REU Site: Exploring Human Centered and Socially Relevant Interactive Technologies in Computer Vision, Visualization, Pervasive Computing, Serious Games, and Social Networks

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The objective of the REU Site at UNC Charlotte is to implement effective practices to engage a diversegroup of undergraduate students in computing research. Undergraduate students will actively pursueresearch that applies human-computer interaction (HCI) concepts to advance the state of the art in aparticular field, including pervasive computing, computer vision, data visualization, social networks, andserious games. Each research project has a socially relevant theme, providing students with theopportunity to apply and extend their computing knowledge to address problems that have a real-worldimpact. The site emphasizes participation of promising students from underrepresented groups incomputing and from institutions that have limited research programs. To help students become rapidlyimmersed in the culture of research and to prepare them for meaningful research experiences, the sitecultivates an authentic community of practice that values the contributions of REU students asresearchers, and provides REU participants with explicit, just-in-time training in research skills at aweekly workshop.The intellectual merit of this project lies in the REU students? contributions to the discovery andevaluation of innovative, interactive computing solutions to address problems of interest in society;specific projects may address open problems in the fields of computer vision, pervasive computing, datavisualization, social networks, and serious games. The broader impact of this project lies in theopportunity to introduce talented students from underrepresented populations to computing research andin the potential to increase the enrollment of domestic students in doctoral computing programs.