We always have a range of opportunities to become involved in our laboratory and projects. We welcome visitors as well as collaborations with other institutions, and are happy to talk to anyone about how they can contribute. We particularly have a long history of working with M.S. and B.S. students, many of whom have made critical contributions to our projects.
The following represents some of the ideas we plan to pursue in the near future. Please feel free to contact us, whether pertaining to these ideas or a new project or idea that you have in mind.
Chatbots
- Help run an experiment and perform data analysis of results for Sayme, a chatbot that assists developers in coordinating their programming work.
- Design a voice-based interface to an electronic whiteboard sketching tool.
- Research existing technologies for sketch recognition and implement a prototype as the basis for a design chatbot.
- Develop a machine learning approach to distinguish good versus not good bug reports being submitted to GitHub.
- Design and develop a chatbot that helps students learn a new API by presenting increasingly sophisticated examples mined from GitHub.
KnoCap
- Develop multi-modal tools to collect important design bits from conversations through lightweight interactions (e.g., tactile buttons and short voice commands).
- Develop voice-based interfaces to remind designers about past design conversations. (e.g., Alexa, Google Home, and Cortana skills).
- Develop sketching tools that integrate lightweight visualizations of important design bits.
- Conduct qualitative analysis of design meetings to classify information that developers need.
- Augment electronic whiteboard software sketching tool with novel features such as lasso, copy-paste, scraps, collaborative sketching, etc.