We design an LLM pipeline that can tailor information to user's demography and personality to combat misinformation. Despite various efforts to tackle online misinformation, people
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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=egRRXvzcxLU 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
READ MOREA $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation will provide additional impetus to a University of Rochester initiative applying augmented and virtual reality in health, education, product design, remote communication, entertainment, and other fields.
ROC HCI (Hoque) to collaborate with colleagues from Georgia Tech (Arriaga, Ploetz) and Emory Veterans (Sherill, Rothbaum) to develop automated predictions to deliver better therapeutic treatment and individualized feedback, and patients with better understanding of the progress.
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.
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.
Final year Ph.D. student, Taylan Sen, collaborates with incoming Ph.D. student, Kurtis Haut, and wins the first place at the CASE challenge.
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.
