Three USC Schools Collaborate to Reimagine the LA River
Researchers in landscape architecture, fluid mechanics and augmented reality have created an interactive hydraulic model installed alongside the Los Angeles River.
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Institute for Creative Technologies News Back to News Archive
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A Game-Changer in Combating Sexual Assault in the Armed Forces
How a Collaborative Effort at USC ICT Redefines Sexual Assault Training to Improve Victim Advocacy in the Military
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“Battle Buddy:” Revolutionizing Mental Health for Veterans
USC develops a non-judgmental, virtual companion who is available 24/7 to support veterans with mental health and suicide prevention
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USC Computer Science Named the Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
The department will be housed in the new LEED-Platinum certified building, the Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Human-Centered Computation Hall.
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VR will change the way we train for active shooter incidents
Immersive virtual environments provide healthcare workers with a highly effective method to prepare for emergencies.
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“Attention is All You Need”: New Ph.D.s Urged to Attend to “Challenges of Earth’s Eight Billion People.”
The 2023 Ph.D. Hooding and Awards Ceremony honors 133 new graduates and Jiaoyang Li, winner of this year’s best Ph.D. thesis.
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Can AI Teach Your Child Perseverance?Â
Postdoc Scholar Emmanuel Johnson is part of a team receiving a $20M National Science Foundation grant to research AI-augmented learning.
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Let’s Make a Deal: How Emotion-Aware AI Agents Help Negotiations
USC Viterbi Ph.D. student Kushal Chawla teaches AI how to negotiate with emotional awareness
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34 new hires, including the new biomedical engineering chair, join for fall and spring semesters
USC Viterbi New Faculty Hires 2022-2023
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From Cell Phones to Siri – Most of Your Favorite Tech Can Be Traced Back to ISI
USC’s Information Sciences Institute, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, has played a pivotal role in the development of most of the tech you use every day.
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“Do Better Than Us”: Three Years of USC Viterbi Ph.D.s Receive Their Hoods.
At the 2022 Ph.D. Hooding and Awards Ceremony, 215 new graduates join Trojan forebears like Andrew Viterbi and Wanda Austin.
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Could distributive classrooms increase diversity in AI?
Emmanuel Johnson (’21) receives CRA Computing Innovation Fellows award for post-doctoral research on collaboration in a distance-learning world.
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Randy Hill’s Army Service Ended in 1984. He Still Serves Veterans — With AI, Graphics and VR
Professor Hill reflects on service, storytelling and his favorite virtual human to fight PTSD
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Can A.I. Help Low-Income Workers Get Jobs?
New partnership with the U.S. government brings artificial intelligence-based interview training to communities around the country
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Improving Human-Computer Conversations From Camp Site Negotiations
Researchers from ICT and ISI devise CaSiNo, a scenario-based dataset for teaching negotiation.
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What Might Sheep and Driverless Cars Have in Common? Following the Herd.
Researchers Show How Social Component of Moral Decision-making Can Influence Programming of Autonomous Vehicles and Other Technologies
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Building Trust between Construction Workers and Construction Robots
How virtual reality can help robots change the face of the construction industry.
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When Bots Do the Negotiating, Humans More Likely to Engage in Deceptive Techniques
Series of studies reveal conditions under which humans more likely to act deceptively through virtual intermediaries
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USC Viterbi Listed Again Among the Nation’s Top 10 Engineering Graduate Programs
Annual rankings by U.S. News & World Report also keep USC Viterbi among the top five private engineering schools
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Can a Building Help Thwart The Next Active Shooter?
Researchers have designed a virtual environment to test how building features in schools and offices help or hurt occupants during active shooter incidents.
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Do We Trust Artificial Intelligence Agents to Mediate Conflict? Not EntirelyÂ
New study says we’ll listen to virtual agents except when goings get tough
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Everywhere at Once
Two apps created by USC Viterbi Research Professor Ari Shapiro allow users to create digital avatars of themselves to improve communication.
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“Deep Fakes”: Researchers Develop Forensic Techniques to Identify Tampered Videos
USC computer scientists find movement is key to spot manipulated content
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Robotics and American Sign Language
USC Viterbi research team develops technology that may help deaf children better learn sign language
