HCI Students are Engaged in Research

Students in ISU’s Human Computer Interaction graduate program pursue a variety of research opportunities. Current research topics include:

Research Title	Student(s)	Faculty Member(s)
Internal Employees as Usability Subjects:Does Status Affect Implementation?	Sondra Ashmore	Anthony Townsend
Usability Study for 360-Degree View Interfaces	Wutthigrai Boonsuk	Stephen Gilbert, Jonathan Kelly
Multiview Image Blending in the C6	Melissa Burton	Stephen Gilbert, Jonathan Kelly
OmniScribe	Jose Camou with Alden Peterson	Stephen Gilbert, Eliot Winer
Path-Finding For Three Dimensioinal Spaces	PJ Campbell	Eve Wurtele and Julie Dickerson
Social Technical Congruence: The Link Between Social Science and Technology	Patrick Carlson	Judy Vance
ConceptGrid:Natural Language Processing for Intelligent Tutors	Shrenik Devasani	Stephen Gilbert
Enhancing Realism and Flexibility of VR-Based real-Time simulation of Complex Systems with Hardware-in-the-Loop	Rachel Dudley	Atul Kelkar
Emergent Feedback from Virtual Buttons	Adam Faeth	Chris Harding
VirtuTrace: Decision-tracing in Virtual Reality	Kevin Godby	Nir Keren
The Effects of the TI-Navigator System on Student Achievement	Rachel Graham	Barbara Dougherty
Toward Learning about the Controllability of Containers and their Contents	Shane Griffith	Alex Stoytchev
Veldt: Mixed Reality LVC Training	Joe Holub with Brice Pollock	Eliot Winer and Stephen Gilbert
Behavioral Learning of Shape Affordances through Tool Use	Poorvi Joebert	Stephen Gilbert
Human Computer Interaction Issues with Multi-Touch screen interfaces in Flight Deck	Sridher Kaminani	James Oliver
holoVIDEO	Nikolaus Karpinsky	Song Zhang
Robotic Video Game Learning Using Self-Detection	Pavel Kazatsker	Alexander Stoytchev
Augmenting Older Adults' Well-Being: Three PC-based Prototypes	Norene Kelly	Peter Martin, Johnny Wong
Data Driven Prediction and Classification of Student Success	Ryan Kirk	Jared Danielson
Amazing Accessibility	Jim Koopman	Chris Harding
SANITee	Kenneth Kopecky	Eliot Winer
Mobile Interface for the Communication and Reference of Dynamic Tactical Information	Dillan Laughlin	Stephen Gilbert, Eliot Winer
Modern Genomic Sequence Finishing - an HCI Perspective	Paul Mangiamele
The Cognitive Implications of Semi-Natural Locomotion	Eric Marsh	Jonathan Kelly, Veronica Dark, James Oliver
Animal Express	Ted Martens	Debra Satterfield, Stephen Gilbert, Eliot Winer
Advanced Systems Design Suite	Brandon Newendorp with Christian Noon	Eliot Winer
Constructing a Collaborative Software Environment	David Prater	Anthony Townsend
Students' Result comparison in Online vs. Paper and Pencil Chemistry Assessment	Anna Prisacari	Thomas Holme
Developmentally Learning the Support Affordance of a Platform	Brian Russell	Alexander Stoytchev
Metablast: Integrating Games with the Classroom	Mark Stenerson	Eve Wurtele
The Effect of Dispersed Environments on Interaction Designers	Bennett Stone	Seda Yilmaz
Learning to Detect the Functional Components of Doorbell Buttons Using Active Exploration and Multimodal Correlation	Volodymyr Sukhoy	Alexander Stoytchev
Building an Application Framework for Aural-Visual-Haptic Interaction in VE-Sound Synth	Karl Svec	Christopher Hopkins, Mark Bryden
Interactive Visualization for Exploratory Data Analysis in R	Marie Vendettuoli	Di Cook, Heike Hofmann
Glove-Haptic Configuration for Bimanual Virtual Assembly and Mechanism Evaluation	Vikram Vyawahare	Judy Vance
Evaluating the Use of Blogging as Literature Discussion Within A Social Networking Site	Wei Wang	Ann Thompson, Amy Hutchison
Interaction Design: designing for everyday life	Cynthia Wiley	Debra Satterfield
VR JuggLua	Ryan Pavlik	Judy Vance

Research at the Virtual Reality Applications Center

Students have additional research opportunities through the program᾿s close connection to the Virtual Reality Applications Center. Check out the research page on the VRAC website.