Congratulations, UX Students!

Congratulations to all authors for receiving the best student paper award in the Impact of Anxiety on Reading Behaviour : An Exploratory Eye-Tracking Study at the 2024 New England chapter of Association of Information Systems (NEAIS) conference.

NEAIS 2024 at WPI!

At NEAIS 2024, PhD student Doaa Alrefaei presented two impactful studies. Her first study on anxiety and reading behavior used eye-tracking to uncover distinct attention patterns in anxious readers, suggesting eye movements as potential biomarkers for anxiety. Her second study applied the UXDI framework to design a Clinical Decision Support System for chronic pain management, emphasizing an intuitive, user-centered dashboard to enhance healthcare decision-making.

10th Anniversary NSF-NRT annual meeting

The 10th annual meeting of NSF's National Research Traineeship program was held in Washington D.C. between Oct 21-23, 2024. WPI Business School PhD candidate, Gaayathri Sankar, attended and presented at the meeting as a trainee from WPI's Future of Robots in the Workplace-Research & Development (FORW-RD) program.

Complete your PhD in UX at WPI!

The UX PhD at WPI Business School (WBS) is part of the Information Technology (IT) research program. The UX PhD program prepares students to become leading-edge experts in their desired academic and/or industry career paths.

UMass Workshop

Congratulations, UX Students!

Congratulations to Javad and Fatima for receiving the best paper award in the Augmented Cognition track at the 2021 Human Computer Interaction International (HCII) conference.

New UXDM Lab: Grand Opening Scheduled!

To expand its investigations in designing and developing smart and connected product/service experiences, the UXDM lab is moving to WB 333.

The first successful PhD completion at Foisie Business School

Congratulations to Mina Shojaeizadeh for being the first student to successfully complete her PhD from Foisie Business Scool. She did her research at UXDM Lab where Prof. Soussan Djamasbi was her advisor and mentor. Her research was in the area of Automatic Detection of Cognitive Load and User’s Age Using a Machine Learning Eye Tracking System.

UX Symposium 2018

The second annual User Experience Symposium (UXSYM) was held on April 19, 2018, by the WPI UXDM Lab.The event featured workshops and speakers from leading UX designers and researchers from companies including Dell, Oracle, Dyn, Google, and Fidelity. In addition, the UXDM lab unveiled and presented new research and innovation in UX.

GRIE 2018

Congratulations to Christopher J Chagnon and Prateek Jain for participating at GRIE 2018 held on April 24, 2018. Chris presented the poster on Gamification: Incentives and Rewards in ITSM and won the second place. Prateek presented the poster on Impact of Social Media on Buying Behavior Using Augmented Reality.

UXDM Lab Tours 2018

UXDM Lab is conducting lab tours for accepted WPI students.The first session was conducted today April 4, 2o18.Lab team members Prateek Jain, Kodey Converse, Ryan Lamarche and Isha Srivastava demonstrated various user experience ongoing projects such as Eye Tracking, Gaming and Augmented Reality. Two more tours are available on April 11, 2018, and April 18, 2018.

UXDM Lab is hosting UX Symposium

Update (March 20, 2018): Due to a forecasted snow storm, we have to postpone the 2nd annual Symposium at WPI from March 21, 2018 to April 19, 2018. UXSYM is a conference hosted by the User Experience and Decision Making Laboratory at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. This one day event features speakers and workshop sessions that focus on innovating with user experience. To know more about the event follow the link: https://uxdm.wpi.edu/symposium

UXDM Lab in WPI Seaport Event

UXDM team was invited to showcase there research and project at the grand opening of WPI seaport event. The event was held on January 31, 2018. Various project and research work such as Augmented Reality, Cognitive Load, Face Detection were depicted by the team and got appreciation by the audience.

INFORMS Computing Annual Meeting 2017

Congrats to Wen for attending the conference presentation “New Density-based Optimization Formulations And Algorithms To Identify Fixations In Gaze Data“INFORMS Annual Meeting held in Houston, TX, October 2017.

