Faculty Projects
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LASAD
The LASAD project is focused on helping students learn to argue, debate and think critically by working collaboratively on a webpage that allo...
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Interpreting Behavior With Crowds
Social science research often relies on coding of video or other data for subjective events. This can be very time consuming and labor intensi...
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Internet Support Groups
People facing serious health threats increasingly use the Internet to obtain information and support. Internet support groups (ISGs), online c...
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In Situ Imaging
Our objective is to permit in situ visualization of medical images so that direct hand-eye coordination can be employed during invasive proced...
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Human-Centered Cyber-Physical Systems in Cars
Intelligent information systems and advanced driver assistance systems help drivers maintain a high level of situational awareness during vehi...
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Games for Pain
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...
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Game Mechanics for Joint Focus
A rich element of cooperative games are mechanics that communicate. Unlike automated awareness cues and synchronous verbal communication, coop...
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ETAC: Educational Technology Across Cultures
Educational technology has the potential to transform teaching and learning across the world. However, the design of globalized technologies f...
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EcoDigs
The EcoDigs project is exploring multi-stakeholder interactions around tenant/landlord decision making. Our research will explore the use of c...
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Detecting Depression
This project addresses depression, a mood disorder that impacts millions of American's each year and is one of the leading causes of disabilit...
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CrowdVerify
Many web sites have surprising and sometimes nefarious clauses in their terms of use and privacy policies. The problem is that no one really r...
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Context-Aware Scalable Authentication
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 o...
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Collective Planning
This project explores how social computing system can enable groups of people to collaborative plan for future events. The goal is to combine ...
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Collaborative Synthesis
Synthesis is the practice of integrating, organizing, filtering, and evaluating information as part of a design process. Limitations on time, ...
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Cognitive Assistants and Modeling Human Routines
We are developing a set of algorithms and visualization tools to better understand and model human behavior. With these models, we are buildin...
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Chelada
The goal of Chelada is to let others create a new class of mobile applications supporting proactive information. Based on one's context (such ...
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Lumitrack
Movement is one of the fundamental ways we interact with the world around us. We can configure our limbs and bodies into innumerable poses, lo...
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Combining Small Groups and Large Scale Collaboration
This research investigates the way that teams and communities collaborate online, with two aims: to develop new technologies to enhance collab...
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VizWiz
VizWiz answers questions that people who are blind or visually impaired have about the things around them. Users take a photo, ask a question,...
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Tiramisu
The Tiramisu project investigates how social media can provide new ways for citizens to take ownership of and responsibility for their public ...