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We designed a tool that facilitates the entire online ideation process, from choosing different ideation techniques, to presenting ideas and critiquing them. We aim to tackle problems such as embodiment and asynchronicity for online group work. |
Initial Problem statement:How to improve the well-being of seniors with a specific cultural background in the US context, during the influence of thriving online services and the low digital literacy of the user group? |
Although it is well-established that the environment (e.g., sound, light, temperature) can be a significant contributor to sleep disruption, few technologies have been designed to capture the environmental factors that affect sleep. We developed a low-cost and robust sensor designed to collect highly accurate environmental light and sound data in a natural home environment at fine temporal resolution. We deploy these sensors in the bedrooms of older adults for an extended period to comprehensively describe the sleep environment and to uncover the metrics most salient for sleep disruption.  |
As the 2020 pandemic soared, so did the customer demand for contactless buying online and pickup in-store orders. To meet our customer needs while doing the right things for the safety of our community, Home Depot launched the Curbside Pickup service. |
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This project is a virtual reality experience centered on Article 25 of the Declaration of Human Rights: "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing, and medical care..." The experience sheds light on the problem of homelessness in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The user will experience a narrative story while virtually serving characters that are representative of Atlanta's homeless population. The experience also includes information about current statistics and ways to volunteer to a |
Utilizing a fully tunable and dimmable LED lighting system in a mock patient room, we have been able to test the acceptability of a dozen lighting conditions. Improving the lighting in hospitals has the potential to improve the patient experience, promote better sleep hygiene and allow nursing staff to conduct critical tasks as night without waking the patient.  |
The purpose of this study is to investigate how cultural background influences Western and Eastern MMOG players in the case of WOW. This thesis explores the influence of culture on MMOG players in three different cultural contexts: United States (US) servers, Chinese (CN) servers, and Taiwanese (TW) servers. This comparison will allow a comparison of Western vs. Eastern players as well as two similar Eastern cultures that play slightly different versions of the game.  |
More and more people today are using activity trackers like Fitbit and connecting them to their social media like Twitter. And what more, some people make their daily quantified activity time series public. So on one hand, we have their entire twitter network in the form of timelines, friends, followers and their entire network and on the other hand, we have their entire workout data. We are trying to answer some interesting question from these two sets of data. |
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Chemtrails is considered by conspiracy theorists as the visible condensation trails behind airplanes, which is sprayed for nefarious purposes unbeknownst to the public. In order to understand people's beliefs, we interviewed 28 people who discuss about chemtrails from multiple online communities on Facebook, Reddit, Discord, and Chemtrail forums. We believe that an understanding of the roles, mechanisms, and processes that foment conspiratorial ideation can shed light on how adversarial information campaigns are likely to be effective. |
Providing a framework for fostering creativity and entrepreneurship among Atlanta artists. |
Human-Robot Interaction: Risk and Trust |
User interaction is central to the data analysis process fostered by interactive visual analytic interfaces. However, in many current systems, user interaction is represented as an ephemeral action taken by a user that moves the system from one state to another. User interactions are quantitative bits of the analytic dialog between people, the system, and the data - and when modeled - can be tactfully integrated into visual analytic systems. We propose a library to help researchers and developers capture, interpret, and model interactions in web-based visual analytic tools. |
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HIV in India is a widely prevalent and complex disease. Treatment is an issue for the economically disadvantaged for financial and social reasons. When designing technology in this context it is important to remember not just the technical requirements but also the effects of stigma and other such contextual factors. NGOs play a key role in the dissemination of awareness and treatment. Thus the outreach workers at the NGO are an important aspect of connecting with the PLHIV. This project is the result of ethnographic research work done over summer '16 and spring '17. |
We are looking at identifying instances of Human Trafficking on online marketplaces and review sites. Using textual and visual cues, we are training a classifier to predict the likelihood of being trafficked. |
Facilitating the use of smartphone photography to aid psychotherapy |
