Faculty Projects

Researchers from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute are working on a system they call Knowledge Accelerator. A system that uses a machine-learning p...

Everyone has some kind of routine. Whether it's how you get ready each morning or how you drive your car, routines are behavior blueprints that help us pu...

This project is developing a decisions support tool that mines medical histories and makes a recommendation on when a person suffering from stage 3 or 4 h...

When it comes to learning math, how much fun you are having is rarely factored into the equation. That isn't to say that game designers have not tried to ...

Personal information management and privacy is a major and increasing challenge. New internet architectures will make people and their interactions more t...

We have built an emotion recognition system based on prosodic features (i.e. intensity, pitch, formant frequencies of sounds) combined with short-term per...

VRAs are applications of wearable devices which track patient home exercises in order to quantify exercise metrics regarding compliance, performance, and ...

This Virtual Coach evaluates and offers corrections and feedback for rehabilitation of stroke survivors. The Virtual Coach is composed of a tablet for cli...

The goal of Seating Coach (SC) is to facilitate power wheelchair users to utilize auxiliary seating functions for health management while preventing poten...

Our contention is that multi-user health kiosks, designed with input from older adults and situated in convenient community locations, offer a way to bols...

Our Connection Machines project investigates nonverbal and verbal behaviors of two partners in a conversation setting in the context of rapport. We have c...

The AdaptErrEx project, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, has developed materials to support learning of decimals through erroneous examples. Th...

The Project on Virtual Possessions investigates how people make sense of and construct value with their ever-increasing collections of virtual things. The...

Live-action role-playing (larp) combines face-to-face improvisation with game rules to create collaborative, playful narrative experiences for the partici...

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...