Author: Kurt Luther
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Led Creativity & Cognition 2017 Graduate Student Symposium in Singapore
After much preparation, the Creativity & Cognition 2017 Graduate Student Symposium took place on June 27. The event was held at the National Gallery of Singapore. Dr. Luther and Dr. Elizabeth Churchill of Google co-chaired the event. Dr. Luther had to video conference in using Google Hangouts (see photo above) due to flight problems, but…
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Incite featured in VT News again
Coinciding with Independence Day, our Incite and Mapping the Fourth of July projects were again featured in VT News and on the university home page. The new press release covers the launch of our software and the accompanying exhibit on display in VT’s Newman Library throughout the month of July. Dr. Luther is quoted a couple…
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Paper accepted for HCOMP 2017
Our full paper on using crowdsourcing and diagramming to support image and video geolocation was accepted for the HCOMP 2017 conference in Québec City, Canada. Only 29% of paper submissions were accepted for this competitive crowdsourcing conference. Congrats to MS Computer Science alumna Rachel Kohler and BS Computer Science alumnus John Purviance, the first and…
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Debuted Civil War Photo Sleuth software in Gettysburg
Dr. Luther unveiled our new Civil War Photo Sleuth software to the public for the first time in historic Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The software uses crowdsourcing and face recognition to identify unknown people in photos from the American Civil War era. On Friday, Dr. Luther demonstrated the software at an invitation-only event for Civil War photography…
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Presented at Stanford HCI seminar
Dr. Luther presented the lab’s research on crowdsourced image geolocation and the GroundTruth project at Stanford University. He was an invited speaker for the Seminar on People, Computers, and Design hosted by the Stanford HCI Group. A video of the talk is available here.
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Rachel Kohler successfully defends MS thesis
Rachel Kohler, a computer science MS student advised by Dr. Luther, successfully defended her master’s thesis today. Rachel conducted interviews with geolocation experts that led to an accepted poster at the upcoming Collective Intelligence 2017 conference. She then led the development of GroundTruth, a software tool that uses crowdsourcing to support expert geolocators. She also conducted several…
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Panel accepted for American Historical Association 2018
Dr. Luther’s panel, titled “The Design, Development and Implementation of Funded Transdisciplinary Digital History Projects: Illustrative Cases of K-16 Collaboration in Action,” was accepted for the 132nd annual meeting of the American Historical Association, to be held January 4-7, 2018, in Washington, D.C. The panel will introduce two funded digital history projects, including Mapping the…
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Presented at 2017 ICAT Creativity & Innovation Day
The Crowd Lab was well represented at the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT) Creativity & Innovation Day, an annual event at VT full of demos, presentations, and artworks that represent the cutting-edge intersection of art, design, science, and engineering. We presented demos for five of our projects: Civil War Photo Sleuth, Connect the…
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Placed 1st and 3rd at undergrad research symposium
The Crowd Lab fared well at this year’s annual VTURCS (Virginia Tech Undergraduate Research in Computer Science) Spring Symposium. Civil War Photo Sleuth won first place, and Flud won third place, in the Faculty Choice Awards category. Over 30 projects were judged at the symposium, and the awards include a cash prize. Congratulations to Nam, Abby, David,…
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Presented at Carnegie Mellon crowdsourcing seminar
Dr. Luther presented the lab’s research on crowdsourced image geolocation and the GroundTruth project at Carnegie Mellon University. He was an invited speaker for the Crowdsourcing Lunch Seminar hosted by the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII).