We bring together professionals from academia and industry to share ideas, research and practices related to user experience, usability, interaction design, human computer interaction and other related topics.

We meet the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 6-7:30pm, followed by dinner nearby.

Next Meeting: March 9, 2010, 6:00pm: Machine Learning
Speaker: Vicente Malave, Phd Candidate, UCSD Websense - Atrium, 10240 Sorrento Valley Rd San Diego, CA 92121 US Please join us for dinner and networking at 8:00 at Cozymel's. Abstract: Many recent "mind reading" studies have appeared, predicting the stimulus from functional MRI data. From a few seconds of brain activity, we were able to predict the category of object a person was thinking of, even when we only trained the algorithm on other people. In a follow-up study, we learned a mapping between brain activity, and a very simple theory of word meaning: that the brain represents similarity between nouns by making use of the most common verbs which appear close to that noun, as measured in a trillion word corpus. The resulting model can predict the brain activity to novel words which were not used to fit the model with a high degree of accuracy.

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2009 Board Members:
President: Jeff Axup
Vice President: Sharon Carmichael
Coordinator: Joe Chang