Faculty Projects

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...

The United States spends more than $48 billion/year on software testing, and many powerful testing tools have significant usability barriers that limit th...

In the Enhance Project, learning scientists collaborate with education agencies to improve how states assess their students. Drawing upon the fields of le...

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. The PLUS Traini...

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...

Diminished reality (DR) refers to the concept of removing content from a user's visual environment. While its implementation is becoming feasible, it is s...

Based on our experiences with designing and engineering multi-party conversational environments such as collaborative learning systems that involve integr...

This project aims to better support student learning by adapting computer-based tutoring to individual learning phases and real-time capabilities. The sp...

The Chronic Web project explores how online resources affect the online and offline experience of managing and coping with chronic illness....