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[Potential HCI Research Opportunities] [Ongoing Research Projects] Faces of Tommorrow I am working with Dr. Janet Murray (LCC) and other students on a CD-ROM called "Faces of Tomorrow." It is interactive software designed to motivate high school girls to continue their math and science courses and aspire to be engineers. The CD-ROM includes interview footage of Georgia Tech engineering professors and an interactive game. I am conducting a pilot survey and focus groups this semester to assess the usability of and satisfaction with the software. In the future, I plan to conduct evaluations with high school-aged students. Student URL: http://php.iupui.edu/~jnbrown TGarden The TGarden is a responsive media space collaboratively built by the TGarden consortium of experts in the domains of performance, visual and fabric art, wearable computing, realtime media synthesis and media choreography. It is designed for people (TGarden players) to play in informal and improvisatory social settings. Student email: seri@cc.gatech.edu Kimura Augmented Office Project Student email: amandal@cc.gatech.edu Development of a visualization system for visually encoding data generated by software analysis and testing tools. The goal of the project is to develop a visualization system that will display and facilitate browsing of information obtained by analyzing and testing software systems using various software testing tools developed by the Aristotle Research Group under Dr.Harrold. There is a visualization system called Tarantula developed by some members of the group. I have done some work on it to get an idea of the kind of data generated and the requirements for the new system. Student email: preeti@cc.gatech.edu Automated Assistance for Assessing the Development of Children With Autism Researchers at Walden videotape the children with autism to assess their development, set learning goals, and report their progress to their parents. I hope, through observation of the school and the assessment process, and through interviews with staff and parents, to determine if computing technologies can be used to assist in the assessment process and yield more data. If the project appears to be feasible, I plan to create a prototype in Macromedia Director. This prototype would serve as a guide for the deployment and evaluation of a fully functioning system. Student email: drwhite@cc.gatech.edu TGarden TGarden is an investigation of how people make sense of and navigate in rich and dynamically evolving media spaces. In this project, users are outfitted with costumes that have embedded sensors and move around freely in a space that both monitors the occupants as well as reacts to their actions and gestures. TGarden is a combination of costumes outfitted with sensors, video tracking, realtime sound and video processing, and gesture tracking to study how people can improvise meaningful gestures to control continuously varying fields of video and sound. [http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/people/sha.xinwei/topologicalmedia/] I am researching ways to evaluate responsive media play spaces and the wearability of body-based interfaces. I helped deploy the lab testbed version of TG2001. I will also explore designers' interfaces to the media choreography state engine. Student email: gte396p@prism.gatech.edu Learning
in the Computer Clubhouse Network Dr. Amy Bruckman and I are studying learning in informal environments. Ethnographic-style methods such as participant observation are used to generate field notes during weekly visits to the Computer Clubhouse (an after-school technology learning drop-in center) in the Scitrek Museum. Field notes capture the physical environment and demographics of the Clubhouse at the time of a visit and are used to analyze interactions between kids and the environment. I am currently analyzing how HTML code is understood by kids in the Clubhouse and how peers use each other's code. Student URL:
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~millner Color on the Web Pantone suggests particular color combinations to elicit specific emotions in product packaging and websites. The primary goal of this research is to experimentally test the efficacy of these color combinations on the web in creating the desired psychological responses. The secondary goal is to investigate how particular color schemes differ in their effectiveness across web genres. Student email: nbabiarz@cc.gatech.edu The Cultural Context
of User Interface Design Cultural Cues and
the World Wide Web Multiagent Telerobotics:
Matching Systems to Tasks Age-Related Automatic
Teller Machine (ATM) Design and Training Age-Related Differences
in Navigating the World Wide Web Informal Awareness
and Privacy Issues in Shared Media Spaces Design for Learning Intuitive and Effective
