- Advanced Interaction Group
United Kingdom
University of Birmingham
- AIM Research Group
English
United States, Washington, Seattle
Jacob O. Wobbrock
2010-01-17
University of Washington
wobbrock@uw.edu
The AIM Research Group at the University of Washington comprises Ph.D. students in Information Science and Computer
Science working with Dr. Jacob O. Wobbrock on accessibility, interaction, and mobility within the field of Human-Computer
Interaction (HCI). Our goal is to make information more accessible to constrained users or users in constraining
situations.
- Alexandria Digital Library
United States, California, Santa Barbara
- Apple HI Alumni Directory
United States, Minnesota, Minneapolis
Tom Erickson
1998-06-07
snowfall@acm.org
A directory of former & current Apple HI folk.
- Aviz - Visual Analytics Project
English
France, Orsay
Jean-Daniel Fekete
2007-10-27
INRIA
Jean-Daniel.Fekete@inria.fr
Aviz is a multidisciplinary project of INRIA Futurs aiming at improving the analysis and
visualization of large and complex datasets by combining analysis methods with interactive
visualizations.
- Bay Area Usability Testing Lab - Interface Analysis Associations
United States, California, San Jose
Anthony D. Andre
1998-08-28
andre@interface-analysis.com
A configurable usability testing and design research facility.
- Belgian Laboratory of Computer-Human Interaction (BCHI)
Belgium, Louvain-la-Neuve
Jean Vanderdonckt
2002-12-07
Universite catholique de Louvain
bchi@isys.ucl.ac.be
The Belgian Laboratory of Computer-Human Interaction (BCHI) conducts
research, development, and consulting services in the domain of user interface
engineering, a domain between software engineering,
human-computer interaction, and usability engineering.
- Berkeley Institute of Design
English
United States, California, Berkeley
2007-01-08
University of California, Berkeley
- Brown HCI
United States, Rhode Island, Providence
Jeff Huang
2015-08-11
Brown University
- Captology: The Study of Computers as Persuasive Technologies
United States, California, Stanford
BJ Fogg
1998-08-17
Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab
bjfogg@stanford.edu
a clearinghouse for information on technologies designed to change
attitudes and behaviors.
The Persuasive Technology Lab investigates the theory, design, and analysis
of computers as persuasive technologies (an area we call "captology").
- Center for Human Computer Interaction
United States, Pennsylvania, University Park
John M. Carroll
2007-09-18
Penn State
- Center for Human-Computer Interaction (CHCI)
United States, Virginia, Blacksburg
Doug A. Bowman
Virginia Tech
- Centre for HCI Design
United Kingdom, London
Panayiotis Zaphiris
2003-03-15
City University
zaphiri@soi.city.ac.uk
- Child Computer Interaction Group
United Kingdom, England, Preston
Janet Read
2003-12-04
University of Central Lancashire
jcread@uclan.ac.uk
The group is primarily concerned with research relating to the design and evaluation of
interactive artifacts for children. Themes include interface design, novel interaction
technologies, usability testing, evaluation paradigms, and educational applications.
- Cognitive Engineering Research Group (CERG)
Australia, Queensland, Brisbane
Penelope Sanderson
2002-08-25
The University of Queensland
psanderson@humanfactors.uq.edu.au
Taming complexity: Australia's principal university-based cognitive engineering research group.
- Cognitive Ergonomics Laboratory
Italian
Italy, Rome
Francesco Di Nocera
2004-11-09
University of Rome "La Sapienza"
francesco.dinocera@uniroma1.it
- Cognitive Systems Engineering Laboratory
United States, Ohio, Columbus
David D. Woods
Ohio State University
smith.131@osu.edu
- Communications Research Group
United Kingdom
University of Nottingham
- Computer Graphics and HCI
Germany
University of Oldenburg
- Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Lab
United States, New York, New York
Columbia University
- CREW: Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work
United States, Michigan, Ann Arbor
Judy Olson
1998-06-26
University of Michigan
jsolson@umich.edu
Multidisciplinary research group conducting work on technology
support for face-to-face and remote work.
- CRUC - Center of Research in Ubiquitous Computing
English
Pakistan, Karachi
Zubair A. Shaikh
2009-11-02
FAST National University of Computer & Emerging Sc.
zubair.shaikh@nu.edu.pk
Low cost, efficient ubiquitous computing research in 3rd world countries. Identifying
issues related to cultural diversity, provenance and collaborative work environments and
context aware rich environments.
