Erin Treacy Solovey

Erin Treacy Solovey is an associate professor of computer science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Her research expertise is in human-computer interaction and human-AI interaction, with a focus on modalities such as touch, gestures, augmented reality, and physiological signals, often applying machine learning methods to develop intelligent interfaces that respond to a person’s needs. She also investigates improving information accessibility for deaf individuals as well as effective human interaction with complex and autonomous systems and vehicles.

Solovey’s project at Radcliffe is at the intersection of human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence (AI), and neuroscience, aiming to leverage recent advancements in brain-computer interfaces to sense a user’s changing cognitive state in real time in real-world contexts. This can improve human-AI collaboration by enabling intelligent system behavior to be responsive to the individual’s changing cognitive state.

Solovey received her bachelor’s degree in computer science from Harvard College and her MS and PhD in computer science from Tufts University. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Humans and Automation Laboratory and CSAIL. She serves as the deputy editor of the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies and an associate editor for ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. She also regularly serves on such program committees as the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) and was appointed to the National Academies Panel on Assessment of Humans in Complex Systems. Her research is funded by the National Science Foundation, and she has received several awards, including a Computing Innovation Fellowship.