Human Computer Interaction
| HCI is the region of intersection between the social and behavioral sciences, and information technology. It provides a challenging test domain for applying and developing social theory and a stringent source of constraints for creating and evaluating new information systems. |
3D Interaction Group
URL: https://research.cs.vt.edu/3di/
Contact: Doug Bowman
3DI stands for "three-dimensional interaction". Our research spans 3D user interfaces, interaction techniques, and applications, especially in the area of Virtual Environments (VE). Interaction in three dimensions is not well-understood, but is crucial to highly interactive VE applications like immersive education, scientific visualization, and immersive design. The mission of our lab is to perform both basic and applied research in three-dimensional (3D) interaction and VE technology, and to develop applications of VEs in a wide variety of domains.
Animation and Gaming Research Lab
Contact: Yong CaoDesign of Interactive Systems Studio
Contact: Steve HarrisonDistributed Virtual Environments Laboratory
Contact: Denis GracaninGigapixel Display Laboratory
URL: http://infovis.cs.vt.edu/gigapixel/
Contact: Chris North
The GigaPixel Display Laboratory is hosted by Virginia Tech's Department of Computer Science and the Center for Human-Computer Interaction (CHCI). This NSF-funded facility contains reconfigurable ultra-high resolution displays, totaling approximately 200 million pixels, one of the highest resolutions in the world.
h.Lab
The h.Lab investigates the phenomenology of mediated life.
Laboratory for Information Visualization and Evaluation
URL: http://infovis.cs.vt.edu/
Contact: Chris North
The LIVE lab studies the design, development, and evaluation of information visualizations. Information visualizations are interactive visual representation of abstract data that enable people to effectively explore and understand large quantities of complex information.
Notification Systems Research Lab
URL: http://research.cs.vt.edu/ns/
Contact: Scott McCrickard
Notification systems attempt to deliver current, important information to the user in an efficient and effective manner. Examples of familiar notification systems include instant messaging systems, system and user status updates, email alerts, and news and stock tickers. With the popularity of these systems skyrocketing in recent years, our group explores the effects of incoming notifications on ongoing computing tasks, creating models for their design, implementation, and evaluation. Please feel free to contact us with questions or comments about our work.
Personal Information Management Lab
URL: http://perez.cs.vt.edu/pim
Contact: Manuel Pérez-Quiñones
The PIM lab studies how individuals use technology to organize and use their day to day information needs. The goal is to explore how to best make use of our limited personal resources (time, money, energy, attention) to improve the quality of our lives. This often translate to better productivity but can simply mean more satisfaction. An area of interest is how advances in PIM research could informs education programs that focus on information literacy. We are particularly interested in how people use many devices in their day to day activities. To support that, we have available for research desktops, laptops, web servers, large displays, iPods, PDAs, RFIDs, phone system with support for VoiceXML, and many other technologies.
Pragmatics of Educational/Emotional Computing (POET) Research Lab
Contact: Deborah TatarThe POET lab engages in research of real-world technology projects that promote equity and excellence in K-12 math and science classrooms and university engineering education, explores systems (especially Tuple Space-based) to support complex human coordination, lies in the realms of computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) and computer-supported cooperative learning (CSCL), evaluates handheld, tablet, and large-screen computing, and contributes to the issues of social attention and technology.
Social Computing Lab
URL: http://diggov.cs.vt.edu/
Contact: Andrea Kavanaugh
Social computing is the study of the social use and impact of information technology, and the study of information technology designed specifically for social purposes, such as interpersonal and group communication, discussion, and social interaction (e.g., electronic mail, instant messenger, discussion tools, blogging, and social websites, such as Friendster, Facebook, and MySpace). It draws on multiple disciplines, including sociology, social psychology, political science, communication studies, and computer science.
ThirdLab
Third Lab provides the intellectual home for two HCI lab groups - Deborah Tatar's POET Lab and Steve Harrison's h.Lab . While each of the labs have different projects and ask different kinds of questions, both are fundmentally phenomenologically situated.
The name comes from the seminal paper by Harrison, Tatar and Sengers, The Third Paradigm which organizes the intellectual landscape of HCI into "classical human factors" (e.g. critical incidents), "classical cognitivism" (human information processing model, GOMS, KLM, and other quantifiable performance-oriented systems), and "phenomologically situated" (semiotic design, sociality, ethnography, affect, activity theory, cultural probes, etc.) "Third" also refers to the semeiotic system of Charles Sandes Peirce in which a "sign" is made up of the representation, the thing refered to by the representation, and a third thing -- the idea in the mind that connects the two.
Third Lab meets Wednesday afternoons.
