Michigan Human-Centered Computing Lab
@umich_hcc_lab
We are the Michigan Human-Centered Computing Lab. Our research centers the process of computing system design and development around human needs and abilities.
Congratulations to our own @wjymonica Jingying Wang on receiving the prestigious Barbour Scholarship for her work on developing algorithms and interactive systems to advance medical education!!! cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/jingyi…
🎉 Huge congrats to Dhruv Jain (@dj_hci ) for being named an inaugural CRA-Microsoft Trustworthy AI Research Fellow! His groundbreaking work on accessible, inclusive, and responsible AI will inspire the national agenda. 🔗 cra.org/cra-and-micros… #TrustworthyAI #Accessibility
Just out at @PET_Symposium: @yashairavantchi, @PNaeini & @AlansonSample reveal a key gap in IoT privacy research. Their SoK work calls for cross-disciplinary methods + end-to-end evaluation to make privacy both effective and usable. #PETs2025 Read more: petsymposium.org/2025/program.p…
🚀 Shoutout to Prof. @xuwanghci & the U-M CSE team for teaming up with A2 STEAM to bring history to life! 🎮 They co-created a Silk Road–themed game for 7th graders—blending CS, storytelling & STEAM in the classroom. 🧠🕹️ #UMich #STEM #edtech #CSforGood cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/cse-te…
🚀 Thrilled to share that @xuwanghci of the HCC Lab has received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award! 🎉 This 5-year grant supports Xu's work on example-enhanced intelligent tutoring -- aimed to make expertise sharing more efficient. 🙌 nsf.gov/awardsearch/sh… #NSFCAREER @UMichCSE
🚀 Thrilled to share that @AnhongGuo of the HCC Lab has received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award! 🎉 This 5-yr grant supports Anhong’s work on DIY assistive tech for blind people—a major step toward inclusive human-AI innovation. 🙌 nsf.gov/awardsearch/sh… #NSFCAREER @umichcse
Our @ubicomp #mentalhealth workshop deadline has been updated! We are now accepting submissions until July 4. Please submit your great work at: new.precisionconference.com Select Society: SIGCHI -> Conference: UbiComp/ISWC 2025 -> Track: UbiComp/ISWC 2025 Mental Health
I am so excited that this workshop is happening again! This is a growing and great community in @ubicomp and #MentalHealth. Please submit your awesome work. We look forward to reading your submissions, and hope to see you in Finland at #UbiComp2025 / #ISWC2025!!
I am so excited that this workshop is happening again! This is a growing and great community in @ubicomp and #MentalHealth. Please submit your awesome work. We look forward to reading your submissions, and hope to see you in Finland at #UbiComp2025 / #ISWC2025!!
📢 Announcing the 10th Mental Health Workshop at the Ubicomp/ISWC 2025 Conference at Espoo, Finland. (October 12th or 13th (TBD), 2025) 📝 We invite paper submissions that explore the role of ubiquitous computing in both clinical and general populations concerning mental health…
Excited for Jaylin to join Tufts Computer Science @TuftsUniversity for her next chapter, continuing the important work on Accessibility, Design and AI! I've been lucky to work with her — congratulations!🎉🎉🎉
I’m so happy to share that I’ll be joining @TuftsUniversity @TuftsCS as an Assistant Professor in January 2026! 🥳 I’ll be recruiting PhD students this upcoming cycle, so keep an eye out for more info if you’re interested in accessibility, AI, and HCI! (1/2)
Go Jaylin!!
I’m so happy to share that I’ll be joining @TuftsUniversity @TuftsCS as an Assistant Professor in January 2026! 🥳 I’ll be recruiting PhD students this upcoming cycle, so keep an eye out for more info if you’re interested in accessibility, AI, and HCI! (1/2)
Registration for the 2025 ACM Learning at Scale Conference in sunny #Palermo (co-located w/@EDMConf2025 & # @AIEDconf) is open: servizitalia.it/registration-f…. This year, one ticket gets you into both #las25ed and #EDM2025! Take advantage of Early Bird rates until May 31. @OlgaOvi
While I'll have to miss #CHI2025, my students and collaborators are attending and presenting our work. Later this afternoon -4:20pm Explainable AI session, @wjymonica will share our work on eXplainMR - a VR tutoring system for ultrasound). See more: x.com/xuwanghci/stat…
Excited to share eXplainMR, presented by @wjymonica at #CHI2025 today. Paper link: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.18640. eXplainMR is a VR tutoring system that generates practice opportunities for ultrasound and provides real-time textual and visual explanations on why a move is performed.
🚀 Thrilled to see our LADICA work being shared in #chi2025. LADICA is such a thoughtful design for in-person collaboration - A powerful example of how AI can scaffold meta- and macro-cognition during co-located group work.
🚀 #CHI2025 Struggling with syncing, brainstorming, and collaborating in co-located group discussions? ✨We've designed LADICA to provide in-person teams with powerful meta- and macro-cognitive support while working in a shared digital workspace (1/n)
Meetings often drift off-track. Can AI help us reflect in the moment and realign? Our #CHI2025 paper explores how AI-assisted interventions influence goal reflection during workplace meetings. w/@lev_tank @rishivanukuru @PayodPanda @seanrintel @ava___scott
I would not have guessed that I would agree so much with Bjarne Stroustrup on how to teach programming. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/15/str…
Welcome Ishika!!
So so so excited and happy to share that I'll be joining University of Michigan, Ann Arbor CSE for my PhD this Fall!!! I will be working with the most amazing @QVeraLiao and @nikola_banovic at @umich_hcc_lab 🎉💕 Super stoked that the application season concluded on this note🌟
Check out new work on using simulated student profiles to help teachers configure chatbots
🌸New #CHI2025 paper alert!! 🤖👩🏫 How can teachers ensure that AI tutors work for every student? Our team envisions a future where teachers build chatbots (e.g., AI tutors) tailored to their curriculum and students. 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.04078
Check out our new paper on using simulated student profiles to help teachers configure chatbots!
🌸New #CHI2025 paper alert!! 🤖👩🏫 How can teachers ensure that AI tutors work for every student? Our team envisions a future where teachers build chatbots (e.g., AI tutors) tailored to their curriculum and students. 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.04078
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Had the final class of my favorite course this semester: AI in Education. We read and discussed early rule-based intelligent tutors guided by a cognitive model, to the latest research on LLM-powered tutors. It's exciting to see old/classic techniques meeting new ones!