Faculty Projects

There are numerous complex tasks in everyday life, from cooking to medical self-care, that involve a series of atomic steps. Properly executing these step...

Echo of the Abyss is a Virtual Reality (VR) experience that uses animal guides and immersive environments to cultivate a sense of kinship towards marine l...

Recent advancements in AI foundation models have made it possible for them to be utilized off-the-shelf for creative tasks, including ideating design conc...

AI tools are increasingly deployed in community contexts. However, datasets used to evaluate AI are typically created by developers and annotators outside...

Online mental health support communities have grown in recent years for providing accessible mental and emotional health support through volunteer counsel...

Community rules play a key part in enabling or constraining the behaviors of members in online communities. However, little is unknown regarding whether a...

In 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 ...

Recent developments in explainable AI (XAI) aim to improve the transparency of black-box models. However, empirically ...

Overdose due to opioid misuse and abuse is currently a critical public health issue in the United States and worldwide. Machine learning (ML) approaches h...

Humans easily miss events in their surroundings due to limited short-term memory and field of view. This happens, for example, while watching an instructo...

Data Navigator is a JavaScript library that allows for navigation of data structures. Data Navigator makes png, svg, canvas, and even webgl graphics acces...

Smartphone apps collect and send a great deal of data about us to third-party websites, but what are they collecting and where are they sending it?...

Online mental health communities (OMHCs) have emerged in recent years as an effective and accessible way to obtain peer support, filling crucial gaps of t...

Chartability is a set of heuristics (testable questions) for ensuring that data visualizations, systems, and interfaces are accessible. Chartability is or...

Current solutions for providing navigation instructions to users who are walking are mostly limited to 2D maps on smartphones and voice-based instructions...

From creating input devices to rendering tangible information, the field of HCI is interested in using kinematic mechanisms to create human-computer inter...

We present an optimization-based approach that automatically adapts Mixed Reality (MR) interfaces to different physical environments. Current MR layouts, ...

The Polyphonic project explores collecting real-world data by piggybacking on game streaming communities such as Twitch, which capture over a trillion min...

How can games help address the challenge of climate change? Through research and design, we are exploring ways that games can motivate collective action, ...

Bloomwood Stories: Block Party is a visual novel that aims to increase players' health self-efficacy and connect them to health resources at their local l...