- CURE - Center for Usability Research & Engineering
Austria, Vienna
Manfred Tscheligi
2005-06-06
CURE - Center for Usability Research & Engineering
cure@cure.at
CURE plays an active role in defining and
developing Usability Research. CURE applies the potential of Usability Engineering to
complex real world situations that are at the leading edge of technological and
application innovation.
- Data Visualization Research Lab
United States, New Hampshire, Durham
2000-08-29
University of New Hampshire
colinw@cisunix.unh.edu
Lab devoted to Human-Computer Interaction and interactive data visualization
- Design Of Learning, Collaboration and Experience
United States, Pennsylvania, University Park
Chris Hoadley
2005-10-13
Penn State University
hcibib@tophe.net
The dolcelab studies the design of human learning and collaboration in relation to technology.
- Digital Interaction Group, Culture Lab, Newcastle University
English
United Kingdom, Newcastle upon Tyne
2014-08-23
Newcastle University
p.l.olivier@ncl.ac.uk
DIG is an HCI and ubiquitous computing research group of the School of Computing Science at Newcastle
University (UK). DIG is currently based in Culture Lab. Established in 2006, the group is formed of a core
team of around sixty academics, postdoctoral and PhD researchers. DIG's work is focused on the
experience-centred, participatory design of innovative digital technology. The group aims to conduct cross
disciplinary research that incorporates the skills and knowledge brought to the group by researchers from an
array disciplinary perspectives includes computer science, electronics, health studies, fine arts, social
gerontology, psychology, electronic engineering, sociology, education and design.
- Digital Media Lab
English
Iran, Tehran
Hamid R. Rabiee
2011-04-16
Department of Computer Engineering - Sharif University of Technology
zolghadr@dml.ir
The mission of the DML is to perform innovative research in the areas of: Multimedia Systems, Complex Networks,
Overlay/P2P and Wireless Networks, Human-Centered Computing, Human Computer Interaction, Computational Biology and
Bioinformatics
- Distributed Cognition and HCI Lab
United States, California, La Jolla
Jim Hollan
2001-09-05
University of California, San Diego
hollan@cogsci.ucsd.edu
Research in the UCSD DCOG-HCI Lab ranges across cognitive science. We are particularly interested in
understanding interactions among people and technology.
- Division of HCI
Sweden
Uppsala University, Department of Information Science
at the Faculty of Social Sciences
- Dresdner Usability-Beratung
German
Germany, Dresden
Gunter Dubrau
2002-06-10
Dresdner Usability-Beratung
gunter@dubrau.de
- DUB Group - Design : Use : Build
English
United States, Washington, Seattle
Jacob O. Wobbrock
2010-01-17
University of Washington
wobbrock@uw.edu
The multi-departmental DUB (design:use:build) group at the University of Washington.
- Dynamic Graphics Project (DGP)
Canada, Ontario, Toronto
Ron Baecker
University of Toronto
- Engelbart Institute
United States, California, Freemont
Douglas Engelbart
2013-07-02
"help organizations transform into high-performance organizations"
Contains links to many pioneering publications.
- Ergonomics and HCI Unit
United Kingdom, England, London
University College London
- FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc.
English, Japanese
United States, California, Palo Alto, 94304
Gene Golovchinsky
2009-07-14
FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc.
gene@fxpal.com
FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc. (FXPAL) is a leading multimedia research laboratory established in 1995 by Fuji Xerox Co.,
Ltd. FXPAL researchers invent information technologies intended to address key issues affecting businesses and society.
- Game Systems and Interaction Research Laboratory
English, Swedish
Sweden, Blekinge, Karlskrona
Lennart Nacke
2009-07-22
Blekinge Institute of Technology
Lennart.Nacke@bth.se
The group incorporates research themes including methodologies for design, game and
interaction design, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), and new paradigms for
information technologies (e.g. ubiquitous computing, wearable and mobile technologies, user
adaptive systems, robotics).
- GeroInformatics Workshop
United States, Michigan, Detroit
Wayne State University
- GIST: Glasgow Interactive Systems Group
United Kingdom, Scotland, Glasgow
2010-04-20
University of Glasgow
GIST is an inter-disciplinary Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research group based at the University of Glasgow investigating all aspects of interactive systems focusing on ubiquitous computing, multimodal interaction, visualisation and modelling.
