the
inventive technology being introduced in the
assistive technology arena. This panel will
demo some of the smart advancements in
assistive technology.
Technical Theme Track – HCI
Unlocking Human Potential: A Vision
for Human-Centered Computing
Location: Regency Ballroom V
Presenters: Elizabeth Mynatt (Georgia
Institute of Technology)
Human-Centered Computing (HCC)
investigates socio-technical systems
drawing from the fields of Human-Computer
Interaction (HCI), Social Computing, Industrial
Design, and Learning and Cognitive
Sciences. The heart of the matter is that
HCC recognizes the dance between people
and computing technologies. New technologies
present novel opportunities and people
respond through use, disuse, adoption,
assimilation and rejection. The overarching
activity of appropriation pushes back on
technology design to inform the next steps.
This dance can be beautifully fluid, full
of new energy, and it can be frustratingly
awkward. Throughout this field there are
tremendous opportunities to study and
invent, design and observe the role of
computing technologies in all walks of life.
In this talk, I present a brief history of
the intellectual agendas that have come
together to inform Human-Centered
Computing. Looking forward, I present
the agenda that informs our community
today, Unlocking Human Potential through
Technical Innovation. Drawing from the
seven themes that anchor the work in the
GVU Center at Georgia Tech, I will present
examples of how computing research can
enable Creativity, Wellness, Independence,
Emotion, Learning, Persuasion and Trust.
These challenges push past questions of
interaction design and look at the fundamental
experience of computing and its role
in everyday life.
Award Winner Track
Anita Borg Technical Leadership
Award Winner – Underwritten by Cisco
Location: Montreal/ Vancouver
Laura Haas (IBM Almaden Research
Center)
Integrating People and Information:
My Career in Industrial Research
We depend on information, in both
our work and personal lives. But the
information we need is scattered across
many sources, and must be brought together
into a usable form – a simple-sounding but
challenging task that has been the focus of
my career. I will describe this work and my
path to IBM Fellow, with particular attention
to the role that collaboration with a broad
variety of colleagues has played.
K-12
Twitter Integrated Science Pilot
Program: Positively Impacting the
Attitudes of Adolescent Girls Towards
Technology in Middle/High School
Location: Regency Ballroom VI
Panelists: Arshia Khan (College of St.
Scholastica), Chery Takkunen (College
of St. Scholastica), and Cynthia Welsh
(Cloquet Public Schools)
Collaboration between computer science,
teacher education faculty and a middle/
high school science teacher resulted in a
Twitter integrated science pilot program that
attempted to capitalize on the career-decision
making window of opportunity of 10 to
15 year old girls. The challenges, successes
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