Faculty

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...