Faculty
Memory Support for People With Episodic Memory Impairment
PROJECTPeople with episodic memory impairment (EMI) lack an awareness of the actions, events and experiences of their everyday lives. This often results in confu...
Intelligiblity of Context-Aware Applications
PROJECTApplications that behave proactively on a user’s behalf, particularly those that react to implicit user context, need to be intelligible to end users, exp...
Leveraging Human Knowledge to Improve Learning
PROJECTWe are interested in understanding what a machine learning system could ask a user to improve its performance and when it is appropriate to ask the user. ...
Wearable Computers
PROJECTWearable Computers seek to merge the user’s information space with their work space. Wearable research at Carnegie Mellon proceeds on several fronts. The ...
Quality of Life Technology (QoLT)
PROJECTThe Quality of Life Technology (QoLT) Center is a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center (ERC) whose mission is to transform lives in a l...
Project on Family, Control, and the Smart Home
PROJECTDual-income families face constant challenges as they attempt to address the conflicting repsonsibilities of work, school, family, and enrichment activiti...
MOVE: Maps Optimized for Vehicular Environments
PROJECTMOVE (Maps Optimized for Vehicular Environments) is an in-car navigation system that provides assistance for drivers who are navigating an unfamiliar rout...
Manipulation in a Virtual Haptic Environment Based on Magnetic Levitation
PROJECTMagnetic levitation is a substantially new approach which promises a qualitative leap in improvement of haptic (sense of touch) computer interactions. A u...
Social Ties in the Internet Age
PROJECTProject description: Proximity generally increases the likelihood of personal and work relationships, and geographic mobility disrupts them. Is this true ...
Assistment Project
PROJECTThe ASSISTMENTs project provides students with individualized instructional ASSISTance while performing assessMENT. The research goal is to investigate wh...
Creating Peripheral Displays
PROJECTPeople who engage regularly with technology interact with hundreds of visual, auditory, and multimodal displays each day. These displays, which have been ...
Automatic Sign Detection, Recognition, and Translation
PROJECTSigns are everywhere in our lives. They make our lives easier when we understand them, but they can pose problems or even danger when we do not. Automatic...