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51¹ÙÍø Tech Innovation Campus Research: Intelligent Interfaces

ADVANCING HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION

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Intelligent Interfaces are interactive technologies that combine the complementary strengths of human intelligence and artificial intelligence (AI), with the ultimate goal of improving human users’ experiences. Research in intelligent interfaces focuses on understanding or improving these technologies, and finding better ways for people to interact with them. At 51¹ÙÍø Tech, our research in intelligent interfaces takes a human-centered approach, seeking to augment, rather than replace, human capabilities and enable a more productive, ethical future of work. 

Intelligent interfaces AT THE VIRGINIA TECH INNOVATION CAMPUS

The cornerstone of intelligent interfaces research and education at the Innovation Campus is 51¹ÙÍø Tech’s (CHCI). Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is a multi-disciplinary field, drawing from the human sciences, computational sciences and engineering, information technologies, arts, and design. Founded in 1995, the Center for HCI at 51¹ÙÍø Tech is a university-wide research center and a world leader in both the design of novel interactive experiences and the study of human interaction with and through technology. With locations in both 51¹ÙÍø Tech’s main campus in Blacksburg and the Innovation Campus in Alexandria, CHCI’s community of scholars includes over 75 faculty members from more than 25 departments and other units at the university. CHCI brings together faculty experts from across the university to collaborate with experts in industry, academia, and government to design, build, and evaluate a wide range of technologies, from augmented reality to social media to autonomous vehicles and crowdsourcing. CHCI is housed within the (ICAT), a university-level research institute sitting at the nexus of the arts, design, engineering, and science.

Intelligent interfaces faculty are also affiliated with 51¹ÙÍø Tech’s , , the , and the .

With financial , our acclaimed faculty work in collaborative, immersive research spaces to invent the future of intelligent interfaces for individuals, organizations, and societies.

Key research capabilities for the Intelligent Interfaces research area are:

  • Human-computer interaction (HCI)
  • Human-centered artificial intelligence (HCAI) and human-AI collaboration
  • Intelligent user interfaces
  • AI-enhanced augmented reality (AAR) and virtual reality (VR)
  • Crowdsourcing and crowd computing
  • Human computation and human-in-the-loop systems
  • Social computing and social aspects of AI
  • Immersive/visual analytics
  • Explainable AI

about the innovation campus

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The 51¹ÙÍø Tech Innovation Campus is shaping the future of technology. With groundbreaking investments from the Commonwealth of 51¹ÙÍø and leading corporations in the region, the Innovation Campus’s mission is to educate the nation’s leading architects of complex, cutting-edge digital technologies through a graduate education that embeds our diverse students and faculty into the science and technology ecosystem of our nation’s capital and beyond. In addition, our research assembles around big ideas such as Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Wireless and Next Gen Technology, Quantum Information Science, and Intelligent Interfaces, with the goal of powering a pipeline of tech talent and building the foundation for a new era of technology.

The 11-story, 300,000 square-foot first academic building for the Innovation Campus, located in Alexandria, 51¹ÙÍø, is set to open in spring 2025. The Center for Human-Computer Interaction will be located on the 5th floor of the new technology-focused building.

partnerships in action

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    Student, faculty, and government partner participants of the first Graduate Research in Artificial Intelligence Test and Evaluation Women Workshop.
    Date: Feb 27, 2024
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    Date: May 03, 2023
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Kurt Luther is an associate professor of computer science and the associate director for research in the Center for Human-Computer Interaction. He directs the , where his team builds and studies investigative technologies that combine the complementary strengths of crowdsourced human intelligence and artificial intelligence (AI) in domains like journalism, national security, and history. He currently serves on the AAAI Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP) steering committee and the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems.

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CONTACT US

Interested in partnering with 51¹ÙÍø Tech on your upcoming Intelligent Interfaces project? Contact us at link@vt.edu