Digital Humanities

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Digital Humanities focuses on the application of information and human-centered systems to literary, cultural, and artistic practices.

Faculty

James Caverlee, Assistant Professor  (Web-scale information management, distributed data-intensive systems, information retrieval, databases, and social computing)

Richard Furuta, Professor   (Digital libraries, hypertext systems and models, computer-human interaction, electronic publishing)

Andruid Kerne, Associate Professor   (Recombinant knowledge spaces, interface ecosystems, augmentation of creative process, wearable affective computing | Semiotics, time-based media, social interactivity, public installation, ambient media, sensor networks, cultural databases | Information visualization, human computer interaction, visual hypertext, distributed and embedded real-time and Internet architectures, machine learning)

Frank Shipman, Professor  (Intelligent user interfaces, hypertext, computers and education, multimedia, new media, computers and design, computer-human interaction, computer-supported cooperative work)

Projects

Center for the Study of Digital Libraries

combinFormation: Mixed-Initiative Information Composition

Interface Ecology Lab

(The) Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research

Teaching TEam Coordination with LOcation-aware Games

Courses

CSCE 436. Computer-Human Interaction. Comprehensive study of the Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) area; includes history and importance of CHI; CHI design theories; modeling of computer users and interfaces; empirical techniques for task analysis and interface design; styles of interaction and future directions of CHI including hypermedia and computer-supported collaborative work. Prerequisite: CSCE 315 or approval of instructor.

CSCE 470. Information Storage and Retrieval. Representation of, storage of and access to very large multimedia document collections; fundamental data structures and algorithms of current information storage and retrieval systems and relates various techniques to design and evaluation of complete retrieval systems. Prerequisite: CSCE 315 or approval of instructor.

CSCE 610. Hypertext/Hypermedia Systems. Comprehensive coverage of Hypertext/Hypermedia; basic concepts and definitions; fundamental components, architectures and models; problems and current solutions; design and implementation issues; and research issues. Prerequisites: CSCE 310 and 410.

CSCE 634. Intelligent User Interfaces. Intersection of artificial intelligence and computer-human interaction: emphasis on designing and evaluating systems that learn about and adapt to their users, tasks, and environments. Prerequisites: Graduate classification and approval of instructor.

CSCE 655. Human-Centered Systems and Information. A foundation course in human centered systems and information; understanding and conceptualizing interaction; design and prototyping methodologies; evaluation frameworks; visual design using color, space, layering, and media; information structuring and visualization; animation and games; individual and team programming projects. Prerequisite: Graduate classification or CSCE 436 or 444 or approval of instructor.

CSCE 667. Collaborative Systems and Models. Collaborative systems support group activities over computer networks; emphasis on human factors, system design is different from traditional systems; overviews existing research efforts to address various design issues; state-of-the-art knowledge and how to implement collaborative applications. Prerequisites: CSCE 310 or 603, 313 or 611, a program language (C++/JAVA) and CSCE 436 or 671 or 672 or approval of instructor and graduate classification.

CSCE 670. Information Storage and Retrieval. Representation, storage, and access to very large multimedia document collections; fundamental data structures and algorithms of information storage and retrieval systems; techniques to design and evaluate complete retrieval systems, including cover of algorithms for indexing, compressing, and querying very large collections. Prerequisites: CSCE 310 or 603 or approval of instructor; graduate classification.

CSCE 671. Computer-Human Interaction. Comprehensive coverage of Computer-human Interaction (CHI) including history, importance, design theories, and future direction; modeling computer users and interfaces, empirical techniques for task analysis and interface design, and styles of interaction. Prerequisites: Graduate classification.

CSCE 672. Computer Supported Collaborative Work. Covers design, implementation and use of technical systems that support people working cooperatively; draws from the research area of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and includes current theoretical, practical, technical and social issues in CSCW and future directions of the field. Prerequisite: CSCE 671 or 610 or approval of instructor.

CSCE 675. Digital Libraries. Surveys current research and practice in Digital Libraries, which seek to provide intellectual access to large-scale, distributed digital information repositories; current readings from the research literature which covers the breadth of this interdisciplinary area of study. Prerequisite: graduate classification in computer science.