Faculty
PrivacyGrade
PROJECTMany people are surprised to learn how much data smartphone apps are collecting about them. PrivacyGrade is a website we are creating that presents the re...
Predicting User Mobility Patterns
PROJECTBy modeling the temporal and spatial movements of individuals, we can predict how long they will stay in their current location and where they will transi...
Playtesting: Education and Practice
PROJECTPlaytesting helps game designers evaluate not whether their games are useful and usable, but whether they are playful and playable. Strong playtest skills...
Phenom
PROJECTOur goals with Phenom are to (a) integrate various sources of data about us (e.g. call logs, contact lists, location data), and (b) offer an underlying pr...
Personal Informatics for Intercultural Competence
PROJECTWorking and living internationally can be a rewarding but difficult experience. This project investigates how people gain intercultural competence while d...
Online Feedback for Design
PROJECTThis project explores novel opportunities for how innovators can obtain and make sense of diverse feedback from potential stakeholders or customers. We ha...
Multisensory Interactions/Sensory Augmentation Systems
PROJECTWe employ theories related to executive control of our working memory (e.g., cognitive load theory) and differentiation of resource capacity according to ...
Modeling the Impact of System Response Delays on User State
PROJECTIn the early days of computing, there was a great deal of research into how system response times impacted user experiences. However, the text-based syste...
Lowering Barriers to Access and Enhancing Play in MOOCs
PROJECTIf Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) are the democratizing educational innovation that many claim them to be, then why do the largest proportion of MOOC...
LASAD
PROJECTThe LASAD project is focused on helping students learn to argue, debate and think critically by working collaboratively on a webpage that allows creation ...
Interpreting Behavior With Crowds
PROJECTSocial science research often relies on coding of video or other data for subjective events. This can be very time consuming and labor intensive for a sin...
Internet Support Groups
PROJECTPeople facing serious health threats increasingly use the Internet to obtain information and support. Internet support groups (ISGs), online communities w...