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General ItemYoung children, parents needed for AI and storytime study Date: Jun 21, 2026 -
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Brendan David-John receives CAREER award to study how virtual reality influences human behavior , articleThe five-year award from the National Science Foundation will fund research into how immersive technologies affect decision-making, spending, and privacy as well as how policy and technical interventions can protect users.
Date: May 26, 2026 - -
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A video game is helping improve Marine Corps training , articleResearchers from the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech and the University of Memphis recently deployed a program that leverages a modified version of the 2007 game, “Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare,” at Marine Corps University in Quantico.
Date: May 18, 2026 - -
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Joseph L. Gabbard awarded Hal G. Prillaman Professorship , articleA professor of industrial and systems engineering, Gabbard is a leader in virtual and augmented reality research.
Date: May 11, 2026 - -
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AI models lean on autism stereotypes when giving social advice, new study finds , articleResearchers tested six major large language models, including GPT-4, Claude, Llama, Gemini, and DeepSeek, using thousands of social advice scenarios. They found that disclosing autism often shifted the models’ recommendations toward stereotypical assumptions about autistic people being introverted, obsessive, socially awkward, or uninterested in romance.
Date: Apr 16, 2026 - -
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New study examines AI solution to leadership communication gaps , articleCan artificial intelligence-mediated conversations build interpersonal skills and improve confidence at work? Computer science researchers want to find out through CommCoach.
Date: Mar 23, 2026 - -
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Ryan McMahan named Center for Human-Computer Interaction director, steps into mentor's shoes , articleA longtime mentoring relationship comes full circle as McMahan '04, MS. '07, Ph.D. '11 succeeds Doug Bowman and carries the center’s interdisciplinary mission forward.
Date: Jan 28, 2026 - -
Video ItemEngineering students show ‘magical powers’ in virtual reality , video
It looks like something out of a movie but Virginia Tech researchers demonstrate how magical powers inspired by popular culture can happen in virtual reality. Doug A. Bowman, the Frank J. Maher Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Center for Human-Computer Interaction (CHCI) and Run Yu, graduate research assistant in CHCI develop a gesture-based interaction technique to drive physics-based movement of an object.
Date: Oct 08, 2018 -