Jordan Hu College of Science and Liberal Arts

Voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and Apple Siri now have the ears of an estimated 142 million users in the United States, but just how much we trust and listen to AI assistants for daily information may come down to how much we identify with them personality-wise. That’s the takeaway from a study led by researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Penn State University examining the impact of voice assistant (VA) personalities on user engagement and decision-making. The study — published in the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies — has revealed that users...

A new committee aims to accelerate gender equity among faculty members at New Jersey Institute of Technology. The Women Faculty Advisory Committee, chaired by Nancy Steffen-Fluhr, will hold peer forums to examine key issues based on the testimony of junior faculty members. It also intends to poll women faculty to gather quantitative data. Both will fuel an action plan and create a foundation for measuring progress toward faculty gender diversity.  Women are particularly underrepresented among full-time faculty at NJIT, most starkly at the level of professor, where they represent...

Two NJIT undergrads and an alumnus have landed prestigious awards from the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists (NJ-SPJ) for their outstanding contributions to the university’s student newspaper, The Vector. Albert Dorman Honors students Mrunmayi Joshi ’25, Yukthi Sangoi ’24 and Ethan O'Malley ’23 were announced winners in the NJ-SPJ’s 2023 Excellence in Journalism Contest, which “recognizes the best coverage of the Garden State by outlets in New Jersey, New York City and Philadelphia.” Each were feted by the Society during its recent award ceremony in Lyndhurst, N.J. Joshi, a...

Researchers at NJIT and Universidad Carlos III of Madrid wanted to know if mixed-reality games could be improved by handing control to artificial intelligence software in the form of conversational language applications — it turns out they can, but the results may put players in danger. The question stems from an annual Halloween tradition of serious-yet-silly experiments by Assistant Professor Niccolo Pescetelli, of NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts humanities department, researcher Manuel Cebrian of Carlos III de Madrid’s statistics department and Santander Big Data Institute,...