School of Computing

Dr. Olivia Nche accepts a teaching position at Presbyterian College

Dr. Olivia Mambo Nche, originally from Cameroon, Africa, is interested in instructional technology and innovative ways of teaching programming to young learners. She graduated from the School of Computing at Clemson University with her Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing in Summer 2021. Her dissertation involved designing and experimenting with a video game aimed at teaching basic programming concepts to K-12 students. […]

Freeman Receives NSF HCC Grant

Dr. Guo Freeman, Assistant Professor of Human-Centered Computing, receives a $399,785 HCC Small grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). This three-year project investigates how people experience harassment in new and potentially disruptive ways in nuanced online social spaces to design novel and safer social technologies to protect them, promote trust among users, and mitigate emerging online risks.

Former Clemson Computing student Michael Payne promoted to Lead Data Engineer

Michael Payne has been promoted to Lead Data Engineer on the Tickets Data Engineering team at Cirium. Michael will continue to be a contributor on the team but will take on additional responsibilities in people management and team organization. Michael holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, an M.S. in Computer Science from North Carolina A&T University.  He was recruited into the Ph.D. program in Computer Science at Clemson in 2013, where he worked under the direction of Dr. Amy Apon.

Playing this game helps to reduce bias in society

Clemson Computing and Communication researchers aim to Reduce race and gender bias through diverse representation in videogames Clemson researchers have developed a short 2D videogame with an important societal purpose. The research by recent Human-Centered Computing Ph.D. graduate Marie Jarrell and co-authors Reza Ghaiumy Anaraky, Dr. Bart Knijnenburg, and Dr. Erin Ash demonstrates how changing […]

It is Time to Make Technology More Older-Adult-Friendly

Clemson researchers demonstrate important differences in online privacy decision-making between older and younger adults Despite the vast benefits technology can provide to older adults, older adults’ tech usage is–by far–below other populations. The popular opinion is that they are not tech-savvy and cannot keep up with the fast-paced of technology. Researchers at the School of […]