Past Events
Mar
17
GVU Center Brown Bag: Dhanaraj Thakur — Finding the Sweet Spot: Working At The Intersection Between Research and Technology Policy
In this seminar, Dhanaraj Thakur addresses how we can design research that informs technology policy debates, advance human rights advocacy, and offer a contribution to the field.
Mar
10
IPaT Thursday Think Tank: Convergence Innovation Competition
A weekly gathering of the IPaT community to brainstorm about research and stay informed about the work that everyone is doing
Mar
10
GVU Center Brown Bag: Ashok Goel — National AI Institute for Adult Learning and Online Education: Vision, Goals and Plans
In this seminar, Ashok Goel discusses how AI-ALOE (headquartered at Georgia Tech) will take education to workers where they live.
Mar
3
IPaT Thursday Think Tank: Campus Research Open Meetings Think Tank
Open meeting to connect with faculty and research groups
Mar
3
CANCELLED... GVU Center Brown Bag: Patricia Garcia on Expressive Electronics – Broadening Participation in Computing Through Identity Exploration
This seminar is cancelled. Please be sure to join us next week for our speaker Ashok Goel who will be telling us about the new National AI Institute for Adult Learning and Online Education.
Feb
24
IPaT Thursday Think Tank: Research Next
A conversation highlighting the Research Next initiative
Feb
24
GVU Center Brown Bag: Nithya Sambasivan—The Myopia of Model Centrism
In this seminar, Nithya Sambasivan discusses how fundamentals of AI systems are viewed in AI development.
Feb
17
IPaT Thursday Think Tank: Community Connection
A weekly gathering of the IPaT community to brainstorm about research and stay informed about the work that everyone is doing
Feb
17
GVU Center Brown Bag: Jim McCann — What Do Knitting Machines Make?
This seminar will be a richly-illustrated, reasonably self-contained romp through the world of knitting design tools and representations.
Feb
10
IPaT Town Hall - Feb10 - 2022
The Institute of People and Technology (IPaT) invites you to join us for our annual Town Hall
Feb
10
GVU Center Brown Bag: Golnaz Arastoopour Irgens — Co-Designing a Critical Machine Learning Educational Program With and For Children
In this seminar, Golnaz Arastoopour Irgens discusses the development of a critical machine learning after-school education program.
Feb
3
IPaT Thursday Think Tank: Wearable Technology Designer’s Web Tool
IPaT Thursday Think Tank highlighting a new tool for wearable design technology
Feb
3
GVU Center Brown Bag: Jason Wiese — Not Just Another User Study: Uncovering Systematic Shortcomings Of Familiar Research Methods
In this seminar, Jason Wiese asks how do our methods fall short, and whom do we harm in those shortcomings?
Jan
20
GVU Center Brown Bag: Carl DiSalvo — Design as Democratic Inquiry
In this seminar, Carl DiSalvo discusses his new book, Design as Democratic Inquiry.
Jan
13
GVU Center Brown Bag: Lauren Margulieux — Building Theory in STEM Education Research: Spatial Encoding Strategies Theory and Multiple Conceptions Theory
In this seminar, theory-building work will explain the mechanisms of how people learn. This talk will discuss two theories.
Dec
2
GVU Center Brown Bag: Christina Chung — Personal Informatics in the Changing, Social World
This seminar examines the collaborative use of personal informatics data.
Nov
18
IPaT Thursday Think Tank: Convergence Innovation Competition (CIC) Finalists Showcase
Convergence Innovation Competition (CIC) Finalists Showcase
Nov
18
Fall 2021 Convergence Innovation Competition Winner Announcement
The finalist projects from the Convergence Innovation Competition (CIC) will be featured in the IPaT Thursday Think Tank series.
Nov
18
GVU Center Brown Bag: Clio Andris — Human Network Regions as Spatial Units for COVID-19 Policy Implementation
This seminar considers the measure of COVID-19 cases, case rates, and case rate variation and examines these dynamics along the boundaries of functional regions and state boundaries.
Nov
17
Fall 2021 Convergence Innovation Competition Finalist Judging - Day 1
The final round of judging for the fall 2021 Convergence Innovation Competition is a two-day process. Selected teams who participated in the first round of judging are invited to participate in the second round.
Nov
11
IPaT Thursday Think Tank: Healthcare Data HowTo
In this Think Tank we will review how to get started with and grow research efforts working with protected healthcare data at Georgia Tech.
Nov
11
GVU Center Brown Bag: Noopur Raval — Studying Intersectional Challenges in Gig Work — co-hosted by CHIWORK.org
This brownbag is co-hosted by CHIWORK.org, a speaker series on the future of work in HCI, and is moderated by Neha Kumar, Associate Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Nov
8
Fall 2021 Convergence Innovation Competition First Round Judging
As part of the Convergence Innovation Competition, a panel of industry and campus partners will review teams’ submission materials virtually.
Nov
7
Fall 2021 Convergence Innovation Competition Submission Deadline
Submissions for the Fall 2021 Convergence Innovation Competition are due by 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, November 7, 2021.
Nov
4
IPaT Thursday Think Tank: Art & AI
Art & AI