Supporting Virtual Math Teams with Language Technologies
In collaboration with Gerry Stahl and the Math Forum at Drexel University, this project seeks to develop a technological augmentation to available human s...
Carolyn Rosé
Digital Bridges: On-Line Education Fostering Partnerships for Research and Teaching
The key idea of the Digital Bridges project is to extend existing resources for technology-based education to create a vibrant environment for globalized ...
Carolyn Rosé
Dynamic Support for Computer-Mediated Intercultural Communication
This project seeks to provide a new integration of theories and methods from the fields of CSCW and CSCL that will advance both areas individually and, to...
Carolyn Rosé
ACT-R
The ACT-R project focuses on developing a robust and general cognitive architecture and applying it to the modeling of human interaction with complex dyna...
Learning Sciences and Technologies
Technologies About the Self
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Design Research in HCI
This project investigates the role of Design and Design Thinking in HCI research and practice. On the research side, the work investigates how research th...
Design Research
Supporting Trust Decisions
People are increasingly being asked to make trust decisions online: should I open this email? Should I click on this link? Should I enter in my informatio...
Conversation With the Immaterial Material of Software
Designers creatively investigate many possible solution by engaging in reflective conversations with materials. For example, industrial designers sketch w...
Design Research
Pebbles
The Pebbles project is exploring how Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), such as the Palm Handheld or a device running the Microsoft Windows CE or Pocket ...
Brad Myers
Enabling Technologies
Scalable Cognitive Modeling Through Compositional Reuse
Cognitive modeling can scale affordably, and be routinely and efficiently applied to large complex tasks, only if it becomes an exercise of composing new ...
Bonnie John
Enabling Technologies
The Hug
The Hug, a soft, huggable robot that uses sensing technology and wireless telephony, was designed to provide social and emotional support for elders who l...
Design Research

Sonic Flashlight
Our objective is to permit in situ visualization of ultrasound images so that direct hand-eye coordination can be employed during invasive procedures. A m...
Roberta Klatzky
Enabling Technologies
The Product Ecology Theory
The product ecology is a way to understand and design for different social relationships and experiences that people develop with intelligent products....
Design Research

The SenseChair
The SenseChair provides comfort and support for elders who spend long periods of time seated in the same chair, restoring independence and dignity to the ...
Design Research
Usability and Software Architecture
The usability analyses or user test data are in; the development team is poised to respond. When the usability problems are presented, someone around the ...
Len Bass
Enabling Technologies
Natural Programming
The goal of the Natural Programming project is to make computer programming more accessible to novice, professional and end-user programmers. We are inves...
Brad Myers,
Enabling Technologies
User-Constructed Workflows
This project develops mixed-initiative interfaces designed to allow administrators to construct their own workflows and train agents to perform mundane da...
John Zimmerman
Design Research
DigitalSelf
This project explores product opportunities for scaffolding the social role transition experienced by teens as they shed their high school identities and ...
John Zimmerman
Design Research
Automating the Workplace via Mixed-initiative Computing
This project investigates how the power of machine learning technology can be put in the hands of end-users, allowing them to selectively automate the mun...
John Zimmerman
Human Assistance
Manipulation in a Virtual Haptic Environment Based on Magnetic Levitation
Magnetic levitation is a substantially new approach which promises a qualitative leap in improvement of haptic (sense of touch) computer interactions. A u...
Roberta Klatzky
Human Assistance
Memory Support for People With Episodic Memory Impairment
People with episodic memory impairment (EMI) lack an awareness of the actions, events and experiences of their everyday lives. This often results in confu...
Anind Dey
Human Assistance
Project on Family, Control, and the Smart Home
Dual-income families face constant challenges as they attempt to address the conflicting repsonsibilities of work, school, family, and enrichment activiti...
Human Assistance
Quality of Life Technology (QoLT)
The Quality of Life Technology (QoLT) Center is a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center (ERC) whose mission is to transform lives in a l...
Human Assistance

Expanding the 3D Interaction Lexicon
Much of the research on 3D interaction, particularly for immersive virtual environments, focuses on emulating the real world. Emulating the real world is ...
Enabling Technologies
Informedia Digital Video Library
Informedia is applying automated video and audio indexing and video portal development in support of oral history collections, based on pioneering work re...
Enabling Technologies
MOVE: Maps Optimized for Vehicular Environments
MOVE (Maps Optimized for Vehicular Environments) is an in-car navigation system that provides assistance for drivers who are navigating an unfamiliar rout...
Human Assistance
Intelligiblity of Context-Aware Applications
Applications that behave proactively on a user’s behalf, particularly those that react to implicit user context, need to be intelligible to end users, exp...
Anind Dey
Enabling Technologies
Building Virtual Worlds
Building Virtual Worlds is not only taught to encourage working with other disciplines, but also is an experience with tools and process. Students use the...
Enabling Technologies

End-User Programming of Context-Aware Systems
Context-aware systems adapt to users’ context of use. We are investigating novel interaction techniques to support end-users in building their own context...
Anind Dey
Enabling Technologies
Leveraging Human Knowledge to Improve Learning
We are interested in understanding what a machine learning system could ask a user to improve its performance and when it is appropriate to ask the user. ...
Anind Dey
Enabling Technologies