Computational Modeling and Data Mining
Computational Modeling and Data Mining is one of four thrusts within the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. This thrust is pursuing the scientific goa...
Learning Sciences and Technologies
Metacognition and Motivation
Metacognition and Motivation is one of four thrusts of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. It has the goals of developing a better understanding of...
Learning Sciences and Technologies
Social and Communicative Factors in Learning
Social and Communicative Factors is one of four thrusts within the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. The research investigates how human linguistic i...
Learning Sciences and Technologies
Cognitive Factors: A Thrust Within the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center
Cognitive Factors is one of four thrusts of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. It is aimed at understanding cognitive learning—changes in knowledg...
Learning Sciences and Technologies
LightSIDE
LightSIDE is a resource for applying machine learning technologies to text processing problems....
Carolyn Rosé
SIDE: Summarization Integrated Development Environment
In this project we are developing a configurable summarization environment that uses multi-level analyses of discourse to support a new generation of summ...
Carolyn Rosé
Basilica: Reconfigurable Multi-Party Dialogue Environment
Based on our experiences with designing and engineering multi-party conversational environments such as collaborative learning systems that involve integr...
Carolyn Rosé
CycleTalk: Dialogue Technology for Supporting Simulation Based Learning
In the CycleTalk project, we are developing a new collaborative learning support approach that makes use of tutorial dialogue technology in the context of...
Carolyn Rosé
Supporting Virtual Math Teams with Language Technologies
In collaboration with Gerry Stahl and the Math Forum at Drexel University, this project seeks to develop a technological augmentation to available human s...
Carolyn Rosé
Digital Bridges: On-Line Education Fostering Partnerships for Research and Teaching
The key idea of the Digital Bridges project is to extend existing resources for technology-based education to create a vibrant environment for globalized ...
Carolyn Rosé
Dynamic Support for Computer-Mediated Intercultural Communication
This project seeks to provide a new integration of theories and methods from the fields of CSCW and CSCL that will advance both areas individually and, to...
Carolyn Rosé
ACT-R
The ACT-R project focuses on developing a robust and general cognitive architecture and applying it to the modeling of human interaction with complex dyna...
Learning Sciences and Technologies
Technologies About the Self
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Jodi Forlizzi,
Design Research in HCI
This project investigates the role of Design and Design Thinking in HCI research and practice. On the research side, the work investigates how research th...
Design Research
Scalable Cognitive Modeling Through Compositional Reuse
Cognitive modeling can scale affordably, and be routinely and efficiently applied to large complex tasks, only if it becomes an exercise of composing new ...
Bonnie John
Enabling Technologies
Pebbles
The Pebbles project is exploring how Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), such as the Palm Handheld or a device running the Microsoft Windows CE or Pocket ...
Brad Myers
Enabling Technologies
User-Constructed Workflows
This project develops mixed-initiative interfaces designed to allow administrators to construct their own workflows and train agents to perform mundane da...
John Zimmerman
Design Research
Usability and Software Architecture
The usability analyses or user test data are in; the development team is poised to respond. When the usability problems are presented, someone around the ...
Len Bass
Enabling Technologies
The Product Ecology Theory
The product ecology is a way to understand and design for different social relationships and experiences that people develop with intelligent products....
Design Research
The Hug
The Hug, a soft, huggable robot that uses sensing technology and wireless telephony, was designed to provide social and emotional support for elders who l...
Design Research
Supporting Trust Decisions
People are increasingly being asked to make trust decisions online: should I open this email? Should I click on this link? Should I enter in my informatio...
Natural Programming
The goal of the Natural Programming project is to make computer programming more accessible to novice, professional and end-user programmers. We are inves...
Brad Myers,
Enabling Technologies
DigitalSelf
This project explores product opportunities for scaffolding the social role transition experienced by teens as they shed their high school identities and ...
John Zimmerman
Design Research
Conversation With the Immaterial Material of Software
Designers creatively investigate many possible solution by engaging in reflective conversations with materials. For example, industrial designers sketch w...
Design Research

The SenseChair
The SenseChair provides comfort and support for elders who spend long periods of time seated in the same chair, restoring independence and dignity to the ...
Design Research

Sonic Flashlight
Our objective is to permit in situ visualization of ultrasound images so that direct hand-eye coordination can be employed during invasive procedures. A m...
Roberta Klatzky
Enabling Technologies
Wearable Computers
Wearable Computers seek to merge the user’s information space with their work space. Wearable research at Carnegie Mellon proceeds on several fronts. The ...
Human Assistance
Quality of Life Technology (QoLT)
The Quality of Life Technology (QoLT) Center is a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center (ERC) whose mission is to transform lives in a l...
Human Assistance
Project on Family, Control, and the Smart Home
Dual-income families face constant challenges as they attempt to address the conflicting repsonsibilities of work, school, family, and enrichment activiti...
John Zimmerman,
Human Assistance
MOVE: Maps Optimized for Vehicular Environments
MOVE (Maps Optimized for Vehicular Environments) is an in-car navigation system that provides assistance for drivers who are navigating an unfamiliar rout...
Human Assistance