Human-Computer Interaction

Researchers

• Mark S. Ackerman  Professor
• Thomas Finholt  Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Innovation
• Michael J. McQuaid  Assistant Professor
• Mark W. Newman  Assistant Professor
• Gary M. Olson  Professor Emeritus
• Judith S. Olson  Professor Emerita
• Paul Resnick  Professor
• Stephanie Teasley  Research Associate Professor and Director of the Doctoral Program

Current Projects

Past Projects

Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI) The Center for Information Technology Integration engages in advanced development and research projects, in partnership with external sponsors, that will enhance the University of Michigan's information technology environment; and transfers the results to industry, government, and education. Since 1986, CITI has studied and developed information technologies that enhance the campus computing infrastructure. Contact: Thomas Finholt (finholt@umich.edu)

Web 2.0 Community Data Mining and Expertise (QuME) Expertise finders are an important class of collaborative recommendation systems, but they suffer from a general problem: Current expertise finders, both commercial and research, cannot infer expertise levels very well. Traditionally, expertise finders have relied on the standard information similarity measures (such as term vector comparisons). The ability to add the level of expertise would be a major step forward for expertise finders, and would likely open up a range of new application possibilities. This work proposes to solve this problem by constructing a prototype middleware system, called QuME, which contains a number of mechanisms to facilitate expertise finding, expertise exchange, and social interaction for online communities and organizations. QuME includes novel mechanisms to infer expertise levels, making a larger range of social interaction possible. Contact: Mark Ackerman (ackerm@umich.edu)