COMET Lab

COnvergent Media and Exploratory Technologies

COMET Lab is an applied research laboratory in the Department of Human-Centered Computing, Luddy School of Informatics and Computing at IUI, where faculty and students work together to deliver web, mobile and interactive media solutions for a range of projects. These include projects submitted by units from the IUI campus, external organizations and the community at large.

COMET News

The Fall 2025 COMET Lab is Here!

Welcome back for the Fall 2025 Semester!  There are about 40 returning students this semester and an additional 10 have requested to be added to the lab. The department tells me to expect about 60 students this time, which is fewer than last year’s cohort, but still a good number! I’ve done some reorganization to the working groups and divided them up into 6 project areas: There will be several… Read More »The Fall 2025 COMET Lab is Here!

COMET Events

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Fall 2025 Organizational Meeting

The organizational meeting for the Fall 2025 COMET Lab is Tuesday, August 26 @ 11:00 am. This is a Zoom meeting for representatives from the working groups. Check your email for the link. The first COMET Lab General Meeting will be Tuesday, Sept. 2 @ 11:00am. The meeting will be in Room IT 414 and on Zoom.

Featured Project

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This project is conducting user testing for the SAVI-Evansville project for Polis Center and the Evansville Wellborn Foundation. The SAVI-Evansville project website launched March 2023. The user testing work will include the initial user test, analysis of the results, and the test report. Project Link: https://savi.growcapacity.info Go to Teams Channel.

Featured Program

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The COMET Lab is developing Training Programs to develop skills we need, augment academic courses, and provide experiential learning. Learn more…

Featured Training

Data-Science-Team-1

Prepared by: Hasaranga Jayathilake This page serves as a guide to the essential housekeeping tasks required within the Data Science team. An overview of the administrative duties expected of Data Analysts and UX Researchers is provided to ensure smooth project progress. Assignments to various projects are made based on available working hours within the COMET Lab. Each project is managed by a Project Manager; if a Project Manager is unavailable,… Read More »Work Management : Data Science Team