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EDI Online Information Session
Segal Design Institute
11:30 AM
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Develop New Concepts Using a Human-Centered Approach
Are you looking to solve complex problems through design thinking? Join our online information session to learn how a Master of Science in Engineering Design Innovation (EDI) from Northwestern will prepare you to lead cross-functional teams and design groundbreaking new products and services.
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Thursday, October 29, 2020 at 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
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Executive Education
Segal Design Institute
8:30 AM
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Managing Product Design & Development
3-Day Certificate Program
Gain the skills to manage the design and development of products for strategic competitive advantage. This intensive three-day certificate program provides the skills related to managing creativity and design, customer-focused innovation, gap analysis in the design process, strategy in design, industrial design essentials, human factors, research, marketing and intellectual property. Participants will also gain skills in managing the product development phase-gate process, teams, and product performance metrics.
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Monday, February 1, 2021 at 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
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Segal Seminar Series: Juho Kim, Director of KIXLAB at KAIST
Segal Design Institute
4:00 PM
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With the recent advances in AI, more AI-powered interactive systems have been designed to support people in various everyday tasks. The tension arises, however, when we apply state-of-the-art AI technology to a real-world task without careful consideration of users and their context. I argue that human-AI interaction should be considered a first-class object in designing AI-powered systems. In this talk, I’ll present a few novel interactive systems that use AI techniques to support everyday tasks such as learning, data analytics, and group discussion. I’ll discuss how human-AI interaction is considered in these systems, what tensions we encountered and how we addressed them, and how to design better intelligent and adaptive systems for real-world use.
Bio
Juho Kim is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing at KAIST, and directs KIXLAB (the KAIST Interaction Lab). His research in human-computer interaction focuses on building interactive systems that support interaction at scale. Research interests include crowdsourcing and human computation, online education and learning at scale, civic engagement and collective action, and interactive data analytics and mining. He earned his Ph.D. from MIT in 2015, M.S. from Stanford University in 2010, and B.S. from Seoul National University in 2008. In 2015-2016, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor and a Brown Fellow at Stanford University. He is a recipient of KAIST’s Songam Distinguished Research Award, Grand Prize in Creative Teaching, and Excellence in Teaching Award, as well as 12 paper awards from ACM CHI, ACM CSCW, ACM Learning at Scale, ACM IUI, ACM DIS, and AAAI HCOMP.
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Tuesday, February 2, 2021 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Healthcare Innovation During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
2:00 PM
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Healthcare innovation has taken off despite — and because of — the challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Join us as US business editor for The Economist and Visiting Farley Fellow Vijay Vaitheeswaran moderates a panel discussing the latest advances in the field and how the very process of innovation is being reinvented right now. We’ll cover topics in digital health, including telemedicine, "quantified self" devices, consumer empowerment through smart apps, and back-office automation using robotic process automation and AI. We’ll also explore how the pandemic has led to an evolution in process such as open innovation in pharmaceuticals, an industry which has traditionally been secretive about research and development.
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Vijay Vaitheeswaran
US business editor for The Economist; Visiting Farley Fellow
Panelists
Vivian Lee
Author of The Long Fix: Solving America’s Health Care Crisis; President of Health Platforms at Verily Life Sciences (Alphabet); and senior lecturer at Harvard
Milton Morris
Kellogg MBA '04, President & CEO at NeuSpera Medical
John Rogers
Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Neurological Surgery (and by courtesy Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Chemistry)
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Friday, February 12, 2021 at 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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Saturday, March 13, 2021
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Winter Examinations Begin
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Winter Examinations Begin
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Monday, March 15, 2021
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