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Keep Forgetting Your Password? Try This Novel Virtual Authentication Technique

October 31, 2019

This first-person virtual maze offers more memorable, harder-to-break passwords for infrequent authentication.

Opportunities for Impact: Startup Zyrobotics Helped Ayanna Howard Reach More People

October 31, 2019

For the past six years, Zyrobotics has developed personalized technologies that stimulate social, cognitive, and motor skill development using fun and educational applications.

Restoring Data's Sense of Place

October 23, 2019

Assistant Professor Yanni Loukissas brings an architect's sense of place to data, arguing that "data aren't placeless."

Georgia Tech Researchers Share 13 Publications at Premier Visualization Conference

The School of Interactive Computing, Oct 21, 2019

A host of Georgia Tech faculty and students are attending the annual IEEE VIS conference in Vancouver, B.C., Canada this week, presenting a total of 13 publication. IEEE VIS is the premier visualization event, spanning three co-located conferences: Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), Information Visualization (InfoVis), and Scientific Visualization (SciVis). Explore Georgia Tech's research and hear an episode of the Interaction Hour podcast, featuring School of Interactive Computing Assistant Professor Alex Endert, at the link. 

AI Agent Breaks Down Social Barriers in Online Education

October 16, 2019

To directly address social barriers in virtual classes, an artificially intelligent system from Georgia Tech has been designed to connect online students quickly to their peers.

Jill Watson Now Fielding Questions on New AI-enabled Research Tool

October 14, 2019

A new AI-enabled research tool powered by the Smithsonian debuted in an undergraduate biology class at Georgia Tech this semester.

Premier Computer Vision Conference Accepts 10 Georgia Tech Papers

October 10, 2019

The Machine Learning Center will make a splash at the International Conference on Computer Vision later this month.

New $1.2 Million NSF Grant Aims to Improve Treatment for PTSD Patients

October 2, 2019

The grant -- which includes Georgia Tech, Emory, and the University of Rochester -- will fund the development of a computational assessment toolkit for patients and clinicians.

Cleaning Up the Community: Shagun Jhaver Explores Impact of Content Moderation Practices on Social Media

September 30, 2019

Online communities, once thought to be a place everyone had a voice, has instead become a Wild West. Understanding the impact of content moderation on user behavior could improve the free flow of ideas.

Tech Unbound Podcast EP8: Don’t Get Burned. Understanding Tech Adoption Among Firefighters

GVU Center at Georgia Tech, Sep 23, 2019

As far as first responder work goes, the firefighter profession tops the danger list. So can wearable computing tech help firefighters stay safer at emergency scenes or rescue the occasional cat in a tree? Researchers in the Participatory Publics Lab were able to provide an answer after studying two Georgia fire departments and their personnels’ use of a new commercial biometric device that measures vital signs while working.

Lead researcher Alyssa Rumsey shares details about firefighter culture, their use of technology, and how, before breathing apparatuses, firefighters used their beards as filters when at a fire scene.

Startup Connects Job Seekers with Autism to New Opportunities

September 5, 2019

Mentra pairs autistic people with students not on the spectrum to help them navigate the job hunt.

The Google Internship That Almost Wasn’t

MS-HCI Student Lands at the Search Giant and Learns That Only the Best Product Ideas Survive

September 5, 2019

Sam Harvey, MS student in human-computer interaction, is working on Google Flights and making sure his design decisions don't ruin your travel plans, or those for a million or so grandmothers.

Tech Unbound Podcast EP7: AIs and People Create Something Beautiful

GVU Center at Georgia Tech, Aug 27, 2019

A Georgia Tech group called the Expressive Machinery Lab is tackling a specific challenge in the artificial intelligence landscape - they have developed public exhibitions where the AI agents are front-and-center and people are able to create with them. 

Duri Long, PhD student in Human Centered Computing, joins the Tech Unbound podcast to talk about this research, and she shares some wild anecdotes from her time as a show runner and curator of some of these AI-powered exhibits. 

Firefighters Have Mixed Response to Wearable Tech for Emergency Work

August 27, 2019

A new study from Georgia Tech shows how advanced computing tech worn by firefighters impacts the nature of work for emergency responders, and how front-line firefighters and their commanders view its usefulness.

Researchers Use Social Media to Help Measure Outcomes of Psychiatric Medication

August 21, 2019

This research exists as a proof of concept to show levels of a specific condition – before and after medication use – using digital data.

