Design, Technology, & Research

The 2025 DTR annual letter is out! I open up about how we care for our students, and help them grow in ways that universities often overlook. I also share thoughts on the activity of research, and how we can engage with it in light of its goods. Enjoy! DTR.northwestern.edu/letters

The 2024 DTR annual letter is out! The letter shares @hqz's reflections on mentoring and learning, and on our evolving culture and practice. This is a letter to learners & educators everywhere. Enjoy! DTR.northwestern.edu/letters

Celebrating DTR's 10 year anniversary this week with the DTR exhibition, a special screening of the DTR documentary, and an amazing alumni panel! @DTR_DeltaLab @DeltaLabNU @northwesterncs @segaldesign @NorthwesternEng @TheGarageNU @NorthwesternU @nu_hci

Come and join us this Friday (May 12th) in our open house to learn about the projects, work, and community DTR has to offer.

I share with you the first ever DTR annual letter. The letter shares my reflections on mentoring and learning, and on DTR’s evolving culture and practice. This is a personal letter, from me to learners & educators everywhere. l hope you enjoy reading it! DTR.northwestern.edu/letters

Forward, the DTR documentary film, has been released! Check it out at forward.movie to see students write on whiteboards (a LOT), pet a dog, and maybe even grow as HCI researchers...

Today we release our documentary short film, Forward. The film shows our students learning to self-direct research while growing as people. It shares our unique culture. See why we made the film in 🧵, RT to spread the love, and ENJOY the film🍿🍿🍿! forward.movie

Kapil (@kapowgarg) has been prototyping a system to help members of communities of practice develop effective work and learning strategies. He’s looking forward to testing the system in Northwestern’s DTR undergraduate research program soon.

Join us tonight at the Undergraduate Research Expo for a virtual screening of the DTR documentary, followed by a Q&A with @hqz, the filmmakers and current DTR students!

Grab your favorite snack and join us at our Open House tomorrow to learn more about our research projects and the DTR community! Event link: fb.me/e/2dUtlUUze

Come and join us tomorrow (Friday, Feb 18th) in our open house to learn about the projects, work, and community DTR has to offer. RSVP now via fb.me/e/4Zylcv4bv 🤩

We hope your week includes lots of research and cute dogs on Zoom!

Another congrats to Gabriel Caniglia for his #CHI2020 LBW paper Cast: A Context-Aware Collaborative Storytelling Platform. Learn how creating fun and engaging fictional stories like murder mysteries can be made easier with scaffolded opportunistic systems: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114…

We're not done talking about our students' awesome work! Congrats to Daniel Zhu and Salome Kariuki on their paper for #CHI2020 Knowledge Maps: Building Conceptual CSS Knowledge Through Comparison. Check it out here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/33…

Think your lab's PhD mentors are cooler than ours? Think again! Congrats to @RyanCLouie for his #CHI2020 paper done in partnership with the folks over at @GoogleAI

While you'll usually find us working on research, tonight DTR is taking a break for game night on zoom. May the best Zoomer win!

DTR students walking into SIG meeting with a detailed and awesome sprint log like... Have great SIG meetings this week! Can't wait to see you all on Friday

I’m now a 10x developer

Now some #MondayMotivaton! Check out Cooper Barth's work on Mercury: Intelligent Systems as Support Tools for User Agency in Volunteer-Based Crowdsourcing. This project is the epitome of HCI, mixing powerful algorithms to empower new human connection. youtu.be/lD0sDWAKUfY

One challenge of teaching and mentoring many students is identifying when they need help, and how best to provide it. Vishal Giridhar worked last quarter on identifying existing strategies to orchestrate this. Particularly useful as we teach from home! youtu.be/wQldLt5B5jQ