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We developed a visual analytics system, VitaLITy, to promote serendipitous discovery of academic papers wherein users may “stumble upon” relevant literature, when other search approaches may fail. VitaLITy (1) utilizes transformer language models to help users find semantically similar papers given a list of seed paper(s) or a working abstract, (2) visualizes the embedding space in an interactive 2-D scatterplot, and (3) summarizes meta information about the paper corpus (e.g., keywords, co-authors, citation counts, and publication year).

This project is a virtual reality experience centered on Article 25 of the Declaration of Human Rights: "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing, and medical care..." The experience sheds light on the problem of homelessness in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The user will experience a narrative story while virtually serving characters that are representative of Atlanta's homeless population. The experience also includes information about current statistics and ways to volunteer to a

The Quixote system is an artificial intelligence technique for teaching robots and artificial virtual agents how to do things by telling them stories. Stories present a natural means of communicating complicated, tacit procedural knowledge. Quixote thus reads in natural language stories and learns to emulate the behaviors of the characters in the stories. The long term goal of the project is to make AI programming accessible to non-programmers and non-AI experts. We have also shown that stories can be an effective means of demonstrating ethical behavior to robots and AIs.