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Past Event
Segal Seminar Series: Professor Scott Klemmer, UC San Diego
Segal Design Institute
4:00 PM
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ITW, Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center
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"Learning through Collective Intelligence"
The ‘collective’ part of collective intelligence can feel simultaneously uplifting (“we all contribute!”) and surprising (“I thought you needed to be an expert?”). People often have this same pair of feelings about human-centered design. A partial resolution I (and many of us) offer to these reactions is, “it depends on what you mean by expert. Each of us is an expert in our own lives, which can offers a unique perspective. Also, it’s handy to anchor insights in a concrete setting.” One belief that animates both fields is that we’re not restricted to choosing between expert innovation and collective innovation as they exist today. Experts can take a cue from anthropology and embed themselves in a domain to get more situated insights. And we can create and share knowledge and tools that help a wider group of people innovate. For the past 6 years, I’ve worked in online education as both a researcher and practitioner, trying to scale the learning that happens in a design studio to the globe. I’ll share insights from my group’s empirical research and software platforms working toward this goal. A traditional design degree (or PhD or MD) provides focused, multi-year training in a discipline. Some of what’s taught is necessarily cumulative, building on what came before. However, online learning materials of many types show that bite-sized learning is often possible and really useful. How might collective intelligence benefit by weaving focused learning modules (both domain knowledge and process strategies) into an innovation architecture? I’ll share insights and challenges that have emerged from my group’s work — including peer review, scientific discovery, and creativity support—that provide careful process guidance and place focused learning experiences at the point where they’re needed (as opposed to, say, in your ninth grade biology class). This helps collective intelligence participants gain "micro-expertise" and make more creative, practical, and innovate contributions. With such complex sociotechnical systems, a lot of the behavior is emergent, scale-dependent, and importantly different around the globe. This makes moving from the lab to the wild especially important. So along the way I’ll reflect on how the web has dramatically improved our ability to do this Design at Large: creating research that is used around the world for people’s own goals, and improving our knowledge through experiments on these platforms that compare alternatives.
Meet Scott
Scott is a Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science & Engineering at UC San Diego, where he co-founded the Design Lab. He previously served as Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, where he co-directed the HCI Group, held the Bredt Faculty Scholar chair, and was a founding participant in the d.school. He has a PhD in CS from Berkeley and a dual BA in Art-Semiotics and Computer Science from Brown (with Graphic Design work at RISD).
His former graduate students are leading professors (at Berkeley, CMU, UCSD, & UIUC), researchers (Google & Adobe), founders (including Instagram & Pulse), social entrepreneurs, and engineers.
Scott launched the first MOOC to feature open-ended creative work in spring 2012. The peer-review approaches he helped develop are used by major MOOC platforms, touching thousands of learners every day. His group publishes on these topics, disseminating their advances through widely-used open-source software. His course grew into the Interaction Design specialization, designated as one of the ‘most coveted’ Coursera certificates. All together, around 300,000 learners have signed up for his courses.
He has been awarded the Katayanagi Emerging Leadership Prize, Sloan Fellowship, NSF CAREER award, and Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship. Eleven of his papers were awarded best paper or honorable mention at top HCI venues. He is program co-chair of Learning@Scale '18, and was program co-chair for UIST, the CHI systems area, and HCIC. He advises university design programs globally.
Time
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location
ITW, Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center Map
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Segal Design Institute
MaDE You Look! A Design Sprint Challenge
Segal Design Institute
5:00 PM
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DTC Classrooms/Shop, Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center
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The Manufacturing and Design Engineering (MaDE) program invites you and your team to compete in a design sprint challenge hosted by Segal Design Institute. Get ready to bring a design to life with the prompt, "Living one-handed in a two-handed world." Industry partners will be assigned to teams as a coach.
All MaDE students are welcome, and students from other majors can join as long as there's at least one MaDE major on the team. Teams may consist of up to four members.
Friday, April 12, 5 – 8 p.m. and Saturday, April 13, 8 – 5 p.m.
Meals and refreshments provided.
Please register via the link provided.
Time
Friday, April 12, 2024 at 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location
DTC Classrooms/Shop, Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center Map
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Segal Design Institute
MaDE You Look! A Design Sprint Challenge
Segal Design Institute
8:00 AM
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DTC Classrooms/Shop, Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center
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The Manufacturing and Design Engineering (MaDE) program invites you and your team to compete in a design sprint challenge hosted by Segal Design Institute. Get ready to bring a design to life with the prompt, "Living one-handed in a two-handed world." Industry partners will be assigned to teams as a coach.
All MaDE students are welcome, and students from other majors can join as long as there's at least one MaDE major on the team. Teams may consist of up to four members.
Friday, April 12, 5 – 8 p.m. and Saturday, April 13, 8 – 5 p.m.
Meals and refreshments provided.
Please register via the link provided.
Time
Saturday, April 13, 2024 at 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location
DTC Classrooms/Shop, Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center Map
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Segal Design Institute
James Dyson Award Q&A
Segal Design Institute
12:30 PM
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Hive Annex, 2.340, Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center
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A Dyson engineer will give an insider's perspective into their engineering and business practices while providing tips for entering their annual design and engineering competition for university students, the James Dyson Award.
Pizza and drinks will be served!
Please register using the provided link.
Time
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Location
Hive Annex, 2.340, Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center Map
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Segal Design Institute
Bay Area Winter 25 Info Session
Segal Design Institute
4:30 PM
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111, Fisk Hall
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Prepare to thrive at the intersection of technology and media in San Francisco. Spend Winter Quarter 2025 taking design and journalism classes, exploring Bay Area culture, expanding your network, and challenging your way of thinking.
This program is primarily intended for students in McCormick and Medill who will be sophomores and juniors in Winter Quarter 2025, though all are welcome to apply.
Time
Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Location
111, Fisk Hall Map
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Segal Design Institute
Northwestern Engineering PhD Hooding and Master's Degree Recognition Ceremony
McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
9:00 AM
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Welsh-Ryan Arena
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McCormick School of Engineering PhD Hooding and Master’s Degree Recognition Ceremony
Time
Monday, June 10, 2024 at 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location
Welsh-Ryan Arena
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McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Northwestern Engineering Undergraduate Convocation
McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
2:00 PM
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Welsh-Ryan Arena
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McCormick School of Engineering Undergraduate Convocation
Time
Monday, June 10, 2024 at 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location
Welsh-Ryan Arena
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McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science