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This project brings together an interdisciplinary team with expertise in computer supported collaborative learning, language and information technologies,...

The focus of the research is on automatic configuration of an environment such as a device-rich room at all levels (networks/ devices, software infrastruc...

Context is any information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity (person, place, or physical or computational object). A computing s...

In face-to-face settings, people use pointing and other gestures to communicate quickly and efficiently with their conversational partners. The aims of th...

Infocockpits: computer interfaces that improve human memory. Humans are adept at remembering information based on its location relative to their body and ...

The international center for Advanced Communication Technologies is an international technology research lab. interACT is pioneering research in technolog...

A call during dinner? While one party may value the conversation, the receiver thinks it is an interruption. This project examines the conditions under wh...

Online communities are the fastest-growing portion of the Internet and provide members with information, social support, and entertainment. While a minori...

Hurricane Katrina had a profound effect on New Orleans and its music scene. Katrina devastated performance venues, dispersed bands and their audiences, an...

Cognitive Tutors have been successful in raising students’ math test scores in high-school and middle-school classrooms, but their development requires co...

An automated Reading Tutor displays stories on a computer screen, listens to children read aloud, adapts Carnegie Mellon’s Sphinx-II speech recognizer to ...

The Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center is leveraging computational theory and cognitive modeling to identify the instructional conditions that cause ro...