Research opportunities for students at the HCII

There are various initiatives for colleges and universities to lower their environmental impacts, and various spreadsheet and web-based tools. However what is lacking are tools to help campuses figure out how they are doing in their sustainability efforts.

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.

Description: TechBridgeWorld (http://www.TechBridgeWorld.org) is seeking an undergraduate or graduate intern/work-study during Summer 2011 to assist with our research group’s NavPal project. NavPal, a project funded in part by Google, aims to develop a customizable navigation tool on the Google Android phone for people with disabilities.

People often deal with people online whom they have never met before. For example, people often interact with strangers when they buy on e-bay, edit in Wikipedia and play in pick-up groups in World of Warcraft

We’re looking for student programmers interested in working on developing an exciting new online idea management / brainstorming application. In particular, we need people excited about interaction design process and innovation, and comfortable working with PhP and MySQL databases (other dynamic web development skills [e.g., ajax, ruby, java, flash] would also be a big plus).

The CUPS lab is looking for student programmers with experience in the Ruby, Perl, or Python scripting languages to work 10–20 hours a week on multiple projects in our lab. The ideal candidate should have strong web programming skills, preferably in Ruby, Ruby on Rails, HTML, and Javascript. Knowledge in security and privacy is desirable but not required.

The Human Computer Interaction Graduate Program at Iowa State University hosts a summer Undergraduate Research Experience, sponsored by the National Science Foundation. This is a ten week internship where students take short courses in HCI and work in interdisciplinary teams on research projects. Housing and meals are provided, as well as a $4500 stipend.

Our project, within the Robotics Institute, is focused on quantifying and understanding user trust in robots when trying to complete a task. The long term goal is to estimate the user’s level of trust in real time so the robot will be able to adjust its interaction accordingly.

The Ubicomp Group in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute is looking for an undergraduate or master student with simple circuit building skills that can help build sensors for the home that will help older adults keep track of their abilities to carry out tasks around their home.

We are looking for one to two undergraduate research programmers to assist in developing a citizen science web site. Interested students should have strong programming skills (particularly scripting in js, PHP, python or perl) and knowledge of SQL. Interaction design and interface development skills are also a plus.