Faculty Projects

College professors frequently use role-playing in class as a way to engage their students and enhance the learning experience. However, role-playing often...

This project is focused on tools, techniques and applications that support the opportunistic grouping of devices and/or users. This includes support for c...

Online production communities are becoming increasingly important, because they are creating the software that drives the Internet, generating valuable sc...

This project investigates how social computing systems can optimize real-time creative collaboration, whether in teams or with crowds. We are actively dev...

Our research in sensors and machine learning techniques seeks to improve HCI experience by developing objective and near real-time methods for recognizing...

We address quality of life issues for seniors who have difficulty interacting with virtual information spaces. We lead projects to improve safe driving th...

In this project, we aim to address the systematically-reduced standardized test scores of African American students compared to their Euro-American peers ...

Many people are surprised to learn how much data smartphone apps are collecting about them. PrivacyGrade is a website we are creating that presents the re...

By modeling the temporal and spatial movements of individuals, we can predict how long they will stay in their current location and where they will transi...

Playtesting helps game designers evaluate not whether their games are useful and usable, but whether they are playful and playable. Strong playtest skills...

Our goals with Phenom are to (a) integrate various sources of data about us (e.g. call logs, contact lists, location data), and (b) offer an underlying pr...

Working and living internationally can be a rewarding but difficult experience. This project investigates how people gain intercultural competence while d...

This project explores novel opportunities for how innovators can obtain and make sense of diverse feedback from potential stakeholders or customers. We ha...

We employ theories related to executive control of our working memory (e.g., cognitive load theory) and differentiation of resource capacity according to ...

In the early days of computing, there was a great deal of research into how system response times impacted user experiences. However, the text-based syste...

If Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) are the democratizing educational innovation that many claim them to be, then why do the largest proportion of MOOC...

The LASAD project is focused on helping students learn to argue, debate and think critically by working collaboratively on a webpage that allows creation ...

Social science research often relies on coding of video or other data for subjective events. This can be very time consuming and labor intensive for a sin...

People facing serious health threats increasingly use the Internet to obtain information and support. Internet support groups (ISGs), online communities w...

Our objective is to permit in situ visualization of medical images so that direct hand-eye coordination can be employed during invasive procedures. A meth...

Intelligent information systems and advanced driver assistance systems help drivers maintain a high level of situational awareness during vehicle operatio...

Can we use games to reduce opioid use and abuse after a work-related injury? This exploratory project looks at how games can intervene in pain-management ...

A rich element of cooperative games are mechanics that communicate. Unlike automated awareness cues and synchronous verbal communication, cooperative comm...

Educational technology has the potential to transform teaching and learning across the world. However, the design of globalized technologies frequently do...

The EcoDigs project is exploring multi-stakeholder interactions around tenant/landlord decision making. Our research will explore the use of crowdsourcing...

This project addresses depression, a mood disorder that impacts millions of American's each year and is one of the leading causes of disability. Depressio...

Many web sites have surprising and sometimes nefarious clauses in their terms of use and privacy policies. The problem is that no one really reads these k...

In the near future, we believe that all authentication needs can be managed by a single smart device, both for web services and for Internet of Things. Th...

This project explores how social computing system can enable groups of people to collaborative plan for future events. The goal is to combine preferences ...

Synthesis is the practice of integrating, organizing, filtering, and evaluating information as part of a design process. Limitations on time, resources, a...