Essays
Bridging Engineering and Medicine: Improving Health Outcomes Through Wearable Technology
Aleena Imran is a dual-degree graduate in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering from USC, and was Commencement Speaker for...
HCI International Conference Accepts FIVE Papers from ICT’s Human-Centered AI Lab
BYLINE: Dr. Ning Wang, Director, Human-Centered AI Lab, USC ICT I am proud to share that the Human-Centered AI Lab at USC's Institute for Creative...
Language Models with Body Language: Advancing Gesture Selection for Virtual Humans
As part of our summer research series, spotlighting early-career scientists advancing the frontiers of human–AI interaction, we’re pleased to share...
Investigating Emotional Reasoning and Appraisal Bias in LLMs
BYLINE: Ala N. Tak, PhD Candidate, Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Assistant, Affective Computing Group As a PhD candidate...
On Understanding Humans Through Machines: A Journey into Multimodal Affective Computing
Kevin Hyekang Joo is an AI researcher at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (USC ICT), and a PhD student in the Thomas Lord Department of...
Designing With Empathy in the Age of AI
BYLINE: —Kaelyn Ellison, Graduate Student, DePaul University, HCI Researcher & Design Intern, USC ICT If you had told me a few years ago that...
Bridging Play + Purpose Via Human-Centered AI
ICT is running a series of articles to highlight the work of our Undergraduate Researchers. In this essay we hear from Jaehyuk Choi, who is working...
Navigating the Human Machine: Engineering, Design, and Decision-Making
Dr. Deniz Marti joined USC ICT in March 2023, after a postdoctoral Pedagogy Fellowship at Harvard University, and will take up her first faculty...
Honoring 250 Years of the U.S. Army
By Dr. Randall W. Hill, Jr, Vice Dean, Viterbi School of Engineering, Omar B. Milligan Professor in Computer Science (Games and Interactive Media),...