Faculty

People facing serious health threats increasingly use the Internet to obtain information and support. Internet support groups (ISGs), online communities w...

Our objective is to permit in situ visualization of medical images so that direct hand-eye coordination can be employed during invasive procedures. A meth...

Intelligent information systems and advanced driver assistance systems help drivers maintain a high level of situational awareness during vehicle operatio...

Can we use games to reduce opioid use and abuse after a work-related injury? This exploratory project looks at how games can intervene in pain-management ...

A rich element of cooperative games are mechanics that communicate. Unlike automated awareness cues and synchronous verbal communication, cooperative comm...

Educational technology has the potential to transform teaching and learning across the world. However, the design of globalized technologies frequently do...

The EcoDigs project is exploring multi-stakeholder interactions around tenant/landlord decision making. Our research will explore the use of crowdsourcing...

This project addresses depression, a mood disorder that impacts millions of American's each year and is one of the leading causes of disability. Depressio...

This project is developing a decisions support tool that mines medical histories and makes a recommendation on when a person suffering from stage 3 or 4 h...

When it comes to learning math, how much fun you are having is rarely factored into the equation. That isn't to say that game designers have not tried to ...

Many web sites have surprising and sometimes nefarious clauses in their terms of use and privacy policies. The problem is that no one really reads these k...

In the near future, we believe that all authentication needs can be managed by a single smart device, both for web services and for Internet of Things. Th...

This project explores how social computing system can enable groups of people to collaborative plan for future events. The goal is to combine preferences ...

Synthesis is the practice of integrating, organizing, filtering, and evaluating information as part of a design process. Limitations on time, resources, a...

We are developing a set of algorithms and visualization tools to better understand and model human behavior. With these models, we are building a wide var...

The goal of Chelada is to let others create a new class of mobile applications supporting proactive information. Based on one's context (such as time, loc...

Based on our experiences with designing and engineering multi-party conversational environments such as collaborative learning systems that involve integr...

This project aims to better support student learning by adapting computer-based tutoring to individual learning phases and real-time capabilities. The sp...

Movement is one of the fundamental ways we interact with the world around us. We can configure our limbs and bodies into innumerable poses, locomote aroun...

Pediluma is a shoe accessory designed to encourage opportunistic physical activity. It features a light that brightens the more the wearer walks and slowl...

This research investigates the way that teams and communities collaborate online, with two aims: to develop new technologies to enhance collaboration and ...

VizWiz answers questions that people who are blind or visually impaired have about the things around them. Users take a photo, ask a question, and receive...

The Tiramisu project investigates how social media can provide new ways for citizens to take ownership of and responsibility for their public services. In...

The Chronic Web project explores how online resources affect the online and offline experience of managing and coping with chronic illness....

This project investigates the value of product attachment theory, which describes how people develop relationships with and learn to love their possession...

Cell phone applications that enable children in the villages and slums in the developing world to acquire language and literacy in immersive, game-like en...

This collaboration of researchers in the HCII and Biological Sciences is developing a Cognitive Tutor for problem solving in genetics. Genetics problem so...

In collaboration with Gerry Stahl and the Math Forum at Drexel University, this project seeks to develop a technological augmentation to available human s...

The purpose of this project is to develop an automated tutorial intervention that is intended to improve learning in a pre-algebra curriculum. In particul...

SimStudent is a synthetic student that learns cognitive skills from worked-out examples (i.e., demonstrated solutions) and through tutored problem-solving...