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    Accelerated Software Testing

    PROJECT

    The United States spends more than $48 billion/year on software testing, and many powerful testing tools have significant usability barriers that limit th...

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    Echo of the Abyss

    PROJECT

    Echo of the Abyss is a Virtual Reality (VR) experience that uses animal guides and immersive environments to cultivate a sense of kinship towards marine l...

  • Soundify assists users in matching sound effects (in bold) and ambients (in italics) to video, and helps dynamically adjust panning and volume by localizing "sound emitters".

    Soundify

    PROJECT

    In the art of video editing, sound is really half the story. Through formative interviews with professional editors (N=10), we found that the manual task ...

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    Jigsaw: Supporting Designers to Prototype Multimodal Applications by Assembling AI Foundation Models

    PROJECT

    Recent advancements in AI foundation models have made it possible for them to be utilized off-the-shelf for creative tasks, including ideating design conc...

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    Wikibench

    PROJECT

    AI tools are increasingly deployed in community contexts. However, datasets used to evaluate AI are typically created by developers and annotators outside...

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    What Makes Digital Support Effective?

    PROJECT

    Online mental health support communities have grown in recent years for providing accessible mental and emotional health support through volunteer counsel...

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    Shaping Online Dialogue

    PROJECT

    Community rules play a key part in enabling or constraining the behaviors of members in online communities. However, little is unknown regarding whether a...

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    Matching for Peer Support

    PROJECT

    Online mental health communities (OMHCs) have emerged in recent years as an effective and accessible way to obtain peer support, filling crucial gaps of t...

  • a full image of a parrot above 8 small squares, each containing a small portion of image. Text reads "Select 4 of the most representative visualizations of the parrot for hints"

    Eye into AI

    PROJECT

    Recent developments in explainable AI (XAI) aim to improve the transparency of black-box models. However, empirically ...

  • We built a visualization dashboard called Rx RiskMap that communicates and explains the results of a model to predict overdose risk across the state of Pennsylvania. The data shown is outdated and depicted for demonstration purposes only.

    Predicting and Visualizing Overdose Risk for Public Health

    PROJECT

    Overdose due to opioid misuse and abuse is currently a critical public health issue in the United States and worldwide. Machine learning (ML) approaches h...

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    Enhance Project

    PROJECT

    In the Enhance Project, learning scientists collaborate with education agencies to improve how states assess their students. Drawing upon the fields of le...

  • LearnSphere

    Learning Analytics and Data Sharing

    PROJECT

    LearnSphere is a community data infrastructure to support learning improvement online. It integrates educational data and analysis repositories to offer ...