CHI 2010 Stranded Traveler Info

Events at Georgia Tech This Week

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Wednesday

GVU Movie Night

Wednesday night, April 21st in the Technology Square Research Building we are showing the movie 'The Terminal'
Date/time: Please gather around at 6:30pm; the movie will start at 7:00pm. Dinner will be provided (menu TBA).
Location: TSRB Auditorium

Garden of Growth "Meet & Greet"

During Think Green Week, the Skiles walkway on GT campus will be transformed into a sculpture garden made of recyclable materials gathered from GT campus. On Wednesday afternoon, meet and greet this year's Garden of Growth design team, including Georgia State University Art Professor and recycled material artist, Pam Longobardi.
Date/Time: 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Location: In the grassy area adjacent to the Skiles walkway
http://www.earthday.gatech.edu/think_green_week.html

Thursday

GVU Brown Bag: Brian Schrank, Geoff Thomas, & Jay Bolter

The GVU Brown Bag series features guest speakers on a variety of topics of particular interest to the GVU community. Lunch is ready by 11:30 and the talks begin at 12 pm. There is no charge to attend.
Date/Time: April 22, 2010, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Location: TSRB Auditorium

CHI 2010 Volcano Week "Open mic" at GVU.

So what about all the crazy Europeans hanging around GVU? Come participate in a panel & open-mic session to find out!
Date/Time: 1-3pm Thurs April 22
Location: TSRB Auditorium
1-2 Panel & open mic: "Life as an HCI researcher" - 'non-US' perspectives
Facilitator: Geraldine Fitzpatrick (Vienna) Come and hear
- How Gary Marsden (Cape Town) ended up in Africa and why he's limping
- Why Matt Jones (Swansea) was nearly a vicar instead of a researcher
- How Jakob Bardram (Copenhagen) left a high flying IBM position to return to academia
- and other stories TBA
Ask questions, share, discuss...anything that is of interest about being a researcher, 'doing' HCI, and having a life
2-3 Open mic: "Where to now Scotty?"
Facilitated by Tom Rodden, Steve Benford (Nottingham) Brainstorming whacky, exciting, creative research ideas!
- bigraphs and trajectories...
- what's inspiring you? inspired you?
- where are the new opportunities, new challenges?
- what if... dream

Creativity + Cognition + Computation (C3)

Professor Keith Sawyer, Washington University in St. Louis Keith Sawyer is an Associate Professor of Education at Washington University, with additional appointments in the Department of Psychology and the School of Business. His most recent books include Group Genius: The Creative Power Of Collaboration and The Cambridge Handbook Of The Learning Sciences. For his sabbatical year, he spent the fall as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge, and he is now a Visiting Professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
Title: Creative Teaching and Learning In the 1980s, the cognitive revolution of the 1970s began to influence scholarship in two areas: creativity and learning. In creativity, this influence has resulted in the contemporary prominence of the "creative cognition" approach and the "sociocultural" approaches to creativity. These approaches have largely replaced an earlier emphasis on the personality traits of creative individuals. In learning, these lines of research have resulted in the learning sciences, an interdisciplinary field of research that emerged from a combination of cognitive, situated, and distributed views of learning. My current project is an attempt to synergistically combine these two contemporary lines of research, with the goal of better understanding how to design learning environments that help learners be capable of more creative thinking and behavior. Toward this end, in Summer 2009 I conducted a one-month study of an innovative learning environment, the San Francisco Exploratorium. I use the Exploratorium as a case study to examine three characteristics that I argue must be true of all creative learning environments: (1) a shared cultural model of creative learning; (2) a process to create new learning environments; (3) a way to prepare creative teachers.
Date/Time: April 22, 2010, 3:30-4:30 PM (refreshments at 3)
Location: TSRB 134

Screening of "Coal Country"

This documentary takes a dramatic look at mountaintop coal removal in Appalachia. GT Assistant Professor Dr. Doyoyo will give an introductory talk before the film.
Date/Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Clary Theater, Student Success Center
Think Green Week

Friday

THE OBJECT-ORIENTED ONTOLOGY SYMPOSIUM

Date/Time: Friday, April 23 8:30 am - 5:30 pm
Location: Clary Theater, Georgia Tech campus
The event is free and open to the public. No registration is required, however seating is limited.
Schedule

Saturday

Georgia Tech Earth Hour Celebration

Campanile on Saturday, April 24th from 7-9 pm for the finale of Earth Day weekend. Live music, free food.
Earthday at GaTech

Rasta Thomas' Bad Boys of Dance

Date/Time: April 22, 2010 8:00 pm
Tickets: $32, $42
Location: Ferst Center for the Arts
Using physical prowess, raw masculinity, and technical perfection, dance superstar Rasta Thomas and his stunningly talented Bad Boys move to the rhythms of ballet, Broadway, tango and hip-hop to deliver a highly imaginative and entertaining show.
Atlanta premiere performance!

The Producers