Research opportunities for students at the HCII

Orders of magnitude more people read Wikipedia articles than contribute to them. Wikipedia imposes technical and cultural barriers that make it difficult for newcomers to contribute.

LiveHoods is a project that looks at analyzing what people do in a city, at a large scale. We have over 18 million check-ins from foursquare and are using clustering algorithms to help us understand neighborhoods. You can see our current web site at livehoods.org.

A surprising number of Android and iPhone apps have behaviors close to spyware. We have two separate projects here.

One is to combine automated scanning techniques with human crowdsourcing, to understand the behavior of Android apps and summarize the privacy and security behaviors of those apps.

We’re looking for people with skills in Android programming to help here.

The basic idea behind Chelada is to always show useful information when you look at your mobile phone, based on time, location, weather, and activity.

Cross-generational health information can lead families to recognize and diagnose early health problems, to provide emotional support for suffering family members, and to make crucial lifestyle changes before genetic health issues arise.

Designers and engineers explore examples to learn key domain principles, to get inspiration, and to understand what worked in the past. However, we lack a foundational understanding of how prior examples should be structured and presented to designers throughout a design process. To test specific theories about design examples, we are conducting a series of controlled experiments.

Help to build the next generation of online interfaces for people to consume and share information. 70 billion hours a year are spent on people making sense of information for themselves (e.g., what digital camera to buy?) but all of that time is wasted since no one else benefits from it.

We are looking for summer interns to work on next-generation crowdsourcing and collaboration technologies in the Social Computing Lab in Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute.

We are looking for a skilled android programmer to create an android application. At this point, we have an iPhone app and are looking for someone to make an identical one for the android platform. The app has two main features beside basic ones including:

• create a custom interface from dataset in MySQL
• save a user-input data and photo taken to MySQL over wifi as well as in a local database

We are looking for a skilled web programmer to create a website. The website has two main features besides basic ones including:

• an interactive drag&drop interface (using jQuery UI) for a user to create a mock-up iPhone UI
• retrieve/display/modify/save MySQL data in various visualizations