Faculty Projects

Humans easily miss events in their surroundings due to limited short-term memory and field of view. This happens, for example, while watching an instructo...

Data Navigator is a JavaScript library that allows for navigation of data structures. Data Navigator makes png, svg, canvas, and even webgl graphics acces...

Smartphone apps collect and send a great deal of data about us to third-party websites, but what are they collecting and where are they sending it?...

Chartability is a set of heuristics (testable questions) for ensuring that data visualizations, systems, and interfaces are accessible. Chartability is or...

Current solutions for providing navigation instructions to users who are walking are mostly limited to 2D maps on smartphones and voice-based instructions...

From creating input devices to rendering tangible information, the field of HCI is interested in using kinematic mechanisms to create human-computer inter...

We present an optimization-based approach that automatically adapts Mixed Reality (MR) interfaces to different physical environments. Current MR layouts, ...

The Polyphonic project explores collecting real-world data by piggybacking on game streaming communities such as Twitch, which capture over a trillion min...

How can games help address the challenge of climate change? Through research and design, we are exploring ways that games can motivate collective action, ...

Bloomwood Stories: Block Party is a visual novel that aims to increase players' health self-efficacy and connect them to health resources at their local l...

Our research into the human factors of cybersecurity focuses on people as social actors whose security behaviors are influenced by their relationships, co...

Understanding how our family and friends affect our mental health People are social beings in nature and our friends and family play a crucial part in ou...

Design innovation often follows technical advances. For example, when Philips invented the cassette recorder in 1962, designers innovated this technology ...

Communicates what the environment is sensing Today people increasingly find themselves in spaces that invisibly sense them. The increasing use of cameras...

A Wearable Fitness Tracker for Wheelchair Athletes Information provided by traditional fitness trackers is not always relevant to athletes of all abiliti...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have used an inexpensive 3-D printer to produce flat plastic items that, when heated, fold themselves into prede...

While smartwatches are convenient, there is a limit to their functionality due to their small interfaces. Enter LumiWatch. ...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute and Disney Research found that they could make walls "smart" at relativel...

While much of education research is focused on student performance, this research turns the focus to the development of the teacher....

VizLens: A Robust and Interactive Screen Reader for Interfaces in the Real World The world is full of physical interfaces that are inaccessible to blind ...