Distinguished Discussion Series with Don Norman—Thursday, February 27
Join us Thursday, February 27, in the Kennecott Mechanical Engineering Building (MEK) 3550 at 5:30 PM for our Distinguished Discussion Series with Don Norman.
Don Norman was the Founding Director of the Design Lab and Founding Chair of the Department of Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is the co-founder of the Nielsen Norman Group, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the American Association of Arts and Science, and the former Vice President of Apple. He has published 21 books translated into 20 languages, including Emotional Design and Design of Everyday Things. His latest book is Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered. The book compelled him to move from writing to actually doing something. His charity, The Don Norman Design Award, rewards early career practitioners who practice what he preaches.
This is a discussion and not a lecture. Don will answer questions raised by the audience in this session. The discussion is open to the public.
If you'd like to meet Don, please add your name to the document here.
Kabir Kazi Sinthia
Kazi Sinthia Kabir
kskabir@cs.utah.edu
MEB 3462
Website | Google Scholar
Research Interests
Human Centered Computing; Personal Informatics
Advisor
Mary Hall
Register for UCBPC's Broadening Participation in Computing panel on August 30
Join the Utah Center for Broadening Participation in Computing on August 30 at 4 p.m. in Warnock Engineering Building (WEB) room 1230.
Dr. Marina Kogan, Dr. Lekha Patel, and Dr. Luis Garcia will be discussing experience in CS from a less-represented perspective, advice for CS students coming from a less represented background, and ways in which community can be built from understanding personal challenges.
The registration form can be found here.
Researchers Demonstrate the First Autonomous Medical Robot That Steers Needles In Vivo
To safely operate, an autonomous vehicle needs to be able to recognize and avoid obstacles in real time. Even a momentary lapse could lead to disastrous consequences, especially if the vehicle is a medical needle, less than a millimeter wide, navigating through the cluttered tissue of a patient’s lungs en route to a cancerous nodule.
Safely and accurately reaching a site inside living tissue is currently often challenging for physicians, especially inside complex, moving anatomy like the lung. Errors can be fatal: the failure to precisely reach a suspicious nodule in the lung can result in an inaccurate diagnosis and hence allow cancer to spread untreated. An autonomous robot has the potential to exceed the accuracy that a human operator can safely accomplish using currently available tools.
A team of researchers from the University of Utah’s John and Marcia Price College of Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Vanderbilt University have demonstrated, for the first time, a robotic needle capable of autonomously maneuvering around obstacles to a target in living tissue.
