Faculty Projects

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...

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...