Studying and designing for human-AI collaborative work in real-world contexts
Across 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...
Ken Holstein, Anna Kawakami, Frederic Gmeiner, Luke Guerdan, Haiyi Zhu, Nikolas Martelaro, Steven Wu
Applied Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Computational Creativity, Design Research, Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics (FATE), Future of Work, Human-Centered AI, Learning Sciences and Technologies, Societal Problems
Increasing Design Innovation
Design innovation often follows technical advances. For example, when Philips invented the cassette recorder in 1962, designers innovated this technology ...
Design Research
IoT Coffee Table
Communicates what the environment is sensing Today people increasingly find themselves in spaces that invisibly sense them. The increasing use of cameras...
John Zimmerman
Design Research
ClassInSight
While much of education research is focused on student performance, this research turns the focus to the development of the teacher....
Virtual Possessions
The Project on Virtual Possessions investigates how people make sense of and construct value with their ever-increasing collections of virtual things. The...
Design Research
Online Feedback for Design
This project explores novel opportunities for how innovators can obtain and make sense of diverse feedback from potential stakeholders or customers. We ha...
Rachel Jue,
Design Research
Pediluma
Pediluma is a shoe accessory designed to encourage opportunistic physical activity. It features a light that brightens the more the wearer walks and slowl...
Designing for the Self
This project investigates the value of product attachment theory, which describes how people develop relationships with and learn to love their possession...
John Zimmerman
Design Research
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
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
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
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