3D Navigation MASTERMIND: A User Interface Generation Tool This area of research is referred to as "model-based user interfaces" where models contain representations of user interfaces. A designer specifies the features of an interface, including its dialog, presentation, and application interface, and a program is automatically generated that implements that interface. MASTERMIND is a collaborative project between USC/Information Science Institute (ISI) and the Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Sponsor: DARPA. Interaction Styles
For Computer-Based Tutorial Systems Communication Assessment
Tool for the Global Classroom Project Students are developing a data gathering and information visualization tool that facilitates examination of online communications in order to isolate and compare cross cultural interaction patterns. The goal of this communication assessment tool is to allow researchers to visually review the content of online class transcripts between Russian and American students in ways that cannot be achieved while dealing with massive amounts of raw text. Student email:
jcivjan@hotmail.com, gte415w@prism.gatech.edu,
streamingquill@lycos.com Does shopping with
PDA's make sense? This project looks at the implementation of PDA technology within the design space of grocery shopping. The tasks involved with grocery shopping are numerous and highly detailed. While some of these tasks are physical and "in the world", many of the tasks are performed "in the head"- unobservable mental decisions that drive the physical tasks. Through our research, we have found similar methods by which consumers perform these tasks. In our investigations, we have begun to look at these methods- the common tasks among consumers, the decisions behind them, and the points of information exchange between the retail store and the consumer. Student email: gte871w@prism.gatech.edu,
gte859w@prism.gatech.edu Aware Chair The Aware Chair Project employs a power wheelchair as a mobile platform for context-aware computing which integrates a communication and environmental control system. A very unique aspect of the Aware Chair is that it will be controlled neurally, directly from the user's brain signals, by using a noninvasive (scalp electrode) EEG and the standard BCI2000 system. The Aware Chair project is intended to facilitate communication and environmental control for people with severe physical disabilities by detecting and recording significant aspects of the user's environment, such as who is in the room, what time of day it is, and history of interaction with conversational partners. Algorithms are used to narrow the range of selection possibilities in an intelligent manner to present the user with the most appropriate choices for conducting a conversation or controlling the environment (such as lights, television, or radio). For the communication system, we are incorporating word prediction strategies, conversation prediction strategies and contextual information in order to enhance communication speed. For the environmental control system, we are researching and developing neurally controlled interfaces to existing commercial environmental control technologies such as infrared controllers and X10. It is currently an ongoing project, under Dr. Moore's guidance, at Georgia State University's Brain-lab. Student emails: lmhunt@bellsouth.net, lori@cc.gatech.edu, kcarroll@cc.gatech.edu Design for Supporting
Learning Needs of first-year students in Biomedical Engineering
Ph.D. Program
Student email: alisa@cc.gatech.edu Paperless Office
Task Analysis for Tomorrow’s Organizations POTATO – Paperless Office Task Analysis for Tomorrow’s Organizations - will be a completed Task Analysis detailing events in an environment in which work is done on computing devices. While there will probably always be some level of note taking and paper use in corporate America, office computing is becoming ubiquitous. A delineation of the incidents involved in such will assist organizations in knowing what to expect when changing to computing for accomplishing work. Student e-mail: rcbarbas@yahoo.com Front-end analysis,
design, prototyping, and usability evaluation of a car navigation
system. The goal of the project is to perform a human factors and user analysis that will discuss issues that drivers have with navigating. Next, the results will be used in the designing and prototyping of a new navigation system. Finally, usability evaluation will be conducted in order to gauge the effectiveness of the system. Student email: kuvopolis@yahoo.com A Virtual Environment
for Pain and Anxiety Distraction Children experience pain and anxiety when undergoing various medical procedures for the treatment of cancer. This environment is intended to help ease the minds of children who are undergoing cancer treatment by putting them in another world. This will be done through an interactive game environment that will draw their attention away from the pain and discomfort experienced during cancer treatment. The goal of this environment is to reduce the pain and mental anxiety associated with childhood cancer treatments. • Multi-modal interfaces including speech
recognition so that children whose hands are not free can still
use the virtual environment. Student email: catzan@cc.gatech.edu
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