Jeffrey P. Bigham

Contact Information

720 Computer Studies Building
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627

(585) 360-0959

ROC HCI

ROC HCI ‐ Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Rochester

Ph.D. Students

Andrew AbuMoussa
Erin Brady
Walter Lasecki
Anna Loparev
Phyo Thiha
Yu Zhong

Teaching

Web ProgrammingSpring 2013
Intro to HCIFall 2012

News

Travel

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Crowd Actors / Real-Time Crowd-Powered Systems

two people made up of little people icons Our systems bring human computation into the everyday lives of people. Legion has the crowd reliably control robots, Scribe lets groups of non-experts caption speech in real-time as well as professional stenographers, and Chorus abstracts the crowd into an intelligent, interactive personal assistant.

Access Technology

the three screens of VizWiz -- take a picture, speak a question, and get an answer We design, build, and deploy new access technology for people with disabilties. VizWiz lets blind people take a picture, speak a question they’d like to know about it and receive an answer in real-time from the crowd. It’s answered more than 50,000 questions, providing an unprecedented look into what blind people actually want to know.

Social Question Asking and Friendsourcing

a bunch of print outs of pictures spread out on a table We study how people engage with social media to ask and answer questions. In a recent large-scale study, we explored how and why blind users sent visual questions to social media versus an anonymous crowd.

Social Media Analysis and Big Data

a map of the NYC area with varios points marked and connected.  a pop-up shows a single tweet but the text is not readable. Our “big data” systems help people make better decisions. TwitterHealth tracks how disease spreads across using geo-tagged tweets and helps people better understand their risk and behavior.

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