Research
Our Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) students take part in innovative research that directly impacts how the world uses and experiences technology and information systems. And HCI research opportunities only continue to grow as technology becomes more pervasive each and every day.
Led by our world-class faculty, you will conduct HCI and usability research that spans across multiple disciplines to include such areas as computing, communication, robotics/android science, biomedical systems and devices, human and social sciences and much more.
Above all else, your research will:
- Explore new forms of user-centered design using informatics principles of cognition, communication, representation and computation;
- Identify and test the nature and parameters of human information processing;
- And shape the design of technologies that support human interpretation and use.
You’ll also have access to state-of-the-art facilities to support your research endeavors, including:
- M.A.R.L.A. – a Media Arts Research and Learning Arcade created to increase and improve media and interactive arts education and research. M.A.R.L.A. provides a learning space where faculty and students can collaborate on serious and casual game design and usability research.
- U.S.E.R. – a User Simulation and Experience Research Lab developed as a research space for School of Informatics faculty and students. The goal of U.S.E.R. is to provide a breeding ground for interdisciplinary and collaborative research.
We encourage you to contact us directly to discuss potential research endeavors and to find out more information about the projects in which our faculty and students are currently engaged.
The following are non-exhaustive samples of ongoing research taking place at the School of Informatics:
- Computerized Education to Prevent Hypoglycemia When Driving
- A Design Framework for Aural Interactive Applications
- Advancing the Systematic Evaluation of Web Semiotics
- Enhancing the Usability of Web Bioinformatics Resources
- Patient Hand-Off Tool
- Medical Information Visualization Assistant System
- Collaborative Cancer Control Initiative: A Web Portal for Linking IUCC Patients, Clinicians, and Researchers
- Cultural cognitive style and web design: Beyond a behavioral inquiry of computer-mediated communication
