Best Paper Nominations in ACII and ACM MM
Congratulations to Ph.D. student Kurtis Haut, lead author on both papers.
Influencing human behavior toward eco-friendly choices
Redesigning E-commerce platform to include explainable environmental impact cues can facilitate sustainable purchasing behavior
Knowledge Graph for Climate Change and Environmental Issues
KnowUREnvironment is a knowledge graph for climate change and related environmental issues, extracted from the scientific literature.
NADBenchmarks – curating Benchmark Datasets for Machine Learning Tasks related to Natural Disasters
To aid ML and climate researchers, we develop a web platform – NADBenchmarks – where researchers can search for benchmark datasets for natural disasters.
700K of grant from US Army to study self-organizing social network
We will work on redesigning and maximizing human productivity through self-organizing social networks.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke highlights our work on Parkinson’s
In this video, patient representatives, leadership, and staff from the University of Rochester Udall Center describe their goals, work, impact, and how YOU can get involved.
James Spann wins best paper award at ACM SUI
In collaboration with Vivian Shen and Chris Harrison from CMU, Spann wins the best paper award at the ACM Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2021 conference.
A new way to prepare doctors for difficult conversations
ROC HCI researchers have developed SOPHIE, a virtual ‘patient’ that trains doctors in explaining end-of-life options.
ROC HCI 2021 Summer Party
We wished the graduating students all the best while welcomed the new set of students.
Interpersonal Eye Gaze from Conventional Video
We introduce the Interpersonal-Calibrating Eye-gaze Encoder (ICE), which automatically extracts interpersonal gaze from video recordings without specialized hardware and without prior knowledge of participant locations.
Baten featured by ResearchGate as inspiring research story!
Raiyan Abdul Baten, a network science and human-computer interaction (HCI) researcher, is exploring these questions by meeting humans where they are: on social media.
Inclusive computing roubtable
As part of our ongoing inclusive computing initiative, we are organizing a roundtable with UR alum currently working at Google.
Sangwu gets inducted in Phi Beta Kappa honor society
Congratulations to Sangwu Lee, a junior student in CS, for being among the 18 junior students to be inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.
Neurogical care available anytime, anywhere
The University of Rochester features our ongoing work on enabling telemedicine for individuals with Parkinson’s disease.
Zhang and Tenesaca win CRA outstanding researcher award
Boyu Zhang (finalist) and Ashely Tenesaca (honorable mention) are recognized by the CRA outstanding undergraduate researcher award.
Can social networks help us be more creative?
Participants overwhelmingly chose to follow people who had the most creative ideas, but that creativity suffers when too many people follow the same sources of inspiration
ExploreCSR grant to improve representation and diversity
Hoque and Bai have received an exploreCSR grant to establish “Inclusive Computing Program” to engage UR undergraduate students from underrepresented groups with diverse computing research, career pathways, and practical skill development.
Inclusive Computing Research Program
Are you an undergrad from underrepresented groups and are interested in computing?
PhD student, Wasifur Rahman, in collaboration with BUET, wins UbiComp Distinguished Paper Award
Imagine being able to diagnose PTSD using a portable wearable neuro-headset and validating it with a standard PTSD questionnaire.
The National Academies feature our research
Ehsan Hoque, a National Academy of Medicine Emerging Leader, harnesses nonverbal cues to improve health and human connection.
Automated Diagnosis and Screening of PTSD
Analyzing the case of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, we propose a two-way diagnosis of PTSD as well as develop a novel, low-cost, and remote method to screen the potential cases of PTSD based on free-hand sketches.
ROC HCI invited to G20 Dialogue on Trustworthy AI
Hoque speaks at the panel on Trustworthy AI in pandemic response organized by the G20 The Digital Economy Task Force (DETF).
Role of AI in reshaping the field of negotiation
Hoque, Pentland and Gratch reflect on how the projected progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI) could impact the way negotiations take place in the future. The conference was organized by Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School.
Congrats to the class of 2020!
Shoutout to all the members of the ROC HCI family who graduated in 2020. We are very proud of your achievements and your growth as an individual over the years!
Hoque named an ’emerging leader’ by the National Academy of Medicine
Ehsan Hoque is one of 10 new emerging leaders selected by the National Academy of Medicine to collaborate with the organization on “sparking transformative change to improve health care for all.”
Tran and Wen are inducted into Phi Beta Kappa honor society
Graduating senior Minh Tran and Melissa Wen are among the 120 seniors to be inducted into the Phi Beta Honor Society.
Graudating senior, Wen, receives NSF GRFP honorable mention
Melissa Wen, graduating senior in Computer Science and Brain and Cognitive Science, receives an honorable mention in NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Program (GRFP).
Gerstner won 3rd place at MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
Zhan, Gerstner, & Polimeni won 3rd place at the research paper competition at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.
Hoque recieves a Google Faculty Award
A generous gift from Google to continue our ongoing work on Parkinson’s research.