
M.S. student receives Outstanding Poster recognition at CSCW 2020
The poster presented research by Ruyuan Wan into the impact of likes and comments on CaringBridge user retention.

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Professor Joseph Konstan, an expert in human-computer interaction, studied the impact of interruptions on the performance and emotions of office workers.

New professor brings focus on human-centered machine learning
Dr. Stevie Chancellor will further CS&E’s expertise in social computing when she joins the department in Fall 2021.

Yarosh named McKnight Presidential Fellow
This recognition is given to outstanding faculty who have recently achieved tenure and promotion to associate professor.

Department research shows ways to support cancer patients
GroupLens researchers partnered with CaringBridge to identify useful ways to provide support during cancer journeys.
Research in this area focuses on developing more effective methods for humans to interact with and use computer technology. HCI draws from computer science, sociology, and psychology to create better interfaces, to improve human-human interactions, and to tailor computer technology to the needs of an individual or organization. The department's HCI group specializes in interfaces that help groups of people work together more effectively. Research efforts include developing algorithms and interfaces for handheld devices to aid coordination in space and time, and in applying social science theories from economics and social psychology to the development of community Web sites. The group also specializes in recommender systems with a long history in the development and analysis of algorithms, interfaces, and user applications.
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Latest research projects, publications, and talks

Conversational Agent for Daily Living Assessment Coaching [conference paper]
Posted January 7, 2021
Aditya Gaydhani (M.S. student), Raymond Finzel, Sheena Dufresne, Maria Gini (professor), Serguei Pakhomov
AI4Function Workshop, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)

A National Research Agenda for Intelligent Infrastructure: 2021 Update [preprint]
Posted January 1, 2021
Daniel Lopresti, Shashi Shekhar (professor)

More Trees or Larger Trees: Parallelizing Monte Carlo Tree Search [journal]
Posted December 30, 2020
Erik S Steinmetz (Ph.D. 2016), Maria Gini (professor)
IEEE Transactions on Games

The structure of behavioral data [preprint]
Posted December 23, 2020
Aurélien Defossez, Morteza Ansarinia, Brice Clocher, Emmanuel Schmück, Paul Schrater (associate professor), Pedro Cardoso-Leite

Robotics Enabling the Workforce [preprint]
Posted December 16, 2020
Henrik Christensen, Maria Gini (professor), Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Holly Yanco

Distant-Supervised Slot-Filling for E-Commerce Queries [preprint]
Posted December 15, 2020
Saurav Manchanda (Ph.D. 2020), Mohit Sharma (Ph.D. 2017), George Karypis (professor)

Comparing Generic and Community-Situated Crowdsourcing for Data Validation in the Context of Recovery from Substance Use Disorders [preprint]
Posted December 13, 2020
Sabirat Rubya (Ph.D. student), Joseph Numainville (undergraduate research assistant), Svetlana Yarosh (associate professor)

RegulaTOR: A Powerful Website Fingerprinting Defense [preprint]
Posted December 11, 2020
James K Holland (Ph.D. student), Nicholas Hopper (professor)

Artificial Intelligence & Cooperation [preprint]
Posted December 10, 2020
Elisa Bertino, Finale Doshi-Velez, Maria Gini (professor), Daniel Lopresti, David Parkes

A Generative Approach for Detection-driven Underwater Image Enhancement [preprint]
Posted December 10, 2020
Chelsey Edge (Ph.D. student), Md Jahidul Islam (Ph.D. student), Christopher Morse (undergraduate research assistant), Junaed Sattar (assistant professor)
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