Vision Interfaces and Systems Laboratory
URL: http://vislab.cs.vt.edu/
Contact: Francis Quek
The Vision Interfaces and Systems Laboratory is engaged in research along three themes: advanced human computer interaction, computer vision, and medical imaging. Ongoing projects in VISLab are: multimodal human-computer interaction, multimodal meeting analysis of planning meetings, conversational interaction, vision-based hand gesture interaction; vision-based gaze tracking, multimedia databases; automated segmentation of video; registration of aerial video/photography from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, extraction of the neurovascular tree from multimodal medical images; and, three-dimensional alignment of multimodal medical images. The fundamental vision of the VISLab is that Computer Science and Engineering, in general, and HCI and Computer Vision, in particular, have an important role to play in a vast array of arts and sciences. Most of the research in the VISLab is collaborative with other fields. In return, the real challenges of these real projects enrich and focus our research.
Visual Computing Lab
URL: http://snoid.sv.vt.edu/visionarium
Contact: Nicholas Polys
Doug A. Bowman
Associate Professor
| Office: | 1134 KWII |
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| Email: | dbowman@vt.edu |
| Phone: | 540-231-2058 |
| Website: | https://research.cs.vt.edu/3di/user/123 |
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Yong Cao
Assistant Professor
| Office: | 1124 KWII |
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| Email: | yongcao@cs.vt.edu |
| Phone: | (540) 231-0415 |
| Website: | http://people.cs.vt.edu/~yongcao/ |
| Office Hours: | McBryde 122-B: MW: 2:30 - 4:00 |
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Roger W. Ehrich
Professor Emeritus
| Office: | 1129 KWII |
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| Email: | ehrich@vt.edu |
| Phone: | (540) 231-5420 |
| Website: | http://pixel.cs.vt.edu/ehrich/vita.html |
| Office Hours: | By appointment |
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Ed Fox
Professor
| Office: | 2160G Torgersen |
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| Email: | fox@vt.edu |
| Phone: | (540) 231-5113, (540) 230-6266 |
| Website: | http://fox.cs.vt.edu/foxinfo.html |
| Office Hours: | T: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, W: 12:30 to 2:00 pm |
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Denis Gracanin
Associate Professor
| Office: | 1135 KWII |
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| Email: | gracanin@vt.edu |
| Phone: | (540) 231-2060 |
| Website: | http://people.cs.vt.edu/~gracanin/ |
| Office Hours: | McBryde 122-A: T: 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. |
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Steve Harrison
Associate Professor of Practice
| Office: | 1121 KWII |
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| Email: | srh@vt.edu |
| Phone: | (540) 231-7783, (540) 231-6075 |
| Website: | http://people.cs.vt.edu/~srh/ |
| Office Hours: | McBryde 106: T: 2:30-3:30 or by appointment |
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Andrea L. Kavanaugh Knowledge Works II, 2202 Kraft Drive, Blacksburg, VA 24060
Senior Research Scientist Associate Director; Center for Human-Computer Interaction
| Office: | 1116 KWII |
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| Email: | kavan@vt.edu |
| Phone: | (540) 231-1806 |
| Website: | http://www.cs.vt.edu/user/kavanaugh |
| Office Hours: | By appointment |
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Scott McCrickard
Associate Professor
| Office: | 1118 KWII |
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| Email: | dmccrick@vt.edu |
| Phone: | (540) 231-6698 |
| Website: | http://people.cs.vt.edu/~mccricks/ |
| Office Hours: | On sabbatical |
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Chris North
| Office: | 1142 KWII |
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| Email: | north@vt.edu |
| Phone: | (540) 231-2458 |
| Website: | http://people.cs.vt.edu/~north |
| Office Hours: | McBryde 122-B: TR: 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. |
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Nicholas F. Polys
Affiliate Professor
| Office: | 3030A Torgersen Hall |
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| Email: | npolys@vt.edu |
| Phone: | (540) 231-0968 |
| Website: | http://people.cs.vt.edu/~npolys/ |
| Office Hours: | R: 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. and by appointment |
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Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones
Associate Professor
| Office: | 1125 KWII |
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| Email: | perez@cs.vt.edu |
| Phone: | (540) 231-2646 |
| Website: | http://perez.cs.vt.edu/ |
| Office Hours: | on sabbatical. |
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Francis Quek
Professor
| Office: | 1130 KWII |
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| Email: | quek@vt.edu |
| Phone: | (540) 231-8453 |
| Website: | http://www.hci.vt.edu/ |
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Deborah Tatar
Associate Professor
| Office: | KWII 1123 |
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| Email: | dtatar@vt.edu |
| Phone: | (540) 231-8457 |
| Website: | http://people.cs.vt.edu/dtatar/ |
| Office Hours: | McBryde 106: M: 5:00 - 6:00, KWII 1123: W: 11:00 - 12:00, and by appointment |
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3D Interaction and Information-Rich Virtual Environments for Building Security Visualization
Granting Institution: Robert Bosch Research and Technology Center
Amount: $140,869
