Transforming Everyone, Everywhere Into Creators!
One of the goals of the HCI@WVU Laboratory is to empower everyone, everywhere to innovate and create novel artifacts that can improve our daily lives. To accomplish this goal, the group makes novel technology to crowdsource outreach events and enable a larger population to be part of the digital revolution.ICTD '16: Innovations Across Countries Workshop
We organized a workshop at the International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development. ICTD'16 is a research conference that explores the role of information and communication technologies in global development. Our workshop showcased innovation that was occurring by people in developing countries, especially, research from groups we might not conventionally hear about. Our lab also presented research on crowdsourcing volunteering.Ouishare Fest: Hack and Dance!
Google I/O: Leader Anita Borg Community
Google named me director of the North America Anita Borg Community for my research in crowdsourcing outreach events. I was one of the most active community members, organizing the largest number of outreach events in the region. Congratulations to our awesome team and reach that made this possible!Dataland: Empowering Women to Talk About Data Science
“Dataland” took place at National Autonomous University of Mexico. Two hundred undergraduate and graduate students heard a series of talks focused on data with a number of female speakers. It was great to give ladies who are doing really cool things with data a chance to shine and show off their work. Some of them had never had a chance to present to such a large audience and people really liked their research.FixIT Hackathon: Large Scale Latina Hackathon
We have also helped organize and been a speaker to show computer science research done by the Four Eyes Lab to junior high and high school students.
Some lab members have given talks to motivate teens to study computer science at middle schools in Goleta, California.