Faculty
User Preference for Navigation Instructions in Mixed Reality
PROJECTCurrent solutions for providing navigation instructions to users who are walking are mostly limited to 2D maps on smartphones and voice-based instructions...
Towards Understanding Diminished Reality
PROJECTDiminished reality (DR) refers to the concept of removing content from a user's visual environment. While its implementation is becoming feasible, it is s...
SemanticAdapt
PROJECTWe present an optimization-based approach that automatically adapts Mixed Reality (MR) interfaces to different physical environments. Current MR layouts, ...
ReCompFig
PROJECTFrom creating input devices to rendering tangible information, the field of HCI is interested in using kinematic mechanisms to create human-computer inter...
Polyphonic
PROJECTThe Polyphonic project explores collecting real-world data by piggybacking on game streaming communities such as Twitch, which capture over a trillion min...
Games and Climate
PROJECTHow 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
PROJECTBloomwood 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...
Understanding Mental Health with Mobile Sensing
PROJECTUnderstanding 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...
Increasing Design Innovation
PROJECTDesign innovation often follows technical advances. For example, when Philips invented the cassette recorder in 1962, designers innovated this technology ...
IoT Coffee Table
PROJECTCommunicates what the environment is sensing Today people increasingly find themselves in spaces that invisibly sense them. The increasing use of cameras...
SpokeSense
PROJECTA Wearable Fitness Tracker for Wheelchair Athletes Information provided by traditional fitness trackers is not always relevant to athletes of all abiliti...
VizLens
PROJECTVizLens: A Robust and Interactive Screen Reader for Interfaces in the Real World The world is full of physical interfaces that are inaccessible to blind ...