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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Grounded Semantic Reasoning for Robotic Interaction with Real-World Objects
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-12-13)Robots are increasingly transitioning from specialized, single-task machines to general-purpose systems that operate in unstructured environments, such as homes, offices, and warehouses. In these real-world domains, robots ... -
Leveraging Value-awareness for Online and Offline Model-based Reinforcement Learning
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-12-07)Model-based Reinforcement Learning (RL) lies at the intersection of planning and learning for sequential decision making. Value-awareness in model learning has recently emerged as a means to imbue task or reward information ... -
Interleaving Allocation, Planning, and Scheduling for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Coordination through Shared Constraints
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-12-07)In a wide variety of domains, such as warehouse automation, agriculture, defense, and assembly, effective coordination of heterogeneous multi-robot teams is needed to solve complex problems. Effective coordination is ... -
Specification-Based Task Orchestration for Multi-Robot Aerial Teams
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-08-11)As humans begin working more frequently in environments with multi-agent systems, they are presented with challenges on how to control these systems in an intuitive manner. Current approaches tend to limit either the ... -
Eating Behavior In-The-Wild and Its Relationship to Mental Well-Being
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-12-13)The motivation for eating is beyond survival. Eating serves as means for socializing, exploring cultures, etc. Computing researchers have developed various eating detection technologies that can leverage passive sensors ... -
Compute-proximal Energy Harvesting for Mobile Environments: Fundamentals, Applications, and Tools
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12-13)Over the past two decades, we have witnessed remarkable achievements in computing, sensing, actuating, and communications capabilities of ubiquitous computing applications. However, due to the limitations in stable energy ... -
Warm Solutions: Medical Making & Collaborative Infrastructure for Care
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12-13)Making, as an activity and culture, enables people to participate in technological innovation at non-traditional sites. In healthcare settings, medical makers undertake activities as a part of routine, professional care ... -
WIDGETs: Wireless Interactive Devices for Gauging and Evaluating Temperament for Service and Working Dogs
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-08-27)Both service and working dogs are significantly beneficial to society; however, a substantial number of dogs are released from time consuming and expensive training programs when their behavior is unsuitable for the role ... -
Deterrence through Entanglement
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-07-30)Many components of the Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications (NC3) architecture of the United States are vulnerable space systems. These space systems are considered entangled, which means they support both strategic ... -
Language Guided Localization and Navigation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-07-26)Embodied tasks that require active perception are key to improving language grounding models and creating holistic social agents. In this dissertation we explore four multi-modal embodied perception tasks and which require ... -
Designing human-centered technologies to mobilize social media data into institutional contexts
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-07-12)Social media platforms have become an established and alternative mechanism for communities to mobilize and exchange information in response to humanitarian or local crises. Due to the richness of experiences accumulated ... -
Interpreting Neural Networks for and with Natural Language
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05-18)In the past decade, natural language processing (NLP) systems have come to be built almost exclusively on a backbone of large neural models. As the landscape of feasible tasks has widened due to the capabilities of these ... -
Integrating Distributional, Compositional, and Relational Approaches to Neural Word Representations
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-06-17)When the field of natural language processing (NLP) entered the era of deep neural networks, the task of representing basic units of language, an inherently sparse and symbolic medium, using low-dimensional dense real-valued ... -
Coordinating Team Tactics for Swarm-vs.-Swarm Adversarial Games
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-07-12)While swarms of UAVs have received much attention in the last few years, adversarial swarms (i.e., competitive, swarm-vs.-swarm games) have been less well studied. In this dissertation, I investigate the factors influential ... -
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 ...
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