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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Revealing Educational Trends: Outlier Analysis of SAVI Data for School Corporations (25) and Counties (12) Using R.  Introduction Our project aims to detect outliers in a dataset containing educational health indicators for school corporations and counties over multiple years for SAVI and Evansville datasets. Using robust statistical techniques, we seek to uncover insights into public health trends and educational impacts. The dataset includes records with year, geography, and indicator information,… Read More »SAVI Outlier Analysis Using R 

Featured Program

Featured Training

Wireframing and Information Architecture

April 18 – This training will cover the overview of effective wireframing and information architecture techniques, their importance and tools that you can use while performing these activities. Details: At 12:00pm, April 18, 2023, IT 414 Open to all.