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Segal Seminar Series: Professor Scott Klemmer, UC San Diego
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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.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2018 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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ITW, Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center Map
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Friday, September 2, 2022
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Friday, September 16, 2022
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Welcome & Luncheon for New Full-time Graduate Students **Group 1 - see program list
McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
11:15 AM
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Ryan Family Auditorium, Technological Institute
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Enjoy a welcome from Dean Julio M. Ottino and MGLC leaders, and receive a Northwestern Engineering T-shirt. A free lunch on the Tech East Plaza will follow.
Meet your classmates from the following programs :
Master of Engineering Management
Master of Product Design and Development Management
Master of Science in Analytics
Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence
Master of Science in Biotechnology
Master of Science in Energy and Sustainability
Master of Science in Executive Management for Design and Construction
Master of Science in Information Technology
Master of Science in Project Management
Master of Science in Robotics
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Monday, September 19, 2022 at 11:15 AM - 1:00 PM
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Ryan Family Auditorium, Technological Institute Map
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Welcome & Luncheon for New Graduate Students **Group 2 - see program list
McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
12:15 PM
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Ryan Family Auditorium, Technological Institute
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Enjoy a welcome from Dean Julio M. Ottino and MGLC leaders, and receive a Northwestern Engineering T-shirt. A free lunch on the Tech East Plaza will follow.
Meet your classmates from the following programs:
Applied Physics
Biomedical Engineering
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Computer Engineering
Computer Science
Electrical Engineering
Engineering Design Innovation
Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Materials Science and Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
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Monday, September 19, 2022 at 12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
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Ryan Family Auditorium, Technological Institute Map
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Tuesday, September 20, 2022
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Thanksgiving vacation begins 6 p.m.
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Thanksgiving vacation begins 6 p.m.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2022
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Thanksgiving Break ends and Fall classes resume
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Monday, November 28, 2022
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Fall examinations end
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Saturday, December 10, 2022
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Northwestern Engineering PhD Hooding and Master's Recognition Ceremony
McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
4:00 PM
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Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
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The ceremony takes place at 4 p.m. on Saturday, December 10 in Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, 50 Arts Circle Drive.
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Saturday, December 10, 2022 at 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
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Fall Degrees Conferred
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Friday, December 16, 2022
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