Faculty Projects
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Creating Peripheral Displays
People who engage regularly with technology interact with hundreds of visual, auditory, and multimodal displays each day. These displays, which have been ...
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Lente Design Workshop
This project focuses on supporting the wakeup routine of dual-income parents. One of the first pieces we are focusing on is an alarm clock that helps keep...
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IMPACT: Improving and Motivating Physical Activity Through ContexT
A large percentage of the US population is overweight or obese, and a leading cause of this is lack of physical activity. Early fieldwork has shown that u...
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Improving Driving Routes Through Learning Driver Preferences
Most route recommendation systems ignore the context of the driver (e.g. time of day) and the preferences of the driver (e.g. like to avoid highways). Not...
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Infocockpits
Infocockpits: computer interfaces that improve human memory. Humans are adept at remembering information based on its location relative to their body and ...
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Aura: Distraction-Free Ubiquitous Computing
The focus of the research is on automatic configuration of an environment such as a device-rich room at all levels (networks/ devices, software infrastruc...
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interACT
The international center for Advanced Communication Technologies is an international technology research lab. interACT is pioneering research in technolog...
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ADEPT
This project brings together an interdisciplinary team with expertise in computer supported collaborative learning, language and information technologies,...
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Coordinating Attention and Communication
A call during dinner? While one party may value the conversation, the receiver thinks it is an interruption. This project examines the conditions under wh...
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Context Aware Computing
Context is any information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity (person, place, or physical or computational object). A computing s...
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Coordination in Open Source Software Development
Open-source software runs the Internet and challenges commercial software in many areas. Despite this success, it is not clear how the open-source paradig...
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Gestures Project
In face-to-face settings, people use pointing and other gestures to communicate quickly and efficiently with their conversational partners. The aims of th...
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Social Computing Lab
Online communities are the fastest-growing portion of the Internet and provide members with information, social support, and entertainment. While a minori...
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Adapting to disaster
Hurricane Katrina had a profound effect on New Orleans and its music scene. Katrina devastated performance venues, dispersed bands and their audiences, an...
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Rapid Development of Cognitive Models and Tutors
Cognitive Tutors have been successful in raising students’ math test scores in high-school and middle-school classrooms, but their development requires co...
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Project LISTEN’s Reading Tutor
An automated Reading Tutor displays stories on a computer screen, listens to children read aloud, adapts Carnegie Mellon’s Sphinx-II speech recognizer to ...
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Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center
The Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center is leveraging computational theory and cognitive modeling to identify the instructional conditions that cause ro...
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Pathway
The Physics Teaching Web Advisory (Pathway) is creating a proof-of-concept demonstration of a new type of digital library for physics teaching. It brings ...
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PACT
The PACT Center uses cognitive tutor technology to create an integrated classroom and computer lab curriculum that supports students’ understanding of mat...
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Mentored Maintenance: Use of Dialog and Advanced IETMs for Performance Enhancement Systems
This study builds on recent empirical work about user-centered design and effectiveness of high level IETMs (Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals) and...