Faculty Projects

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This project investigates the value of product attachment theory, which describes how people develop relationships with and learn to love thei...

Cell phone applications that enable children in the villages and slums in the developing world to acquire language and literacy in immersive, ...

This collaboration of researchers in the HCII and Biological Sciences is developing a Cognitive Tutor for problem solving in genetics. Genetic...

In collaboration with Gerry Stahl and the Math Forum at Drexel University, this project seeks to develop a technological augmentation to avail...

The purpose of this project is to develop an automated tutorial intervention that is intended to improve learning in a pre-algebra curriculum....

SimStudent is a synthetic student that learns cognitive skills from worked-out examples (i.e., demonstrated solutions) and through tutored pro...

Computational Modeling and Data Mining is one of four thrusts within the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. This thrust is pursuing the sc...

Metacognition and Motivation is one of four thrusts of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. It has the goals of developing a better unde...

Social and Communicative Factors is one of four thrusts within the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. The research investigates how human ...

Cognitive Factors is one of four thrusts of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. It is aimed at understanding cognitive learning—changes...

LightSIDE is a resource for applying machine learning technologies to text processing problems....

In this project we are developing a configurable summarization environment that uses multi-level analyses of discourse to support a new genera...

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