Research from the College of Information Sciences and Technology found that smart city designs should consider the daily experiences of citizens or allow them to adapt their own solutions, particularly in areas with historically unreliable infrastructures.
Shaowen Bardzell, professor of information sciences and technology, has been elected as executive vice-president for the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI), the premier international society for all professionals, academics and students interested in human-computer interaction.
Researchers from the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology made a methodological contribution toward a potential answer to the challenging problem of how to operationalize posthuman concepts into practice for human-computer interaction through the art of noticing — specifically, observing birds to reimagine their relationship to the natural world as designers of technologies.
Shaowen Bardzell, professor of information sciences and technology, presented a keynote address on March 23 at the virtual New Materialist Informatics 2021 conference. The talk, titled “Muddled Theories and Vibrant Mud: Notes on a Career of Reading and Walking” engaged feminist new materialist, ecofeminist, posthumanist, and feminist utopian thinking on climate crises.
Shaowen Bardzell, professor of information sciences and technology, has joined the College of Information Sciences and Technology faculty this fall. Bardzell is an internationally recognized scholar in feminism and human-computer interaction (HCI), critical and humanistic computing, and design research, strengthening the college’s expertise and research focus in the area of HCI.
Ten new faculty members will join the College of Information Sciences and Technology for the 2020-21 academic year. The new faculty will support the rapidly growing college and the addition of three new degree programs: a bachelor’s in enterprise technology integration, a master’s in cybersecurity analytics and operations, and an online bachelor’s in cybersecurity analytics and operations through Penn State World Campus.