Strong presence at ACII and Ubicomp 2019
Researchers from the ROC-HCI lab attended two back-to-back conferences in the first half of September: ACII’19, held in Cambridge, and Ubicomp’19, in London.
Hoque moderates ‘workforce of the future’ panel at Microsoft
Rizzo (USC), Iqbal (MSR), Pizzo (Stanford), and Kleinberg (Cornell) weigh in on the role of AI in developing the future workforce at the Microsoft Faculty Summit.
Sen and Haut win 1st place in the IARPA CASE challenge
Final year Ph.D. student, Taylan Sen, collaborates with incoming Ph.D. student, Kurtis Haut, and wins the first place at the CASE challenge.
Poster presentations by the summer NSF REU and Xerox fellows
The range of work involved quantifying the movements of Parkinson’s symptoms to using AR/VR to help individuals learn sign language to better understand the impact of automated interview training and the subtle uses of emoji.
Summer retreat through an improv class
As part of a team-building exercise, we performed a two-hour improv session conducted by The Focus Theater. It was a lot of fun to get out of our comfort zone, try fun exercises, and share a lot of laughter.
Congrats to Dr. Iftekhar Tanveer
Dr. Tanveer is off to Comcast AI Lab to refine the way to engage with our multimedia content.
Henry Kautz receives ACM AAAI Allen Newell Award
For contributions to artificial intelligence and computational social science, including fundamental results on the complexity of inference, planning, and media analytics for public health.
Hoque receives $1M Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (ECASE)
Ehsan Hoque receives a $1 million Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (ECASE-ARMY) from the Army Research Office (ARO).
Being Human in the Digital Age
From Alexa to Uber, music to medicine, and drones to driverless cars, technology plays a huge part of our daily lives. Rochester researchers are tapping into the potential—and ethics—of it all and how virtual reality, artificial intelligence, data science, and more can transform everything from education to health care to entertainment.
Jesse Wang named a finalist in the ACP Innovation Challenge
Jesse Wang, an MD/PhD (Translational Biomedical Science) student advised by URCS Professor Henry Kautz, earned a spot as one of four finalists in the American College of Physicians’ Innovation Challenge based on his proposal to create a virtual assistant to facilitate patient-physician communication by automating eRecord maintenance using speech recognition and NLP.
Sam Lerman receives Honorable Mention in NSF GRFP Competition
Second-year URCS Ph.D. student Samuel (Sam) Lerman received Honorable Mention in the National Science Foundation’s 2019 Graduate Research Fellowship Program competition.
Zhen Bai Receives Sykes Engineering Faculty Award
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Zhen Bai who has been awarded the Wadsworth C. Sykes Engineering Faculty Award to support the development of a new course “AR/VR Interaction Design”.
Sharfuz Sifat and Tolga Aktas get into the e5 program
Congratulations to Sharfuz Z Sifat ’20 and Tolga Aktas ’20 for being accepted into the e5 (formerly Kauffman Entrepreneurial Year) program to launch a project and engage in an experiential pursuit, economic or social in nature.
ROC HCI Group is featured on CCC’s “Great Innovative Ideas” series
Research done by the Rochester Human-Computer Interaction (ROC HCI) was highlighted by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) of the Computing Research Association (CRA) in their “Great Innovative Ideas” series for December 2018.
Creativity in Dynamic Social Networks
Creative ideas are generated by individuals but creativity rarely emerges from a social vacuum. What are the characteristics of social systems that maximize creativity? Can we proactively intervene in social systems to elevate the creative outcomes of its members?
ROC HCI to be part of Parkinson’s research center at URMC
The University of Rochester has been selected as a Morris K. Udall Center of Excellence in Parkinson’s Disease Research by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).