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SUMMARY:HCI: Going from Technology-Centeredness to Human-Centeredness in CS
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sruti S Ragavan (IIT Kanpur)\n\nAbstract: \nTraditiona
 l computer science is often technology-centered\, focusing on capability\,
  efficiency\, accuracy\, and automation. While powerful\, this approach al
 one can lead to systems that look great on paper but are frustrating\, con
 fusing\, or simply ignored in practice. Human-centered approaches flip thi
 s: they design systems around human needs\, behaviors\, and contexts. This
  is the focus of Human-Computer Interaction or HCI\, the subfield of compu
 ting that asks not just ‘Can we build this?’ but ‘Will people want t
 o learn and use it’?\, ‘Will people actually use it’? or ‘Will thi
 s cause damage to people and societies?’ You can think of HCI as the ‘
 salt in a meal’–rarely the main ingredient\, but absolutely essential.
  When it’s missing\, everything feels off. When it’s right\, technolog
 y becomes intuitive\, effective\, and sometimes even invisible.\nThis talk
  offers a quick tour of HCI as an interdisciplinary field where computer s
 cience meets psychology\, sociology\, and design\, and shows how an outsi
 de-in\, human-first perspective can change what we build\, and why it matt
 ers. It will also cover the nature of contemporary research and praxis in
  HCI.\nBio: Sruti S Ragavan is an assistant professor in the Department of
  Computer Science\, and an Adjunct in the Department of Cognitive Sciences
  at IIT Kanpur\, India. Before that\, she was a HCI researcher in the Calc
  Intelligence group at Microsoft Research in their Cambridge (UK) lab. She
  did her PhD in Computer Science at the Oregon State University. Her resea
 rch interests are in Human-Computer Interaction\, with a specific interest
  in building systems for users that are not savvy with the technology they
  must use.\n
URL:https://www.tcs.tifr.res.in/web/events/1728
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