Category Archives: Monthly Meetings

Laziness in the Time of Responsive Design

Meeting date: June 9 – 6:30PM

ethanMarcotte
  • Ethan Marcotte will discuss responsive design and how to do more with less
  • Tuesday, June 9, 2015 at 6:30pm
  • IBM Research Cambridge, 1 Rogers St, Cambridge, MA 02142

 

Abstract

As screens and input types evolve, we’re managing more complexity in our designs than ever before: our layouts are becoming more flexible and responsive; our interfaces, more immersive. Maybe we can look for simpler approaches? In this session, Ethan—a singularly lazy person—will walk through some responsive designs, and show how we might do a lot more with a little bit less.

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Designing Social Interfaces for Serious Applications

Meeting date: April 14  – 6:30PM

Timothy Bickmore Ph.D.
Timothy Bickmore, Ph.D., Associate Professor, College of Computer & Information Science, Northeastern University
  • Dr. Bickmore will discuss his research on  Relational Agents: computational artifacts designed to build long-term social-emotional relationships with their users
  • Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 6:30pm
  • Behrakis Hall, Room 10 (basement), Northeastern University, 30 Leon Street, Boston

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