[sudoroom] Fwd: [i-announce at ischool] Robotic Agents and The Future of Data, tomorrow, at the I School!

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> From: School of Information <events at ischool.berkeley.edu>
> Date: November 5, 2012, 11:11:43 AM PST
> To: i-announce at ischool.berkeley.edu
> Subject: [i-announce at ischool] Robotic Agents and The Future of Data, tomorrow, at the I School!
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> Don't miss the following two lectures at the School of Information tomorrow!
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> Designing for In-the-Moment Interactions with Robotic Agents
> With Leila Takayama, Willow Garage
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> Tuesday, November 6, 2012, 4:10 pm - 5:00 pm
> 202 South Hall
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> This presentation is part of the Design Futures Lecture Series presented by the UC Berkeley Center for New Media and the School of Information.
> We encounter and interact with robotic agents every day when withdrawing cash from ATMs, driving cars with anti-lock brakes, and tuning our thermostats. In the moment of those interactions, we behave in ways that do not necessarily align with our belief that these are just plain machines. Through a combination of controlled experiments and field studies, this talk will examine how people actually interact with (and through) robotic agents. From these studies, we will draw out directions for explorations into the largely uncharted design spaces of human-robot interactions and robotic telepresence.
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> Leila Takayama is a research scientist and manager at Willow Garage in the area of human-robot          interaction. With a background in cognitive science, psychology, and human-computer interaction, her current focus is understanding human encounters with robots in terms of how they perceive, understand, feel about, and interact with robots. Among other things, she is working on teaching the robots some manners. This year, she was named one of the Tech Review's 35 innovators under 35 as well as one of Fast Company's 100 most creative people in business.
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> Her research interests include embodied cognition and the social and cognitive psychology of interacting with non-human agents. She studies how people come to feel that their tools are invisible-in-use (e.g., tele-operated robots) and potentially change their perspectives on the world. She also studies how people engage with non-human agents (e.g., autonomous robots). Though her primary method of inquiry is controlled experiments, she is constantly expanding her methodological toolkit by learning and using field studies, surveys, interviews, archival studies, etc., depending upon what is most effective for addressing the research questions at hand.
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> Dr. Takayama completed her Ph.D. in the Communication between Humans and Interactive Media (CHIMe) lab at Stanford University in 2008, advised by Professor Clifford Nass. She also holds a Ph.D. minor in psychology from Stanford, an M.A. in communication from Stanford, and B.A.s in psychology and cognitive science from UC Berkeley (2003). During her graduate studies, she was a research assistant in the User Interface Research (UIR) group at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Her thesis, Throwing Voices: Investigating the Psychological Effects of the Spatial Location of Projected Voices, won the Nathan Maccoby outstanding dissertation award. Before joining Willow Garage, she was a research scientist at Nokia Research Center.
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> More information: http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/dfls/20121106
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> The Future of Data: We Depend on You!
> With Mike Olson, CEO, Cloudera
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> Tuesday, November 6, 2012, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
> 210 South Hall
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> Sponsored by SiSense
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> In this informal and interactive session, Mike Olson will talk with Bruno Aziza, vice president of marketing at SiSense, about the changes in the industry over the last quarter century, including the advent of open source software, business models that have evolved to commercialize it, the changing ecosystem for starting and running a company in the Silicon Valley, the confluence of cloud computing, mobile technology and big data platforms, and the likely future of information management for the industry and for society at large. Audience members should bring questions!
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> Advance registration is required. Sign up online.
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> Mike Olson has worked in the Bay Area technology industry and in academia since 1986. Over that time, he has contributed to open source software projects (the 4BSD Unix distribution from Berkeley Computer Systems Research Group, Postgres and Berkeley DB); built and sold commercial products for vendors including Illustra, Informix, Sleepycat, and Oracle; and worked as an early-stage employee at small startup companies and       at large, established vendors. Mike is currently the CEO of Cloudera, the company he co-founded in 2008 with engineers from Google, Facebook, and Yahoo!
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> More information: http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20121106mikeolsoncloudera
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> More upcoming events at the I School:
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> November 28, 2012 - "Data Mining Meets HCI: Making Sense of Large Graphs", Dean's Lecture with Polo Chau
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> December 4, 2012 - "Lo-Fi & Hi-Touch in the Age of Hi-Tech", Design Futures Lecture with Scott Doorley, Creative Director, Stanford d.school
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