A new evolution of computing is emerging around wearable technologies. Wearable computing has been a topic of research for years. However, we are beginning to see adoption by consumers and non-researchers due to advances ...

The emergence of digital capture and editing technologies make providing a more detailed and coherent description of the experiences depicted in photos possible. Through the combination of photos, music and voice, people ...

In order to make computers proactive and assistive, we must enable them to perceive, learn, and predict what is happening in their surroundings. This presents us with the challenge of formalizing computational models of ...

A key component of visualization systems that helps human sensemaking is interactivity. Thoughtfully designed interactions make the visual analysis process a conversation between the user and the interface that results in ...

People are susceptible to a multitude of biases, including perceptual biases and illusions; cognitive biases like confirmation bias or anchoring bias; and social biases like racial or gender bias that are borne of cultural ...

More than 95% of deaf children in the United States are born to hearing parents (Mitchell & Karchmer 2004). With the majority of hearing parents having little to no exposure to American Sign Language (ASL) prior to the ...

HelperBot is a prototype Slackbot designed to demonstrate how a conversational bot could be used to reduce the high attrition rate for online students by reducing students’ cognitive load.