Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Investigating the use of computers to support individual use; and investigating the use of computers and networked technologies to support small-group and human-to-human communication and its impact on collaboration

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Advancing STEM Online Learning by Augmenting Accessibility with Interactive Companionship

Time frame
2021-2024
Investigator
Yun Huang
Total funding to date
$526,006.00
Funding agency
National Science Foundation

Full title: Collaborative Research: Advancing STEM Online Learning by Augmenting Accessibility with Interactive Companionship

Videos are a popular option for online learning, and captions are essential for accessibility. Two types of captions exist: typical closed captions and explanatory captions. Closed captions…

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Augmenting Health Self-Regulation across the Cancer Survivorship Continuum by Digital Phenotyping

Time frame
2022-Present
Investigator
Jessie Chin
Total funding to date
$30,000.00
Funding agency
Campus Research Board

Breast cancer (BC) is a chronic illness. BC survivors often deal with the lifelong needs of self-management, such as controlling the symptoms, taking diet or nutrition plans, or adopting a physical activity program across their cancer survivorship continuum. Our team is eager to develop a novel technique to predict the intentions of lifestyle behavior by tracking ones' information behavior and…

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CAREER: Inclusive Privacy: Effective Privacy Management for People with Visual Impairments

Time frame
2019-Present
Investigator
Yang Wang
Total funding to date
$255,203.00
Funding agency
National Science Foundation

Privacy or security mechanisms are usually designed with the generic population in mind. As such, they often fall short of supporting many under-studied or marginalized sub-populations, such as children, older adults, people with disabilities, activists, journalists, victims of crimes or domestic violence, and people from non-western or developing countries. The goal of this project is to…

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Crowd-Assisted Human-AI Teaming with Explanations

Time frame
2024-Present
Investigator
Dong Wang
Total funding to date
$599,999.00
Funding agency
National Science Foundation

This project investigates the problem of information integrity, that is, identifying faulty or ungrounded information online. It focuses on a specific domain, that of information produced during the COVID-19 pandemic, and processes both text and image data. While significant efforts in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have addressed information integrity in this type of…

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Development of a Chatbot for Delivering Long-Term Motivational Interviewing for Improving Exercise Adherence in Hemodialysis Patients

Time frame
2022-Present
Investigator
Jessie Chin
Total funding to date
$75,000.00
Funding agency
Jump ARCHES

There are approximately 600,000 individuals in the U.S. with kidney failure undergoing maintenance hemodialysis (HD) therapy. HD patients have several co-morbidities, including muscle wasting, cardiovascular disease, and bone disorders, with very high medical costs, averaging ~ $93,000/patient/year. Lifestyle interventions such as exercise and nutritional modification are often prescribed to…

medical chatbot

ECR Methods DCL: Advancing Computational Grounded Theory for Audiovisual Data from STEM Classrooms

Time frame
2019-Present
Investigator
Nigel Bosch
Total funding to date
$1,313,855.00
Funding agency
National Science Foundation

Video data are complex. They involve visual, acoustic, spatial, and temporal features that can be reduced in several ways. To date, analysis of video data of STEM classrooms has not been able to leverage computational power to take advantage of their richness. However, recent advancements in data science, coupled with existing speech analytics methods, make it possible to computationally…

STEM classroom

Exploring Algorithmic Fairness and Potential Bias in K-12 Mathematics Adaptive Learning

Time frame
2020-Present
Investigator
Nigel Bosch
Total funding to date
$987,015.00
Funding agency
National Science Foundation

Students in middle school and high school often use adaptive learning software as part of their math education experience. Adaptive learning software works by automatically measuring how much students have learned about the topic, as well as their learning process and experiences, and then adjusting the instruction accordingly. This project will investigate potential ways in which adaptive…

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I-Corps: Beacon-Enabled Smart Location-Based Service

Time frame
2019-Present
Investigator
Yun Huang
Total funding to date
$30,524.00
Funding agency
National Science Foundation

This I-Corps project will identify the commercial potential for using Bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacon technology to provide new and low-cost location-based services. A BLE beacon actively broadcasts Bluetooth signals, which can be received by nearby Bluetooth-enabled smartphones. Thus, mobile applications can leverage the beacons that are installed at different locations to detect people's…

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