Key areas:
* Mobile, wireless and ubiquitous computing
* Interactive system architectures
* Multimodal interaction (haptics, earcons and 3D sound)
* Interfaces for blind, visually impaired people and older people
* Home care systems
* Collaborative filtering visualisation and information retrieval
* Accident analysis and safety critical systems
* User modelling and pattern recognition
* Theories of information representation
* Web authentification, Dynahand, email stress
* Electronic Voting Systems, Schools Computing
- Graphics, Visualization & Usability Center (GVU)
United States, Georgia, Atlanta
Georgia Tech
- Group Interaction Homme-Machine (Man-Machine)
English
France, Paris
Wendy Mackay
University of Paris Sud
- groupe Interaction Homme-Machine
French
France, Orsay
Michel Beaudouin-Lafon
1998-08-19
University of Paris-Sud
mbl@lri.fr
HCI laboratory: CSCW, Interaction morphology, Information Visualization
- Grouplab: Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Groupware Research Laboratory
Canada, Alberta, Calgary
Saul Greenberg
University of Calgary, Department of Computer Science
saul@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
A research laboratory concerned with Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Groupware
- GroupLens Laboratory
English
United States, Minnesota, Minneapolis
Angela Brandt
2009-05-21
University of Minnesota
gladmin@cs.umn.edu
GroupLens is a research lab in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. We
conduct research in several areas, including recommender systems, online communities, mobile and ubiquitious technologies,
digital libraries, local geographic information systems.
- Groupware Task Analysis
Netherlands, Amsterdam
Martijn van Welie
1999-02-16
Vrije Universiteit
martijn@cs.vu.nl
a location on task analysis and user interface design
- GVI: Graphics, Visualization, & Interaction Group
United States, Rhode Island, Providence
Andy van Dam
2015-08-11
Brown University
- Hawaii Computer-Human Interaction Lab (HICHI)
English
United States, Hawaii, Honolulu
Scott P. Robertson
2011-06-22
University of Hawaii
scott.robertson@hawaii.edu
We are an interdisciplinary team of researchers interested in understanding how people use information systems and
dedicated to informing design based on observation of human activities.
- HCI Group at CLIPS-IMAG Laboratory
France, Grenoble
Joëlle Coutaz
1999-06-12
University of Grenoble
joelle.coutaz@imag.fr
Software Architecture, Multimodal Interaction, Computer Vision
- HCI Lab - University of Udine, Italy
Italy
Luca Chittaro
2002-12-31
University of Udine
chittaro@dimi.uniud.it
The Web site of the HCI Lab at the University of Udine, Italy. Active projects
concerns Virtual Reality, Mobile devices and services, Information Visualization,
Web3D sites.
- HCI Laboratory
Japan
Toyohashi University of Technology
- HCI Sidene hos NTNU
Norway, Trondheim
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- hci.gr - HCI Greece
Greece, Patras
Spiros Sirmakessis
2001-09-12
University of Patras, Computer Engineering and Informatics Department
syrma@cti.gr
hci.gr is the first usability service provider for Greece. We provide design guidelines and evaluation to
interactive systems, such as e-commerce applications (b-b & b-c), multimedia applications, e-learning environments
and e-banking services.
- HFRG: Human Factors Research Group
Ireland, Cork
Human Factors Research Group, University College Cork
"The Usability Evaluation Specialists in Ireland with Global Connections!"
- HMI Graduate School
Sweden
Kjell Ohlsson
2000-03-31
Depts of Mechanical Engineering/ Computer Science, Linkoping University
kjeoh@ikp.liu.se
HMI Graduate School embraces about 65 graduate students and 30 faculty members
in Linkoping and Stockholm
- Human - Computer Interaction Laboratory
English, Greek
Greece, Crete, Heraklion
Constantine Stephanidis
2007-11-16
Institute of Computer Science (ICS) - Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH).
cs@ics.forth.gr
The Laboratory carries out research activities focused on developing user interfaces for
interactive applications and services that are accessible, usable, and ultimately acceptable for diverse
users in the Information Society.
- Human Computer Interaction Lab. @ KAIST
Republic of Korea, Daejeon
Geehyuk Lee
2012-11-07
- Human Factors and Aging Laboratory
Arthur D. Fisk
2011-02-03
Georgia Tech: Human Factors and Aging Laboratory
At Georgia Tech, human factors and aging is studied from the broad perspective representative of the field of human factors. The Human Factors and Aging Laboratory is specifically oriented toward developing a fundamental understanding of aging, cognition, and attention. The Human Factors and Aging Laboratory is also committed to bringing that fundamental basic knowledge to bear on design issues important to the quality and safety of activities of daily living encountered by older adults.
