Human Computer Interaction (HCI)

Konstan paper selected as one of Most Influential Articles in 2020
The research on computational advertising by CS&E Professor Joseph Konstan was honored by the American Academy of Advertising Journals.

GroupLens students succeed in UIST 2021 SIC Challenge
Congrats to CS&E Ph.D. students Irene Ye Yuan and Georgie Qiao Jin for receiving the “Best Toio Award” for their remote communication concept called MoMoBot.

Paper on rethinking mental health interventions recognized at CSCW
The paper by co-lead authors C. Estelle Smith (Ph.D. 2020) and William Lane (M.S. 2020) earned an Honorable Mention award at CSCW 2021.

GroupLens research shines at CSCW 2021
Six papers and posters from CS&E faculty and students were shared during the virtual conference, with one being awarded an honorable mention.

Tune in: Radical AI podcast with CS&E's Stevie Chancellor
The assistant professor discussed AI, mental health, and the benefits and challenges of machine learning systems that are used to predict mental illness.

GroupLens research receives honorable mention at CHI 2021
The work by Ph.D. student Irene Ye Yuan and associate professor Lana Yarosh looked at tabletop games in the age of remote collaboration.

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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.

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

EMP: Edge-assisted Multi-vehicle Perception [conference paper]
Posted January 31, 2022
27th Annual International Conference On Mobile Computing And Networking (MobiCom 2021)

MC-DGCNN: A Novel DNN Architecture for Multi-Category Point Set Classification [preprint]
Posted December 22, 2021
Majid Farhadloo (Ph.D. student), Carl Molnar (M.S. student), Gaoxiang Luo (undergraduate research assistant), Yan Li (Ph.D. student), Shashi Shekhar (professor), Rachel L Maus, Svetomir N Markovic, Raymond Moore, Alexey Leontovich

Identification and characterization of a fungal-selective glutaminyl tRNA synthetase inhibitor with potent activity against Candida albicans [journal]
Posted December 17, 2021
Alice Xue, Amanda Veri, Xiang Zhang, Ci Fu, Emma Lash, Kali Iyer, Nicole Revie, Nicole Robbins, Charles Boone, Chad Myers (professor), Leah Cowen
Access Microbiology

About a Proof Pearl: A Purported Solution to a POPLMARK Challenge Problem that is Not One [preprint]
Posted December 17, 2021
Gopalan Nadathur (professor)

Perceptions of Visual and Multimodal Symbolic Mediated Social Touch: Role of Technology Modality, Relationship, and Task Emotional Salience [journal]
Posted December 17, 2021
Svetlana Yarosh (associate professor), Xizi Wang, Yuan Yao
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

A Label Correction Algorithm Using Prior Information for Automatic and Accurate Geospatial Object Recognition [conference paper]
Posted December 15, 2021
Weiwei Duan, Yao-Yi Chiang (associate professor), Stefan Leyk, Johannes H. Uhl, Craig A. Knoblock
IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData)

Guided Generative Models using Weak Supervision for Detecting Object Spatial Arrangement in Overhead Images [conference paper]
Posted December 15, 2021
Weiwei Duan, Yao-Yi Chiang (associate professor), Stefan Leyk, Johannes H. Uhl, Craig A. Knoblock
IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData)

AggNet: Cost-Aware Aggregation Networks for Geo-distributed Streaming Analytics [conference paper]
Posted December 14, 2021
Dhruv Kumar (Ph.D. student), Sohaib Ahmad, Abhishek Chandra (professor), Ramesh Sitaraman
6th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing

Early Stopping for Deep Image Prior [preprint]
Posted December 11, 2021
Hengkang Wang (Ph.D. student), Taihui Li (Ph.D. student), Zhong Zhuang (Ph.D. student), Tiancong Chen (Ph.D. student), Hengyue Liang, Ju Sun (assistant professor)

TempoQR: Temporal Question Reasoning over Knowledge Graphs [preprint]
Posted December 10, 2021
Costas Mavromatis (Ph.D. student), Prasanna Lakkur Subramanyam, Vassilis N Ioannidis, Soji Adeshina, Phillip R Howard, Tetiana Grinberg, Nagib Hakim, George Karypis (professor)
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