Computational Creativity
Soundify
PROJECTIn the art of video editing, sound is really half the story. Through formative interviews with professional editors (N=10), we found that the manual task ...
Jigsaw: Supporting Designers to Prototype Multimodal Applications by Assembling AI Foundation Models
PROJECTRecent advancements in AI foundation models have made it possible for them to be utilized off-the-shelf for creative tasks, including ideating design conc...
Yao’s Seed Carrier Shortlisted for Science Breakthrough of the Year Award
NEWSLining Yao, the Cooper-Siegel associate professor in the School of Computer Science's Human-Computer Interaction Institute, and her E-seed research project are among the top 10 finalists f...
Engineered Magic: Wooden Seed Carriers Mimic the Behavior of Self-Burying Seeds
NEWSHow seeds implant themselves in soil can seem magical. Take some varieties of Erodium, whose five-petalled flowers of purple, pink or white look like geraniums....
Studying and designing for human-AI collaborative work in real-world contexts
PROJECTAcross a range of real-world contexts, we are studying how AI is currently being designed and used to augment or transform worker practices. Moving beyond...
ReCompFig
PROJECTFrom creating input devices to rendering tangible information, the field of HCI is interested in using kinematic mechanisms to create human-computer inter...
The Shape of Pasta: HCII Assistant Professor Morphs Matter
NEWSLining Yao came of age in a small village in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Like most families in her town, she didn't have a computer. She didn't even have a television. On t...