Graphics & User Interfaces
The third-year PhD student is creating tools to help people with vision impairments navigate the world.
Lydia Chilton has won a 2025 Sloan Research fellowship, one of the most prestigious awards available to early-career faculty.
CS researchers had a strong showing at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023), with seven papers and two posters accepted.
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Computation is fundamentally changing the way people see and interact with the world. Many parts of society have been transformed by graphics and user interfaces.
The group has played instrumental roles in developing groundbreaking graphics for Hollywood movies, life-saving augmented and virtual reality applications in the medical field, camera phone technology used by billions of people, 3D printing technologies for consumers and industry uses, and AI tools that aid the computational design process. Additionally, they have a strong commitment to enabling computers to be used by all people regardless of ability.
The classes involve hands-on learning and help students develop a portfolio of projects that demonstrate their unique abilities and interests.
Computer-Enabled Abilities Laboratory 
Computer Vision and Graphics Center 
Columbia Computer Graphics Group 
Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Laboratory 
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