- Human Interface Technology Lab
United States, Washington, Seattle
University of Washington
- Human Interface Technology Laboratory New Zealand
New Zealand, Canterbury, Christchurch
2003-05-18
Canterbury University
info@hitlabnz.org
- Human Media Lab
Canada, Ontario, Kingston
Roel Vertegaal
2001-10-05
Queen's University
roel@acm.org
The Human Media Lab is a research institute at the Department of Computing and
Information Science at Queen's University. It's main topic of research is the psychology
and design of nonverbal human-computer interaction.
- Human Oriented Technology Lab (HOT Lab)
English
Canada, Ontario, Ottawa
Richard F. Dillon
2002-08-25
Carleton University
ddillon@ccs.carleton.ca
The HOT Lab is a university-based centre for research, education, and consulting that strives to
improve interactive technologies for human endeavors with an emphasis on human computer interaction and
a user-centred design approach.
- Human Systems Integration Information Analysis Center (HSIIAC)
United States, Ohio, Dayton
2006-12-29
A government owned, contract operated agency that deals with the interface between the human component of a
system and its hardware and software using a total system approach
- Human-centered Environments for Learning and Programming (HELP) Lab at Washington State University
English
United States, Washington, Pullman
Chris Hundhausen
2012-03-22
Washington State University
hundhaus@wsu.edu
The HELP Lab at Washington State University performs research at the intersection of human-computer interaction and
education. Using the diverse methods of human-computer interaction, we design and empirically evaluate computer
technologies and pedagogical approaches that help undergraduate students learn within the domains of engineering and
computer science.
- Human-Computer Interaction
United States, Virginia, Charlottesville
Stephanie Guerlain
2001-12-17
University of Virginia
guerlain@virginia.edu
Undergraduate and Graduate program in human-computer interaction and/or cognitive
engineering.
Research in decision support in medical and military applications.
Cognitive engineering research in medical, military, transportation and process control.
Eye-gaze technology for usability testing and the disabled.
- Human-Computer Interaction (HCIL)
United States, Maryland, College Park
Allison Druin
2007-02-12
Maryland at College Park, University of
hcil-info@cs.umd.edu
- Human-Computer Interaction Design
United States, California, Stanford
Terry Winograd
1998-05-21
Stanford University
winograd@cs.stanford.edu
- Human-Computer Interaction Group
United Kingdom
University of York
- Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII)
United States, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
Vincent Aleven
2010-08-26
Carnegie Mellon University
- Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory
English
United States, Wisconsin, Madison
Bilge Mutlu
2010-06-19
Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin -- Madison
bmutlu@wisc.edu
At the Human-Computer Interaction Lab, we are interested in designing and developing interactive systems -- particularly social agents and robots -- and understanding their relationship with people. Our current work spans analyzing and building computational models of human social behavior, developing robots and agents that can enact social behavior, and designing applications that can provide people with positive social and cognitive benefits in education, rehabilitation, and therapy.
- HUSAT Research Institute
United Kingdom, Loughborough
Martin Maguire
2001-07-12
Loughborough University
husat-info@lboro.ac.uk
Human Sciences and Advanced Technology Research Institute
- IBM Almaden Research Center
United States, California, San Jose
2000-06-07
IBM
- IDLAB: Interaction Design Laboratory
English
Estonia, Harjumaa, Tallinn
David Lamas
2015-03-03
Tallinn University, Institute of Informatics
drl@tlu.ee
IDLAB started as a branch of Institute of Informatics at Tallinn University in 2009, as a
research, design and innovation unit contributing towards the knowledge and skills of the
Institute in the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Interaction Design (IxD).
- IKU research unit
English French
Belgium
Francise Decortis
2005-06-24
University of Liege
francoise.decortis@ulg.ac.be
IKU is a research unit which explores cooperative interactions and mediated and
situated knowledge.
- Informedia Digital Video Library Project
United States, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
Carnegie Mellon University
The overarching goal of the Informedia initiatives is to achieve machine understanding of video and film media, including all aspects of search, retrieval, visualization and summarization in both contemporaneous and archival content collections.
The base technology developed under Informedia-I combines speech, image and natural language understanding to automatically transcribe, segment and index linear video for intelligent search and image retrieval. Informedia-II seeks to improve the dynamic extraction, summarization, visualization, and presentation of distributed video, automatically producing "collages" and "auto-documentaries" that summarize documents from text, images, audio and video into one single abstraction.
