The “Attitude-behavior” gap exists in online green purchasing. Redesigning e-commerce platforms can bridge the gap and promote sustainability. An effective and user-friendly concept design for showing eco-labels
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Park is an online framework allowing individuals to perform neurological tests whenever and wherever they want. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6vXA_vnPuw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cui0fnR5WTM There are about 900,000 people with Parkinson’s disease (PD)
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Have you ever not understood your doctor but were either too shy, too confused, or just didn’t know what to ask to get better clarification? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QVXZo14pLw Advanced
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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.
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.
Dr. Tanveer is off to Comcast AI Lab to refine the way to engage with our multimedia content.
For contributions to artificial intelligence and computational social science, including fundamental results on the complexity of inference, planning, and media analytics for public health.
Ehsan Hoque receives a $1 million Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (ECASE-ARMY) from the Army Research Office (ARO).
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, 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.
Second-year URCS Ph.D. student Samuel (Sam) Lerman received Honorable Mention in the National Science Foundation’s 2019 Graduate Research Fellowship Program competition.
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”.
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.
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.
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?
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).
Denis Lomakin, an undergrad research assistant in the lab, appeared on the WXXI/NPR Connections “Science Roundtable” along with professors from UR and RIT.
Poster sessions with part of the ROC HCI summer undergraduate Research Assistants took place on Monday, 20 July 2018.