3D Interfaces for Improved Interpretation of Hard-To-Discriminate Ballistic Objects
Granting Institution: Department of Defense
Amount: $65,000
A Preliminary Evaluation of the Blacksburg Electronic Village, Co-Principal Investigator
Granting Institution: Council for Library Resources
Amount: $9,665
A4RC Summer Research Program 2008
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation (subcontract from NCA&T)
Amount: $15,032
Beyond the Talking Head And Animated Icon: Behaviorally Situated Avatars For Tutoring
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $273,504
Building Broadband Networks for Rural Health and Education, Principal Investigator
Granting Institution: US Department of Commerce: Public Telecommunications Facilities Program
Amount: $327,500
Building Community in Rural America: A Replicable Model for Community Networking, Co-Principal Investigator
Granting Institution: US Department of Commerce: Telecommunications Infrastructure and Information Assistance Program
Amount: $266,710
Capturing Ephemeral Communication Data From The VT Tragedy: Toward Managing Emergency Response By Citizens
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $126,873
CAREER: Domain -Specific 3D Interaction Techniques for Design and Construction Tasks in Immersive Virtual Environments
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $500,000
CRI: Interfaces For The Embodied Mind
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $394,261
CRI: Versatile 3D Imaging and Visualization System
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $162,571
Development of Trauma Surgery Simulation Software
Granting Institution: Carilion Clinic
Amount: $60,000
EAGER: Drummer Game: A Massive-Interactive Socially-Enabled Strategy Game
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount:
Embodied Communication: Vivid Interactions With History And Literature
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $103,839
Embodiment Awareness, Mathematics Discourse, And The Blind
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $712,100
Evaluation of the Impact of Computer Networking on K-12 Education Reform, Co-Principal Investigator
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation: CISE Network Infrastructure for Education Program (9602276)
Amount: $151,493
Graphical User Interface Development for Video Summarization Applications
Granting Institution: Signal Processing Inc.
Amount: $12,525
HCC-Small: Human Micro-coordination in a World of Pervasive Computing
Granting Institution: NSF
Amount: $499,276
II-EN: Device and Display Ecologies
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $600,000
Integrating Scenario-Based Usability Engineering And Agile Software Development Practices
Granting Institution: Meridium
Amount: $75,000
Interactive Virtual Environments for Science and Engineering Education
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $74,824
Interdisciplinary Views of the Blacksburg Electronic Village (BEV), Senior Investigator
Granting Institution: NSF: Information Technology Research (ITR) Program
Amount: $458,166
Internet Community Center in Zahedan, Iran: Training and entrepreneurship for women and youth (Outside Evaluator)
Granting Institution: The World Bank, InfoDev Program
Amount:
ITR: Adaptive and Real-Time Geologic Mapping, Analysis, and Design of Underground Space (AMADEUS)
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $1,067,116
NSF: CTRNet: Integrated Digital Library Support for Crisis, Tragedy and Recovery (IIS-0916733), Co-Principal Investigator
Granting Institution: Virginia Tech
Amount: $500,000
Participation on the Town Square in the Era of Web 2.0, Principal Investigator
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation, Social-Computational Systems Program
Amount: $750,000
Personalization of Content: Bridging the Gap Between the NSDL and It's Users
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $379,231
Planning for Broadband Network Needs of Rural Health and Education: Wireless Solutions, Principal Investigator
Granting Institution: US Department of Commerce: Public Telecommunications Facilities Program (PTFP 510399231)
Amount: $75,237
Planning for Virtual Schools in an Electronic Village (9454803), Co-Principal Investigator
Granting Institution: NSF CISE, Network Infrastructure for Education Program
Amount: $99,825
REU Site: Building Interfaces for Tomorrow's Technology--The Virginia Tech Research in Human-Computer Interaction Program
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount:
REU Sites: Building Interfaces For Tomorrow's Technology-The Virginia Tech Undergraduate Research In Human-Computer Interaction Program
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $276,715
Scaling Up Middle School Mathematics Innovations, Phase II
Granting Institution: SRI International
Amount: $657,745
Social Organization, Learning Technologies & Disclosure: System Features for Faciliation Mathematical Reasoning in Pre-K Students
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $47,841
The Use and Social Impact of IT Infrastructure on Local Public and Non-profit Sectors: An Assessment of Community Networks, Principal Investigator
Granting Institution: US Department of Commerce: National Telecommunications and Information Program
Amount: $100,000
Towards Unbounded Display: Developing A Reconfigurable Research Testbed For Large-Scale, High-Resolution Visual Displays
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $230,067
Ultra-High Resolution Interactive Information Visualization
Granting Institution: National Geospatical Intelligence Agency
Amount: $708,016
Virtual Environment (VE) Applications To Improve Mining Health And Safety Training
Granting Institution: National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health
Amount: $640,501
