Faculty Projects

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...

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...