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NOMADS: The HCI Podcast!

Connie and Sunny, two HCI grad students talk to professionals from diverse and rich backgrounds in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. As you see, we'd like to call ourselves NOMADS as we have been moving from place to place, away from our comfort zones, friends and family not only for opportunities and wisdom, but mainly because we want to make these societies more Equitable, Humane and Accessible through HCI and Technology! While HCI, Design and Tech are considered to be niche and fancy, I think we are responsible to create outreach about what we do and why it matters for all the 7 billion people(in the long run, of course).

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The Rigor and Repurposing of Academic Research & Being Your Authentic Self w/Reality Canty

October 16, 2020 • Sunny M • Season 1 • Episode 7

Reality Canty joins NOMADS: The HCI Podcast to share, in his own words, his experiences in life including "excelling in school, commandeering the urban streets, fly fishing on Alaskan riverbanks, earning a PhD, starting several companies, and prevailing through worlds of challenge makes [him] a different". Now a User Experience Researcher at Google, Real gives us insight on applying the rigor of academic research to the fast-paced iterative world of design research in industry and talks about owning his identity and living true to one's values in life in the face work.

Connect with Real:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/realitycanty/

Links and Things:

The Spook Who Sat By The Door (movie): https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/movies/spook-who-sat-by-the-door.html
Google invests $10 Billions to promote Education in India https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/13/google-makes-education-push-in-india/
Situated Cognition: Origins: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/situated-cognition
Rural Population in India: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.RUR.TOTL.ZS?locations=IN
Mental Models and UX: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/mental-models/
Mythic Quest (series) - Women in Gaming: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8879940/episodes?season=1&ref_=tt_eps_sn_1
Distribution of game developers worldwide from 2014 to 2019, by gender: https://www.statista.com/statistics/453634/game-developer-gender-distribution-worldwide/
Level up on diversity: Three changes to get more women into games: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-09-14-level-up-on-diversity-three-changes-to-get-more-women-into-games
Indians on TV, Master of None (series): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4658458/?ref_=ttep_ep4

About US:
Sunny and Connie are grad students majoring in Human-Computer Interaction and are passionate about designing experiences to empower people around the world.