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This talk demonstrates that Artificial intelligence can competently Improve human interaction with systems and even each other in a myriad of natural scenarios. Humans work to understand and react to each others intentions. (November 30, 2007)

Today's designers generate content both on paper and online. Designers spread their work over physical and digital media, each of which has powerful – but distinct – sets of affordances. (December 7, 2007)

Ge Wang presents the design, philosophy, and development of ChucK, a computer music programming language intending to provide a different approach, expressiveness, and thinking with respect to time and parallelism in audio programming.(November 16, 2007)

This talk delves into 5 interrelated keys that Microsoft teams focus on to elevate the impact of "design research".  (November 9, 2007)

Even more fragmented than American health care is the management of health care information. Faced with a barrage of poorly organized health information, physicians and other clinicians must sift through uninspired displays. (October 26, 2007)

Most of us engage in magical thinking when it comes to the long term fate of our digital stuff. This magical thinking may manifest itself in several ways: technological optimism, radical ephemeralism, or simply a gap between principals.(November 2, 2007)

Over the last few years, we've realized that many of the information environments are gradually turning people into social foragers and sharers. (October 19, 2007)

Mobility is no longer sufficient; location-tracking is a key feature. However, the introduction of location-based technologies has traditionally been accompanied by a series of concerns over privacy.

Pen and paper are powerful tools for visualizing designs, penning music, and communicating through art and written language. Ron explores how we can combine the power of pen and paper with the benefits of computation. (October 5, 2007)