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UCB Human-Centered Computing Mini-Retreat

Bechtel Engineering Center, UC Berkeley, Thursday Feb 24, 2000

This is the second retreat held by the Human-Centered Computing consortium, an interdisciplinary group studying information systems in social contexts. The first retreat was held summer of '99 at Lake Tahoe. The main project page is here.

Agenda:

Thursday, Feb 24
Sibley
Auditorium
8:30-9:00 Coffee and Pastries - Bridges Lounge 1st floor
9:00-9:30 Welcome and HCC Overview (John Canny)
9:30-10:00 Pen Computing and Tangible Interfaces (James Landay)
10:00-10:30 Information Access and Visualization (Marti Hearst)
10:30-11:00 Break - Bridges Lounge 1st floor
11:00-11:30 Natural Language Understanding (Jerry Feldman)
11:30-12:00 Speech Interfaces (Dan Ellis for Nelson Morgan)
12:00-12:30 Education and HCC (Sherry Hsi and Eric Baumgartner)
  12:30-1:30 Lunch - Bridges Lounge and 120A
Bechtel
Meeting Rooms
1:30-3:00 First Breakout/Poster session
3:00-3:30 break - Bridges Lounge
3:30-5:00 Second Breakout/Poster session
Sibley Aud. 5:00-5:30 Feedback


Bechtel is at B5 on the campus map. Sibley Auditorium is on the second floor. The breakout rooms 120A-B-C are on the first floor with the Bridges lounge.

Hotel Info (from the campus)

Breakout Sessions 1:30-3pm:

Breakout Sessions 3:30-5pm: