School of Interactive Computing Theses and Dissertations
The College of Computing formed the School of Interactive Computing in 2007. SIC has taken the initiative in creating new, more effective techniques and practices for computing education. At the doctoral level, we led in the development of a Ph.D. in robotics; we’ve led a national trend in offering a Ph.D. in human-centered computing; and we participate fully in the College’s Ph.D. in computer science.
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Recent Submissions
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Neurosymbolic Automated Story Generation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-04-07)Although we are currently riding a technological wave of personal assistants, many of these agents still struggle to communicate appropriately. Humans are natural storytellers, so it would be fitting if artificial intelligence ... -
Empowering users to communicate their preferences to machine learning models in Visual Analytics
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-01-21)Recent visual analytic (VA) systems rely on machine learning (ML) to allow users to perform a variety of data analytic tasks, e.g., biologists clustering genome samples, medical practitioners predicting the diagnosis for ... -
Towards Transparent and Grounded Visual AI Systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-04-27)My research goal is to build transparent and grounded AI systems. More specifically, my research tries to answer the question -- Do deep visual models make their decisions for the "right reasons"? In my dissertation, I ... -
Computational Methods for Measurement of Visual Attention from Videos towards Large-Scale Behavioral Analysis
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-02-18)Visual attention is one of the most important aspects of human social behavior, visual navigation, and interaction with the world, revealing information about their social, cognitive, and affective states. Although ... -
FROM NEEDS TO STRENGTHS: DEVISING ASSETS-BASED PARENT-EDUCATION ICTS FOR LATINX/A/O IMMIGRANT PARENTS IN THE UNITED STATES
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-04-28)Immigration to higher-income countries such as the United States (U.S.) is a worldwide, growing phenomenon. As the number of people moving across the world increases, so does the number of children of immigrants needing ... -
EMBODIMENT IN COMPUTER SCIENCE LEARNING: HOW SPACE, METAPHOR, GESTURE, AND SKETCHING SUPPORT STUDENT LEARNING
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-01)Recently, correlational studies have found that psychometrically assessed spatial skills may be influential in learning computer science (CS). Correlation does not necessarily mean causation; these correlations could be ... -
Facilitating Reliable Autonomy with Human-Robot Interaction
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-04-29)Autonomous robots are increasingly deployed to complex environments in which we cannot predict all possible failure cases a priori. Robustness to failures can be provided by humans enacting the roles of: (1) developers who ... -
Exploring User Perception of Causality in Automated Data Insights
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-04-30)To facilitate data exploration and analysis, researchers have studied and developed systems that aim to automatically communicate data insights to users. For a data set of cars, these systems may proactively recommend a ... -
Constructive Lattice Geometry
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-01)Lattice structures are widespread in product and architectural design. Recent work has demonstrated the printing of nano-scale lattices. However, an anticipated increase in product complexity will require the storage, ... -
Designing Co-Creative, Embodied AI Literacy Interventions for Informal Learning Spaces
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-04-26)Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly prevalent in everyday life, but there are still many misconceptions about what exactly AI is, what it is capable of, and how it works. This suggests a need for learning experiences ... -
Code-Upload AI Challenges on EvalAI
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-04)Artificial intelligence develops techniques and systems whose performance must be evaluated on a regular basis in order to certify and foster progress in the discipline. We have developed several tools such as EvalAI which ... -
Virtual Reality as a Stepping Stone to Real-World Robotic Caregiving
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-04)Versatile robotic caregivers could benefit millions of people worldwide, including older adults and people with disabilities. Recent work has explored how robotic caregivers can learn to interact with people through physics ... -
A Grassroots Praxis of Technology: View from The South
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-10-29)Grassroots social movements led by Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) in the southeastern United States have survived and fought through centuries of systemic oppression. In the recent age of Information Communication ... -
Maker-Oriented Curriculum for Human-Centered Design and Prototyping Instruction
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-10-16)As the role of human-centered design and human-computer interaction continues to expand its role in undergraduate and graduate computer science and engineering programs, the demand for tools and technologies to study these ... -
User’s role in shaping WeChat as an infrastructure: practice, appropriation, creation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-08-17)The past decade has seen the rapid development of information and communication technologies, particularly online social platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. While online social platforms have existed since the early ... -
VISUAL DENSE THREE-DIMENSIONAL MOTION ESTIMATION IN THE WILD
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-08-19)One of the most fundamental abilities of the human perception system is to seamlessly sense the changing 3D worlds from our ego-centric visual observations. Driven by the modern applications of robotics, autonomous driving, ... -
Improved search techniques for structured prediction
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-29)Many useful AI tasks like machine translation, captioning or program syn- thesis to name a few can be abstracted as structured prediction problems. For these problems, the search space is well-defined but extremely large ... -
Search-based collision-free motion planning for robotic sculpting
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-28)In this work, I explore the task of robot sculpting. I propose a search-based planning algorithm to solve the problem of sculpting by material removal with a multi-axis manipulator. I generate collision free trajectories ... -
Measuring the effect of user experience and engagement on learning using interactive simulations
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-21)Previous studies have explored the best methods to measure emotional, cognitive, and physical engagement, but these methods have not been applied to fully understand the impact of multimodal interactive simulations on ... -
Human-guided task transfer for interactive robots
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-06)Adaptability is an essential skill in human cognition, enabling us to draw from our extensive, life-long experiences with various objects and tasks in order to address novel problems. To date, robots do not have this kind ...
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