Cloud computing changes the way we practice public speaking
People often rank public speaking as the number one fear that they face. New cloud-based technology from researchers at the University of Rochester lets speakers polish and practice at home in front of their computer camera, while the analysis provides instant feedback about improvement.
Good publicity helped draw attention to grant-worthy project
Ehsan Hoque had just defended his PhD dissertation at MIT in 2013 when he returned to his desk and found a voice mail from DARPA, the federal Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Its back to the future day.
UofR homepage presents some of our research to highlight this day.
Dancing with Computers
In the field of human-computer interaction, computer science meets human behavior.
First set of ROC HCI PhD grauates
Congrats to the first round of Ph.D. graduates (advised by Jeff Bigham) from ROC HCI. Walter Lasecki will be joining the CSE dept. of University of Michigan, Erin Brady will be joining the School of Informatics and Computing at IUPUI, and Yu Zhong will be joining the Google Accessibility team.
ROC HCI Summer party 2015
ROC HCI summer gathering at Ehsan’s house to celebrate the accomplishments in Spring of 2015 and to a productive summer.
Smart glasses app helps tame the fear of public speaking
Public speaking, for many, can make palms sweat and hearts race. Now, researchers from the Human-Computer Interaction group at the University of Rochester have developed a new real-time feedback system using Google’s smart glasses, to help guide your performance as you speak in front of an audience.
What If Job Interviews Were Automated?
The ritual of the interview is nerve-wracking for interviewees and laborious for interviewers. But what if the process of selecting the right candidate for a job were automated? Heads up—the future of job interviews might just involve computerized analysis of your performance.
ROC HCI Summer party 2014
Part of the ROC HCI research team celebrating the sun and the long-anticipated arrival of summer at Ehsan’s house.
Researcher Wins Best Paper Award for Automated Interview Coach
University of Rochester researcher M. Ehsan Hoque has won a best paper award at the 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2013) for a computer system designed to help people practice social interactions.