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The Department of Informatics at UC Irvine seeks to make a positive difference in how people live, work, and build in a digital world. Wherever technology touches people, it must be designed with ultimate care. This requires mastery of technological knowhow and a deep appreciation of the social, cultural, and organizational forces at work. To that end, we study interactions among information technologies and people, create innovative information technologies that serve the diverse needs of society, and educate our students to be leaders in these endeavors. With technology impacting and enabling so much of our lives, we asked our faculty what drives their research.

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April17
Informatics Seminar Series

Technology and the Neurodivergent Family

Meryl Alper
Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Northeastern University
1:00 PM
6011, Donald Bren Hall

Abstract: Research on media, technology, and neurodivergence has expanded greatly over the past decade to be more inclusive of neurodivergent (ND) adults (particularly those identifying…

April24
Informatics Seminar Series

Building Worker Resilience in Place-Based Communities amid Rapid Technological Change

Yasmine Kotturi
Assistant Professor, Information Systems, Affiliate Faculty, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
1:00 PM
6011, Donald Bren Hall

Abstract: While the “future of work” promises innovation and opportunity, it often manifests as uncertainty and instability—exposing a stark divide between optimistic predictions and lived…

May1
Informatics Seminar Series

Black feminist information equity: Understanding and addressing barriers to Black women and femmes’ information access and use

Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin
Assistant Professor of Information, School of Information, University of Michigan
1:00 PM
6011, Donald Bren Hall

Abstract: Information Science has historically examined information (in)equity from the perspective of how individual or societal conditions produce behaviors that impact physical or cognitive access…

May8
Informatics Seminar Series

Research as the Practice of Freedom

Stacy Branham
Associate Professor of Informatics, University of California, Irvine
1:00 PM
6011, Donald Bren Hall

Abstract: As systems of domination increasingly grip the academy with anti-intellectual, anti-democratic, and uncaring force, professors like me despair: what can we do? I have…

May15
Informatics Seminar Series

Ready Player Three? Children’s Ideas and Interactions with AI (and “AI”) in the Parasocial Gameworld

Sara Grimes
Professor, Communication Studies, McGill University
1:00 PM
Zoom

Abstract: AI technologies are rapidly being woven into the games, platforms, and devices that children use for digital play. Yet little is known about how…

May15

UC Irvine Research Forum Series – Developer Experience

UC Irvine Institute for Software Research
1:00 PM
6011, Donald Bren Hall

Join us for the UC Irvine Research Forum on Developer Experience RSVP Now! We are excited to announce the inaugural event of a new Research…

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