UCSC experts in human-computer interaction featured at Women in Tech Symposium

Leila Takayama, associate professor of computational media at UC Santa Cruz, will join Dean of Berkeley Engineering Tsu-Jae King Liu to kick off this year’s Women in Tech Symposium with a “fireside chat” on defining the new era of human-computer interaction.

Now in its fifth year, this annual symposium will showcase sector opportunities, current challenges, and the career paths of experts in human-computer interaction (HCI). The Fifth Annual Women in Tech Symposium on the New Era of Human Computer Interaction will take place virtually on Friday, March 12.

Human-computer interaction is a multidisciplinary field that combines new technology in cyber-physical systems with human-centered design and usability. The symposium will examine leading-edge technologies and challenges to ensuring equitable and inclusive HCI. The Center for Computational Experience in UCSC’s Baskin School of Engineering is a cosponsor of the symposium, which is organized by CITRIS and the Banatao Institute.

Katherine Isbister, the center’s director and a professor of computational media at UC Santa Cruz, will host a panel discussion on human-computer interaction and games.

“This panel brings together women with deep expertise in different areas at the intersection of games and human-computer interaction,” Isbister said. “They are all doing interesting work, and they show the surprising breadth of work being done in this area.”

The panelists include UCSC alumna Anne Sullivan, an assistant professor of digital media at Georgia Tech and director of the StoryCraft Research Lab; Rilla Khaled, an associate professor of design and computation arts at Concordia University in Montreal and director of the Technoculture, Art, and Games Research Center; and Regan Mandryk, professor of computer science at the University of Saskatchewan and a pioneer in the study of games users and their experiences.

Isbister’s research focuses on developing new methods for improving the experience of interactive technologies. She is particularly interested in designing games and other interactive experiences that heighten social and emotional connections. She is the author of several books, including Better Game Characters by Design and, more recently, How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design.

Takayama, who studies human-robot interaction, is also affiliated with the Center for Computational Experience, which brings together faculty with expertise in engineering, arts, humanities, and design. Takayama uses her background in psychology, cognitive science, and HCI to examine human encounters with new technologies. Prior to joining the faculty at UC Santa Cruz in 2016, she was a senior user experience researcher at GoogleX and was a research scientist and area manager for human-robot interaction at Willow Garage. She is a World Economic Forum Global Future Council Member and Young Global Leader.

Other speakers at the symposium include Katia Canepa Vega (UC Davis), Ankita Raturi (Purdue University), Jenna Rodriguez (CERES Imaging), Christina Harrington (DePaul University), and Uma Balakrishnan (Tesla). The event will also feature presentations of the Women in Tech Initiative’s Athena Awards. Melody Ivory, technologist at Thrivafy, will close the event with a talk titled “Sustainable Disruption: Ensuring an #InclusiveHCI Future Is Not Enough.”

Additional details and registration information for the 2021 Women In Tech Symposium is available online at wit2021.eventbrite.com.

The Women in Technology Initiative at the University of California is a program jointly launched in 2017 by CITRIS and the Banatao Institute and Berkeley Engineering to advocate for women in the tech industry and academia to be proportionately represented and equitably compensated throughout the professional ranks.

The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the Banatao Institute drive interdisciplinary innovation for social good with faculty researchers and students from four University of California campuses—Berkeley, Davis, Merced, and Santa Cruz—along with public and private partners.

House Democrats are finalizing the details of President Biden’s $1.9 trillion economic relief package, and barreling toward a vote on the final legislation at the end of next week.

Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, the majority leader, told House Democrats during a conference call on Tuesday that he hoped to have the legislation reach the House floor by next Friday, according to two people familiar with the remarks.

“Our challenges are immense, and the House must meet them with bold and resolute action,” Mr. Hoyer wrote on Tuesday in a letter to Democrats, warning that votes on the stimulus plan could go into the weekend.

Committees have been meeting remotely during the House recess to haggle over the details of Mr. Biden’s proposal, with the budget and rules committees expected to be the last two panels to finalize the legislation in the coming days.

In its current form, the stimulus legislation would provide billions of dollars for schools and small businesses, bolster unemployment benefits through the fall, deliver a round of $1,400 direct payments to individuals and provide for a gradual increase in the federal minimum wage to $15.

Faced with a lapse in unemployment benefits beginning in mid-March, lawmakers hope to have the legislation passed through the House by the end of February, before sending it to the Senate. House Democratic leaders scheduled a series of phone calls this week for committees to brief rank-and-file lawmakers about the details of the emerging legislation.

Democrats aim to pass the plan using a fast track budgetary process, known as reconciliation, which would allow them to push it through the Senate with a simple majority. But it also requires lawmakers to adhere to a series of strict budget parameters, designed to prevent the process from being abused with extraneous provisions, that could derail certain liberal priorities, including the minimum wage increase.

Despite using the same parliamentary maneuvers in 2017, Republicans have argued that Democrats are forcing Mr. Biden to renege on his promises for bipartisan collaboration by cutting them out of the process. During committee work earlier this month, Republicans largely failed to force a series of amendments that would have forced the package to be more targeted in its delegation of relief or imposed requirements on the billions of dollars in funds.

Mr. Hoyer on Tuesday confirmed plans to bring back earmarks, the banned practice of tucking pet projects into sweeping spending bills, rebranding the funding moves as “congressional initiatives.”

In the letter to Democrats, he also said that the House would vote on a package of wilderness legislation and the Equality Act, which would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation. In March, the chamber is expected to take up Democrats’ centerpiece voting rights and anti-corruption legislation, as well as police reform legislation that House Democrats pushed through during the 116th Congress, but failed to get through the Senate.

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