Research opportunities for students at the HCII

Under the auspices of the Human Development Lab and Video Games Research Lab at Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute, here are some brief descriptions of mini research projects that undergraduate researchers or Masters-level students can work on when getting their feet wet with research for their first time.

The Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools (CTAT - see http://ctat.pact.cs.cmu.edu) are a central PSLC enabling technology. Learning sciences researchers and tutor developers use these tools to build Intelligent Tutoring Systems, software that simulates some of the one-on-one coaching of a human tutor.

Epidemiologists in public county health departments use a variety of information to make decisions on how to react to a potential health outbreak: vaccinate, make public announcements, do nothing,

Interested in building applications for the Android or iPhone platform? My group is interested in building a wide variety of applications, including novel location-based services, applications that let us explore the impact of quality of service on quality of experience, and applications that use a variety of sensor input (both from the phone and external sensors).

We have positions for undergrads this summer (seniors can work 3 months past graduation). We will be running experiments, analyzing data from interviews with scientists who worked in teams, and creating an online survey for scientists.

If you are interested, please contact me with a description of your interests and background, start and end dates, and please attach your resume.

We will have behavioral, design, and technical positions this summer for research in human-robot interaction.

As the graphical interface programmer, you will implement innovative interface designs using leading-edge technology for our flagship product.

Interested people should apply to Vincent Sethiwan: vincent [dot] sethiwan [at] gmail [dot] com

There is a stipend associated with the project.

If you are interested in using technology to help the environment, then this is the project for you.

Opportunity to be a part of a team that is building a site designed to organize and aggregate all legislation and information on legislation at the federal, state, and local levels. We are currently building a prototype to focus on Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, and the State of Pennsylvania.

Looking for an undergraduate research assistant to help conduct experimental studies on ad-hoc online communities. Studies will be run online, and research assistants may be involved in design of materials, programming of the studies, collection of data, and/or interviewing participants. Knowledge of PHP, MediaWiki software, or Mechanical Turk is especially valuable.