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).
Welcoming Zhen Bai
Zhen Bai, our newest faculty member to co-lead ROC HCI.
ROC HCI undergrad, Denis Lokakin, appears at NPR
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 ROC HCI summer undergraduate RAs
Poster sessions with part of the ROC HCI summer undergraduate Research Assistants took place on Monday, 20 July 2018.
ROC HCI Summer party 2018
Yearly summer party of the lab to celebrate our hard work with some of our collaborators.
Henry Kautz to direct intelligent systems division for NSF
Henry Kautz, the founding director of the Goergen Institute for Data Science at the University of Rochester, will direct the National Science Foundation (NSF) division that supports artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, and data science.
Dailymail.co.uk: “Can YOU spot the liar?”
Billions of dollars and years of study have been poured into research trying to discover if someone is lying or not.
Vivian Li helps develop a voice-enabled mobile app that works with smart home assistants
Vivian Li ’18 lives off campus and cooks all of her own food in order to save money. There’s one drawback. “I sometimes leave food in the fridge and—‘oh!’—two weeks later, it’s fuzzy,” she says.
Ashely Tenesaca ’20 wins Davis Projects for Peace
Tenesaca, undergraduate research assistant in the ROC HCI lab, will use the grant to create a water supply system in Zimbabwe for a project titled “Water for Peace: Solving Mukwerera Conflict through Provision of Sustainable Water Supply.”
Hoque receives NSF CAREER Award
Award to study team dynamics, exchange of respectful behavior and productivity.
Epstein, in collaboration with ROC HCI, wins prestigious American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professorship
Ronald M. Epstein, M.D., professor of Family Medicine, Psychiatry, Oncology to continue his studies of doctor-patient communication using AI.
Honing Speaking Skills Online
Can people improve their oratory skills by interacting with peers online? If yes, how can we enhance the skill development process?