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Segal Seminar Series: Petr Slovak, HCC Group, King's College London
Segal Design Institute
4:00 PM
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ITW 1-350, Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center
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Smart toys and Alexa-driven parenting: how to promote mental health with digital technologies?
Can digital technologies deliver prevention interventions — i.e promote psychological resilience of those at risk and lower the occurrence of mental illness later in life? While this is not a question commonly asked within HCI so far, research in Prevention Science suggests that such programs could have strong impacts on life outcomes, particularly for those from disadvantaged backgrounds. To date, traditional prevention interventions are substantially limited in scope and cost-effectiveness by relying on delivery techniques and intervention mechanisms that have been around since the 60s: teaching experiential skills in class or a workshop, by a trained human. By way of analogy, this is similar to delivering skiing lessons indoors through role-play and video, and then expecting learners to be ready to immediately apply newly acquired skills on black slopes, with no additional support.
In this talk, I will outline an alternative approach based on technology-enabled ‘situating’ of the intervention support and learning directly into everyday moments where the targeted skills are needed. I will illustrate these conceptual arguments by drawing on our work across a range of contexts (emotion-regulation, conflict resolution, parenting). The specific emphasis will be on the ‘Smart Toy’ project, where an emotion regulation intervention is delivered to children through a technology-enabled plush toy — the research prototype of which is currently taken to production by a Seattle-based non-profit developers of a social-emotional program used in 30% of US schools (Committee for Children). This research suggest the potential of emerging technologies (and careful socio-technical design) to re-imagine how prevention interventions are designed, delivered, and evaluated.
About
Petr Slovak is an Assistant Professor in Human Computer Interaction at King’s College London, where he is a member of the Human-Centred Computing group. He also holds an Honorary Research Fellow position at Evidence-Based Practice Unit at UCL and a Visiting position at the Human-Centred Computing group at Oxford University. His research is focused on envisioning, designing, and evaluating new technology-enabled mental health interventions; and has received ACM Best Paper awards at CHI and CSCW. Petr was recognised as a Schroedinger Fellow by the Austrian Science Fund, and was the DOC Fellow of the Austrian Science Academy during his PhD. He holds two bachelor’s (Psychology/Sociology and Theoretical Computer Science) and a master’s degree (Parallel and Distributed Systems) all from Masaryk University; and a PhD in Human Computer Interaction from TU Wien, supervised by Prof Geraldine Fitzpatrick.
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Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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ITW 1-350, Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center Map
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Segal Design Institute
Annual Segal Iron Pour
Segal Design Institute
7:30 PM
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Evanston Township High School
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The Segal Iron Pour is an annual event that introduces students to a centuries-old manufacturing process. During the Iron Pour, students pour molten iron from a 2,700-degree furnace into 3D-printed and sand-casted molds.
The event is held as a culmination of DSGN 395-64: Leonardo, Geometry, and the Art of Manufacturing, a course taught by Segal faculty members Matthew Cummins and David Gatchell.
Join us for the 6th annual Segal Iron Pour, a one-of-a-kind experience that aims to stimulate curiosity in sand casting, forging, and other types of manufacturing. The Iron Pour features Segal students, faculty, and staff who will demonstrate the forging process by pouring hundreds of pounds of molten iron into creatively designed molds. The Segal Iron Pour is open to the McCormick community, including students, faculty, and staff.
Time
Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
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Evanston Township High School
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Segal Design Institute
Extending Care: A Conversation about Conservation and Futurity
Block Museum of Art
6:00 PM
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Block Museum of Art, Mary and Leigh
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The Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts is a collaboration between the Art Institute of Chicago and materials science-related departments at Northwestern University to pursue objects-based and objects-inspired scientific research. Materials research benefits ongoing work in conservation, archaeology, art history, and curatorial scholarship.
Learn how the Center uses materials research to care for art objects in sustainable, innovative ways with Maria Kokkori, Northwestern Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Senior Scientist in the Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts. She will be in conversation with Corey Byrnes, Northwestern Associate Professor of Chinese Culture and co-founder/co-director of the Environmental Humanities Workshop in Kaplan Humanities Center.
This event is presented by the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science in conjunction with exhibition Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology.
Time
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Block Museum of Art, Mary and Leigh Map
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Block Museum of Art
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
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Monday, June 10, 2024 at 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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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
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Monday, June 10, 2024 at 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Welsh-Ryan Arena
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McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science