While You Were Away: GT Computing 2019 Summer Highlights

College of Computing, Aug 21, 2019

Whether you were interning, traveling, building Star Wars sand sculptures, or binge-watching Black Mirror, chances are you weren't fully tuned into the College this summer.

Not to worry. We're here to catch you up on all the big stories you may have missed.

Researchers Use Social Media to Help Measure Outcomes of Psychiatric Medication

August 14, 2019

This research exists as a proof of concept to show levels of a specific condition – before and after medication use – using digital data.

ML@GT Announces Fall Seminar Series Speakers

August 9, 2019

The Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech will host five speakers this fall for their fall seminar series.

AI 'Performers' Take Center Stage and Get Creative with People in Public Spaces

August 9, 2019

Georgia Tech’s Expressive Machinery Lab has developed exhibitions where the AI agents are front-and-center and people are able to create with them. These AIs have included a dance partner, visual storyteller, music maker, and improv comedian.

'MacGyver'-like Robot Can Build Own Tools By Assessing Form, Function of Supplies

August 7, 2019

The breakthrough is a significant step toward enabling intelligent agents to devise more advanced tools that could prove useful in hazardous and potentially life-threatening environments.

Civic Data Science Pairs with Smart Cities for Sixth Summer

August 6, 2019

Students presented data science solutions for problems like climate change and traffic at the Civic Data Science (CDS) finale on July 28.

Tech Tuesday Takeover! Salt, the Humanoid Robot, Joins Christine and Cara

Atlanta & Company, Aug 6, 2019

School of Interactive Computing Ph.D. student De'Aira Bryant and her robot, Salt, from the Human-Automation Systems Lab at Georgia Tech joined Atlanta & Company for a demonstration and and explanation for how emotion detection can improve human-robot interaction.

Georgia Tech Faculty, Students, and Alumni Take Part in 41st Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

July 30, 2019

This year, the conference highlighted research on the theme Creativity+Cognition+Computation.

Tech Unbound Podcast EP6: Video Game Developers React in Wildly Different Ways to AI-Enabled Software

GVU Center at Georgia Tech, Jul 29, 2019

People are going to have a wide variety of reactions to artificially intelligent systems when we start working with them regularly. In this episode of Tech Unbound, we discuss a new AI-enabled software system for video game developers and the reaction gamedevs had to the AI creative partner.

We are joined by Matthew Guzdial, a newly minted Georgia Tech graduate with a Ph.D. in Computer Science. He shares part of his journey in computational creativity, details about some of the AI systems he’s created, and what an AI-enabled future might look like for people looking to get creative.

Check out Matthew's Ph.D. journey in one 'interactive' picture. 
 

Tech Unbound Podcast EP5: Robot Able to Instantly Identify Household Materials Without Touching Objects

GVU Center at Georgia Tech, Jul 17, 2019

Georgia Tech researchers have developed a scalable and cost-effective way robots can identify materials of objects in the home without touching the objects. PhD robotics student Zackory Erickson, advised by Charlie Kemp, joins the Tech Unbound Podcast to share how it works.

Using near-infrared light, similar to what’s used in TV remotes, the robot can identify common materials used in household objects to better inform its actions. This might allow intelligent machines to understand, for example, the right bowl (paper versus metal) to put in a microwave or how hard to grasp a cup made of glass versus plastic.

Robot Able to Instantly Identify Household Materials Using Near-Infrared Light

No Contact is Required with Objects by Using Inexpensive, Handheld 'Light-Reading' Device

July 8, 2019

Robots aren’t yet household fixtures, but Georgia Tech researchers have already come up with a way domestic bots might recognize materials around the home.

IC's Dhruv Batra Named PECASE Winner, One of Three at Georgia Tech

July 5, 2019

The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government to outstanding scientists and engineers beginning independent research careers.

Is Our AI On the Way to Becoming Control?

StarTrek.com, Jul 2, 2019

The powerful computer easily took control on 'Discovery.' Associate Professor Mark Riedl contributes to this discussion on whether or not that popular portrayal is a realistic representation of artificial intelligence.

IC Researchers Earn 2018 IJRR Paper of the Year for Impactful Robotics Research

June 28, 2019

With the award comes a $1,000 prize. Boots attended the Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) conference in the Freiburg, Germany, this week, where he accepted the award on behalf of his team.

Georgia Tech Team Wins New Fetch Robot at ICRA's FetchIt! Mobile Manipulation Challenge

June 28, 2019

A team of Georgia Tech master’s and Ph.D. students, advised by Sonia Chernova, won the challenge by successfully assembling three kits with its robot in 39 minutes.