Research Areas

Human-AI, Human-Robot, and Human-Agent Interaction

We explore the relationship between technology and people. This research includes topics like augmented reality, human and artificial intelligence collaborations, and focuses on real-world applications in areas like education, health, and sustainability.

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ISP Director Peter Brusilovsky to Speak as a Keynote for 36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media

Brusilovsky’s talk, titled “Human-AI Collaboration in Adaptive Information Access: From Adaptive Hypermedia to Recommender Systems,” will review work exploring ideas of human-AI collaboration in adaptive information access systems and discuss challenges, prospects, and lessons learned in this research.

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Dr. Jacob Biehl Is Building Systems That Reshape Space

For Dr. Jacob Biehl, technical rigor and the usability needs of the people operating a system are not separate considerations. They're two organizing principles to how he approaches his research.

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Jacob Biehl, Associate Professor

Jacob’s research interests are at the intersection of systems and human computer interaction (HCI). Most recently, his work has centered on designing, deploying, and evaluating IoT technologies that address important issues in workflow and work practice.

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Peter Brusilovsky, Professor

Dr. Brusilovsky's research interests include Adaptive Web systems, Social Web, user modeling, and human-computer interaction.

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Raquel Coelho, Assistant Professor

Dr. Coelho's research - grounded in learning sciences principles and human-centered frameworks - is focused on theorizing about, supporting learning with, and learning about emerging technologies

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Na Du, Assistant Professor

Dr. Du's research interests include human factors in smart city domains, human-robot interaction, human-centered computing and design.

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Rosta Farzan, Professor

In her research, Dr. Farzan seeks to understand, design, and implement socio-technical systems that empower individuals and groups to contribute to knowledge production and community building.

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Alexandros Labrinidis, Professor

Dr. Labrinidis' research focuses on user-centric data management for scalable network-centric applications, including web-databases, data stream management systems, sensor networks, and scientific data management (with an emphasis on big data). 

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Michael Lewis, Professor

Dr. Lewis' research focuses on human interaction with intelligent automation. He has studied visualization- based control interfaces, human-agent teamwork, and most recently human-robot interaction.

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Yu-Ru Lin, Professor

Dr. Lin's research interests include human and social dynamics; computational approaches for mining and visualizing large-scale, time-varying, heterogeneous, multi-relational, and semi-structured data.

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Diane Litman, Professor

Dr. Litman’s current research focuses on enhancing the effectiveness of educational technology through the use of spoken and natural language processing techniques such as argument mining, summarization, and dialogue systems.

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Erin Walker, Professor

Dr. Walker's research uses interdisciplinary methods to improve the design and implementation of educational technology, and then to understand when and why it is effective.

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