AMCIS 2017

Congratulations to Chris for the acceptance of his paper “Creating a Decision Support System for Service Classification and Assignment through Optimization,” Chagnon, C.J., Trapp, A.C., and Djamasbi, S. (2017) at 23rdAmericas Conference on Information System (AMCIS), August 2017, Boston, MA. Congratulations to Mina for the acceptance of her paper “Task Condition and Pupillometry,” Shojaeizadeh, M.*, Djamasbi, S., Chen, P., & Rochford, J. (2017) at the same event.

Eureka 2017

Girls Inc. Eureka is a year-round, 5-year STEM-based program that engages and empowers 8th – 12th-grade girls. The Eureka event was held on July 14, 2017, by the Dell EMC at WPI. In this one-day event, Girls Inc. of Worcester and UXDM team showcased their User Experience projects and research work to high school students to motivate them to learn and innovate in the field of User Design and Development.

HCII 2017

Congratulations to Mina for the acceptance of her paper “Text Simplification and Pupillometry”, Shojaeizadeh M., Djamasbi S.* , Chen P., and Rochford J.,(2017), Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, Applications of Augmented Cognition.at 11th international conference, HCI International, 2017, Vancouver, Canada, July 9-14. Congratulations to Prateek for the acceptance of his paper “Effect of Social Media Product Reviews on Buying Decision When Presented in Augmented Reality” at the same conference. Congratulations to Wen for the acceptance of her paper “Measuring focused attention using fixation inner density “at the same conference.

INFORMS Computing Society Conference 2017

Congrats to Wen for attending the conference presentation “Using Density to Identify Fixations in Gaze Data: Optimization-Based Formulations and Algorithms” INFORMS Computing Society Conference Meeting held in Austin, TX, January 2017.

UX Symposium 2017

The first annual User Experience Symposium (UXSYM) was held on April 13, 2017, by the WPI UXDM Lab. The event featured workshops and speakers from leading UX designers and researchers from companies including Dell, Dyn, Google, and Fidelity. In addition, the UXDM lab unveiled and presented new research and innovation in UX.

UXDM Lab is hosting UX Symposium

UXSYM is a conference hosted by the User Experience and Decision Making Laboratory at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. This one day event features speakers and workshop sessions that focus on innovating with user experience.

GRIE 2017

Congratulations to Christopher J Chagnon and Mina Shojaeizadeh for participating and winning in the final rounds at GRIE 2017. Chris presented the poster on Automating IT A Decision Support System for Automating Service Classification and Assignment and won the first place. Mina presented the poster on Text Simplification and Eye Tracking and won the honorable mention prize and people’s choice award.

UXDM Lab in UMass Medical News

UXDM Lab is working with Shriver Center, IBM and UMass Boston on a project to develop cognitive computing and natural language processing capabilities of IBM Watson to automatically simplify text. The result of this project will benefit people with intellectual disabilities. Click here to read full UMass Medical News.

UXPA 2016

UX & Predictive ROI: Measuring the impact of user experience on growth and return on investment is essential in making a business case and allocating resources to develop or redesign experiences within a company. Thus, examining factors that can impact the return on investment of web design are of great importance to companies. In this talk, we propose a basic model that provides a scientific framework for predicting the business value of a web design, and review the initial test of our model via an experiment using an actual live website in a Fortune 500 company.

GRIE 2016

Congratulations to Mina Shojaeizadeh (Detecting Cognitive Load Through Eye-Movements: A Machine Learning Approach) for making into final round at GRIE 2016! Influence of Graphically Presented Reviews on Product Purchasing (Amazon), co-authored with Neehar Munke (MSIT) and Feiyi Wang (DS), Winner of the first prize in the Business and Social Science division, GRIE 2016, WPI, April 2016. Zijing Zhang, Minal Goyal, and Daiyang Hu (The Role of Expiration Dates in Grocery Shopping Behavior: An Eye Tracking Investigation) participated at GRIE 2016! Wen Liu (Density-Centric Fixation Detection in Gaze Data: Optimization-Based Formulations and Algorithms) participated at GRIE 2016.

