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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Deep learning for building and validating geometric and semantic maps
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05-05)Mapping the world is an essential tool for making spatial artificial intelligence a reality in our near future. Spatial AI, or embodied intelligence for 3D perception, enables awareness and understanding of our surroundings. ... -
CONTROLLABLE CONTENT BASED IMAGE SYNTHESIS AND IMAGE RETRIEVAL
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05-03)In this thesis, we address the problem of returning target images that match user queries in image retrieval and image synthesis. We investigate line drawing sketch as the main query, and explore several additional signals ... -
Ubiquitous Self-Powered Ambient Light Sensing Surfaces
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-01)Many human activities interfere with ambient light in a predictable and detectable way in that our activities implicitly or explicitly block the paths of ambient light in our environment. This dissertation explores sensing ... -
Nuclear Communities: Epistemic Community Structure and Nuclear Proliferation Latency
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-03)This dissertation examines variation in nuclear weapons proliferation outcomes and program duration. This seeks to address a persisting gap in the scholarship of nuclear weapons and their proliferation using quantitative ... -
Robot Manipulation Alongside and in Collaboration with People
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-01-22)Autonomous robot manipulation in unstructured environments is a required behavior for many robotics applications, from day-to-day household tasks to remote exploration of dangerous environments. To effectively deploy such ... -
Deriving Sensor-based Complex Human Activity Recognition Models Using Videos
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-10-14)With the ever-increasing number of ubiquitous and mobile devices, Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using wearables has become a central pillar in ubiquitous and mobile computing. HAR systems commonly adopt machine learning ... -
THE PRIVATE SECTOR AND CIVIL CONFLICT: LEVERAGING ECONOMIC SECTORS FOR PEACE
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12-13)My dissertation, The Private Sector and Civil Conflict: Leveraging Economic Sectors for Peace, aims to better understand the relationship between the private sector and peace, filling an academic gap and addressing a policy ... -
Designing User-Centered Interfaces to Support Clinical Decision-Making and Patient Engagement
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12-17)The delivery of most psychotherapies has been constrained by data collected from patient self-report and clinician intuition for the last century. Clinicians who use evidence-based treatments need methods, tools, and data ... -
Feynman-Kac Numerical Techniques for Stochastic Optimal Control
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-08-25)Three significant advancements are proposed for improving numerical methods in the solution of forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) appearing in the Feynman-Kac representation of the value function ... -
Computational and Causal Approaches on Social Media and Multimodal Sensing Data: Examining Wellbeing in Situated Contexts
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-07-29)A core aspect of our lives is often embedded in the communities we are situated in. The interconnectedness of our interactions and experiences intertwines our situated context with our wellbeing. A better understanding of ... -
Responsible machine learning: supporting privacy preservation and normative alignment with multi-agent simulation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-08-03)This dissertation aims to advance responsible machine learning through multi-agent simulation (MAS). I introduce and demonstrate an open source, multi-domain discrete event simulation framework and use it to: (1) improve ... -
Language Learning in Interactive Environments
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-07-28)Natural language communication has long been considered a defining characteristic of human intelligence. I am motivated by the question of how learning agents can understand and generate contextually relevant natural ... -
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 ...
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