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.
Vivian Li receives a CRA undergraduate research award honorable mention
Vivian Li receives a CRA undergraduate research award honorable mention.
Ehsan Hoque, among ‘10 Scientists to Watch’
Ehsan Hoque has been named Science News 10 Scientists to Watch List for 2017.
ROC HCI wins two best paper nominations
Congrats to Xiong Zhang for an Honorable Mention at UIST 2017 (paper:https://goo.gl/sjXrhp) and Ru Zhao for a Best Paper Nomination at Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction – ACII (paper: https://goo.gl/KHojeC).
ROC HCI Summer party 2017
A beautiful day to the celebrate all the members of the ROC HCI Lab and their accomplishments.
Human-Computer Interaction class creates programs, apps to improve lives
In many traditional computer science classes, students acquire a specific set of technical skills such as programming or algorithm design. In Ehsan Hoque’s Human-Computer Interaction class, along with acquiring new technical skills, students spend time thinking creatively about computers and ways they can use computing to solve pressing problems in society.
Hoque an inaugural member of Future of Computing Academy
The academy is an initiative of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest scientific and educational computing society, to enable “the next generation of researchers, practitioners, educators, and entrepreneurs to develop a coherent and influential voice that addresses challenging issues facing the field and society in general.”
Hoque receives World Technology Award
Ehsan Hoque, a computer scientist at the University of Rochester, has been recognized as a leading innovator in human-computer interaction with a World Technology Award from the World Technology Network.
Hoque receives MIT TR35 Award
Ehsan Hoque, assistant professor of computer science, is in rare company. The editors of MIT Technology Review have named Hoque one of this year’s “innovators under 35”
Luis Nova gets highlighted by the Hajim College of Engineering.
“The goal is to develop a conferencing application that senses many aspects of human behavior to assess group dynamics,” explained Luis Nova, a rising junior in computer science who joined the group this summer as a Xerox fellow.
ROC HCI Summer party 2016
Snippets from ROC HCI summer party at Ehsan’s house with students and collaborators.
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.