AMCIS 2016

Congratulations to John Wyatt for the acceptance of his paper “User Experience of Enterprise Social Networks and Collaboration” at AMCIS 2016 Djamasbi, S., Wyatt, J. Traietti, M. (2016) User Experience of Enterprise Social Networks and Collaboration, AMCIS, as well as presentation at UXPA Boston 2016 “UX and Predictive ROI”

HCII 2016

Congratulations to Mina and UMASS MQP team (Abi, Jen, Tyler, and Kayla) for the acceptance of their paper “Text Simplification and User Experience” at HCII 2016 Djamasbi, S., Rochford, J., DaBoll-Lavoie, A., Greff, T.,Lally, J., & Kayla McAvoy (2016). Text Simplification and User Experience. HCI International (HCII). Congrat to Mina for the acceptance of another paper “Density of gaze points within a fixation and information processing behavior “ at HCII 2016 Shojaeizadeh M.**, Djamasbi S, Trapp A.C., (2016) Density of gaze points within a fixation and information processing behavior, In proceedings of 2016 HCI international conference. Berlin: Springer-Verlag

ICIS 2015

Congratulations to Mina for the acceptance of her paper “Shojaeizadeh, M.**, Djamasbi, S., Trapp, A. (2015) Does Pupillary Data Differ During Fixations and Saccades? Does it Carry Information About Task Demand” at ICIS 2016

GRAD, i3 & AMCIS 2014

Congratulations to Jing, Wenting, and Zaozao for their success at GRIE competition. Congratulations to Zijing for her success at GRIE competition. and to John, Anny, and Haoran for their first publication at a prestigious IS conference. Jing Bian, Wenting Li and Zaoao Liu(The Social View of Videos and Engagement Behavior), and Zijing Zhang (Does What You “See” Matter?) make it to the final rounds of the GRIE competition!

GRIE 2014

1.Finalist in the Business and Social Science division: Does Bullet Screen Provide a Better Viewer Experience? co-authored with Jing Bian(MSIT), WentingLi (MSMTI), YunjieYang (MSMTI), Zaozao Liu (MSIT), GRIE 2014, WPI, December 2014. 2. Using Gaze as an Input in Game Experience, co-authored with Siavash Mortazavi (IMGD ), GRIE 2014, WPI, December 2014. 3. Does What You See Matter?—Eye Tracking Metrics in Decision Making, co-authored with Zijing Zhang (MSMTI), GRIE 2014, WPI, December 2014.

GRAD Day

March 2014 was a yet another very productive time for the UXDM lab with four graduate research projects. Congratulations to all of the students involved in these research projects for a job well done: Gaze as Input: A New Way to Play Games Seyed Siavash Mortazavi (IMGD), Advisor: Professor Djamasbi Value in The Use of Augmented Reality in Print Communication John Wyatt (MSIT ), Xue Luan (MSIT), Haoran Wang (MSIT), Advisor: Professor Djamasbi Does Time Pressure Impact the Mouse Movement of Online Shopping? Mahathi Vaduguru (MSIT), Yuying Xu (MSMTI), Advisors: Professors Djamasbi and Purvi Shah Do Banner Ads affect the Engagement in a Mobile Game? Divya Shivakumar (MSIT), Jingmin Qiu (MSMTI), Advisors: Professors Hall Phillips and Djamasbi

WPI’s UXDM Lab in the News!

On November 12, UXDM lab held an open house which featured some of the current and past projects and the lab’s high-tech tools. The story was also covered by Worcester Gazette (WPI Lab Tracks Consumer Web Habits), WPI Research Magazine (Good Design is in the Eye of the Beholder), and the Daily Herd (UXDM Open House). The story was also covered in the Chanel 3 news (http://youtu.be/78uXQVvopSE).

GRAD Day

March 2013 was a very productive time for the UXDM lab with four graduate research projects for WPI’s 2013 Graduate Research Achievement Day (GRAD), and one undergraduate research project for HDI Innovatin Showcase.