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Remote research often provides flawed insights into the lifestyles and workplaces of the interviewees. How might research tools evolve to get better contextual insights from users without losing the inherent advantages of remote research?

Digital tools exist for creating practically every type of artistic, creative, or communicative digital artifact, including pictures, music, video, and computer animation. This project explores a combined AI-HCI approach to participatory intelligent agents that help amateurs create digital moving image media, such as machinima.

Equipping students with disabilities with the right accommodation helps them experience greater independence and self-esteem, which set them up for success. However, at present, many barriers inhibit these students from obtaining the right accommodation. This project seeks to explore these barriers, and to build a platform that helps students with disabilities overcome them, by providing them easy access to assistive technology and a chance to interact with peers and experts, thus building a supportive community around them.