CS 565: Human-Computer Interaction 'Patient' Project Information: Spring 2018

The following projects have been proposed:

Hue lights app, a home automation configuration tool (Kim Kaaz)

The 'patient' is an app you use to configure your smart lights schedule or other features to automate your home. It's typical of most home automation configuration tools. FYI, last study showed all 24 participants did not understand the system or configuration. Contact person: Kim Kaaz.

Team: Kim et al.


COE IT website (Todd Shechter and Mark Staben, COE Support)

Todd is interested in feedback on our COE IT website. This is our main site for providing needed IT information to OSU COE students, staff, and faculty. Contact person: Todd Shechter will be the main contact.

Team: Xingyu Fan, Xuemeng Wang, Hengrui Huang, Weijie Mo


Explaining an agent video-game player with saliency maps (Jed Irvine, EECS)

This is part of the XAI (Explainable AI) project. Jed leads a team that is building an emerging system in which an AI agent plays a tiny video game. The purpose of the system is to explore how to explain the agent's behavior. The UI is just now emerging, and needs a lot of thought. Contact person: Jed Irvine

Team: Andrew et al.


The GenderMag Recorder's Assistant (Chris Mendez, Christopher Perdriau, and Dr. Burnett, EECS)

The GenderMag Recorder's Assistant "takes notes" for people doing a GenderMag evaluation of a software project. It runs in Chrome. The UI would benefit from some attention. This is an Open Source project, and if your UI turns out well, you could eventually (after the class) implement some of your recommended changes for the world to see and use. Contact: Chris Mendez.

Team: (open)


OrangeWave: Health field studies made easy (Doshna Umma Reddy)

Website for managing health studies data. Project Staff or Health Scientist can enroll and manage hundreds of subjects across diverse groups. Supports sending emails and text messages to subjects, view their FitBit data in graphical form. This is not restricted for health studies; any study can be customized on OrangeWave instead of managing data in plain excel sheets. Contact person: Doshna Umma Reddy.

Team: Doshna et al.


CHARLIE: Curriculum Heuristic Active Learning with Intent Explanation (Beatrice Moissinac)

An active learning with a human-in-the-loop system. The Active Learning algorithm presents instances to label, as well as explanations (in the XAI sense) of its mechanics. How does one evaluate the interpretability of an explanation, as well as the user mental model of the consequence of the feedback the user will give on the explanation (i.e., does the user understand how his/her feedback affect the learning algorithm). Contact person: Beatrice Moissinac.

Team: Beatrice et al.


ClickPlot (Tim Burnett, Garmin)

ClickPlot is a line chart based data visualization app, intended for scientists and engineers. Contact person: Tim Burnett.

Team: Haoxiang Yang et al..


SchoolAuction.net (Olivia Hinton, Northworld)

SchoolAuction.net is web-based software to help auction teams plan, manage and run school or nonprofit fundraising auctions. Contact: Olivia Hinton.

Team: Tanya, Ashutosh, Hima.


Code Bubbles (Nicholas Nelson)

From the original authors: "Developers spend significant time reading and navigating code fragments spread across multiple locations. The file-based nature of contemporary IDEs makes it prohibitively difficult to create and maintain a simultaneous view of such fragments. We propose a novel user interface metaphor for code understanding and maintanence based on collections of lightweight, editable fragments called bubbles, which form concurrently visible working sets." Contact person: Nicholas Nelson, although he says his expertise in using Code Bubbles is superficial.

Team: Nicholas et al.


Web Design, Management, and Interaction Lesson site (Pam Van Londen, EECS)

Step-by-step online lessons for coders, designers, and marketers. Contact person: Pam Van Londen: she is the author, designer, and developer of the site.

Team: Jiyuan et al..


ChairBot: robotic chairs. (Abhijeet Agnihotri)

There are one or many robots in the field of view of an overhead camera. The web interface along with a handheld -PlayStation- controller will let anybody (with or without prior experience with robots) control the robotic system. The interface might have a video feed, along with buttons to turn on robots, let them do tasks autonomously, or switch to manual mode, switch between other robots, etc. There will only be one user, controlling the robot at a time though. Contact person: Abhijeet Agnihotri.

Team: Abhijeet et al.


The Human Research Protection Program (HRPP) and Institutional Review Board (IRB) web site (Jillian Coleman, OSU IRB)

This is the web site where OSU researchers come to learn more about the requirements for research involving human subjects and when IRB review is required, to download forms and templates, and find information about resources. Contact person: Jillian Coleman.

Team: Raunak, Brijesh, Kevin, Lilly .



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Date of last update: April 19, 2018