Research opportunities for students at the HCII

I am looking for one or more undergraduate summer interns who are interested in doing a project in educational games or personalized online learning, either for pay or for credit. Interaction design and interface programming skill a definite plus, but to a degree the project can be shaped to fit the skills and learning goals of the intern.

I am looking for students to help develop the next generation of apartment hunting site, with information about green everything from projected energy consumption and heating/cooling costs to toxics to walkscore and more. Website building experience of all kinds needed (e.g. sql, design, scripting, etc).

We are looking for a summer intern to assist in the development of an educational game for a middle school mathematics research study. The intern must have a technical software programming background, and preferably experience coding with ActionScript and Flash development.

We all live with big data, whether it’s our web searches, Facebook data, or physical activity. But, we don’t have great tools for understanding this data.

We have been designing a web-based tool to help teachers of children with autism to track behavior and educational performance within the classroom. In addition, the tool needs to support discussion about the data being tracked, along with analysis and visualization. If you’re interested in special education or web-based application design, please contact us.

Come help us develop an Android-based framework for building next-generation mobile user experiences. Leverage sensors on the phone, behavior of individuals, usage of the phones to design applications that adjust to these factors for a more compelling and substantial user experience. Knowledge of Java required. Knowledge of Android a plus.

The use of creative strategies may be a key characteristic that distinguishes expert and novice designers. However, researchers lack a deep understanding about the range of strategies deployed, how they affect creative performance, and how novice designers can be taught to use these strategies.

One in five hospitalizations are complicated by post-discharge events and many patients end up being readmitted. To help healthcare providers and patients avoid or delay readmissions, we propose a holistic investigation of personal health records, starting at the moment of hospital discharge and continuing throughout various touchpoints in a person’s healthcare delivery experience.

The Social Computing Lab’s REU program allows talented undergraduates to spend 10 weeks during the summer in a research laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University, or one of our research partners. The REU program aims to make the Social Computing Lab’s programs more visible to students not traditionally exposed to our fields.

The project is about crowd creativity. We are studying the process by which inventors generate and develop ideas online and ways of making these ideas useful to other inventors.