Faculty Projects

Many web sites have surprising and sometimes nefarious clauses in their terms of use and privacy policies. The problem is that no one really reads these k...

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 of Things. Th...

This project explores how social computing system can enable groups of people to collaborative plan for future events. The goal is to combine preferences ...

Synthesis is the practice of integrating, organizing, filtering, and evaluating information as part of a design process. Limitations on time, resources, a...

We are developing a set of algorithms and visualization tools to better understand and model human behavior. With these models, we are building a wide var...

The goal of Chelada is to let others create a new class of mobile applications supporting proactive information. Based on one's context (such as time, loc...

Movement is one of the fundamental ways we interact with the world around us. We can configure our limbs and bodies into innumerable poses, locomote aroun...

This research investigates the way that teams and communities collaborate online, with two aims: to develop new technologies to enhance collaboration and ...

VizWiz answers questions that people who are blind or visually impaired have about the things around them. Users take a photo, ask a question, and receive...

The Tiramisu project investigates how social media can provide new ways for citizens to take ownership of and responsibility for their public services. In...

Pediluma is a shoe accessory designed to encourage opportunistic physical activity. It features a light that brightens the more the wearer walks and slowl...

LearnSphere is a community data infrastructure to support learning improvement online. It integrates educational data and analysis repositories to offer ...

NoRILLA is a patented mixed-reality educational system bridging physical and virtual worlds to improve STEM learning. Research at Carnegie Mellon Universi...

The MEME Project’s goal is to produce better educational outcomes by increasing motivation, learning, and self-regulation....

The PLUS project is improving the learning outcomes for marginalized students by "squaring" the power of both human and computer tutoring. Our Personalize...

Skeema is a new way to manage your tabs that helps to declutter your browser and your mind. ...

Across a range of real-world contexts, we are studying how AI is currently being designed and used to augment or transform worker practices. Moving beyond...

The gig economy is characterized by short-term contract work performed by independent workers who are paid in return for the "gigs" they perform. Example ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly used to assist humans in making high-stakes decisions, such as online information curation, resume s...

This project will create a general method for value-sensitive algorithm design and develop tools and techniques to help incorporate the tacit values of st...