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

DevOps

AIM: The DevOps project aims to streamline the process of making data files readily available for the development teams to work on. DevOps, short for Development and Operations, is a collaborative approach that integrates development, testing, deployment, and operations processes to improve efficiency and reduce the time it takes to deliver software solutions. OBJECTIVE: The primary objective of the project is to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of data file… Read More »DevOps Project – Polis Center

Featured Program

Featured Training

Standardize Project Repositories and Presentation

Prepared by: Hasaranga Jayathilake, Supraja Pericherla & Prakashini Reddy Create a Repository as the template for the lab project. * If your project already has a polis-comet-lab repository, you do not need to follow this instruction part. 1. Go to https://github.iu.edu/polis-comet-lab/template 2. Click the “Use this template” green-coloured button. 3. Then select “Create a new repository” from the drop-down menu that comes from the Use this template. 4. Give the… Read More »Standardize Project Repositories and Presentation