- Institute of Design, IIT
United States, Illinois, Chicago
Vincent LaConte
2003-02-10
Institute of Design
vincent.laconte@id.iit.edu
The Institute of Design is the country's largest graduate school of design,
concentrating on human-centered methods for designing new technologies.
- Inter-Language Unification
United States, California, Palo Alto
Xerox PARC
- Interaction Design Centre
Ireland
Liam Bannon
2001-10-30
University of Limerick
- Interaction Design Centre, Middlesex University, London
English
United Kingdom, London
William Wong
2008-02-14
School of Computing Science, Middlesex University
w.wong@mdx.ac.uk
We investigate how people manipulate and interact with computers and information, how
individuals and teams use computers to control systems and processes, and how software should
be designed and built to support the nature of such work.
- Interaction Lab | University of Saskatchewan
English
Canada, Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
Carl Gutwin
2010-11-24
University of Saskatchewan
gutwin@cs.usask.ca
The Human-Computer Interaction Lab is a research facility in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Saskatchewan.
- Interactive Computing Environments (ICE) Laboratory
United States, Illinois, Chicago
University of Illinois at Chicago
- Interactive Media Lab (IML)
Canada, Ontario, Toronto
Mark Chignell
2001-01-01
University of Toronto, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering,
Human Factors group
"carries out research on the improvement of user interfaces for information systems. This research includes the design and testing of innovative multimedia environments, and usability testing of existing interfaces and systems"
- Interactive Systems Group
United States, Texas, El Paso
David Novick
2001-12-13
University of Texas at El Paso
Conducts research in models of interaction and the engineering of interactive systems. Our research builds knowledge at the confluence of human-computer interaction, computational linguistics and spoken-language systems.
- Interactive Systems Lab
Germany
- Interactive Systems Research Center
United States, Maryland, Baltimore
Andrew Sears
2002-03-28
UMBC
asears@umbc.edu
ISRC researchers investigate the design, implementation, and evaluation of interactive systems with
the purpose of supporting the development of systems that are both usable and accessible. Our emphasis
is two-fold: theoretical contributions and practical results. Through theoretical contributions, we
advance our knowledge and understanding of how humans interact with computers. Through practical
results, we improve the lives of those individuals that interact with technology.
- INUSE - European Usability Support Centres
United Kingdom
- ISISlab
Italy, Salerno, Baroniss
Rosario De Chiara
2005-03-25
Universita degli Studi di Salerno
dechiara@dia.unisa.it
- ISRG: Interactive Systems Research Group
English
Canada, Ontario, Toronto
Scott MacKenzie
2009-06-28
York University
- ISU Studio for New Media
English
United States, Iowa, Ames
Geoffrey Sauer
2006-03-05
Iowa State University
geoff@eserver.org
The Studio for New Media studies effective development of interfaces to multimedia and new
media products.
- Knowledge Media Design Institute
Canada, Ontario, Toronto
Joel Alleyne
2001-01-01
University of Toronto
Research Themes:
* Knowledge media for learning - the application of computer, communications, and cognitive sciences to knowledge building, problem solving, planning, education, and training, especially to facilitate collaborative, distance and multimedia-based learning
* Technologies for knowledge media - research and development of technologies and the technological infrastructure required to construct knowledge media, including interactive computer graphics, scientific visualization, hypertext, multimedia, databases, natural language processing, and artificial intelligence
* Human-centred design - the design science of human-computer interaction and of the creation of innovative computer systems and interfaces appropriate for human use, and more generally in the human factors of complex real-world systems and t echnologies, as rooted in research from applied cognitive science, psychology, and sociology
* Knowledge media, culture, and society - reflection and analysis of the social implications of the increasing reliance on new technologies. As information and new media technologies challenge fundamental beliefs, this area of research deals broadly with such issues as the nature of communities and institutions, work and employment, the balance of public and private good, privacy, copyright and intellectual property.
- Laboratory for Automation Psychology
United States, Maryland, College Park
University of Maryland
- Laboratory of Applied Computer Science
(LISI: Laboratoire d'Informatique Scientifique et Industrielle)
France, Poitiers
Patrick Girard
1999-01-19
National School of Engineers in Mechanics and Aerotechnics
girard@ensma.fr
Formal methods programming by demonstration, error recovery
- Liquid Information Organization
"Our premise is that we don't interface with computers, - we interface with
information, and people, increasingly through computers."
- Media Computing Group
English, German
Germany, NRW, Aachen
Jan Borchers
2007-10-22
RWTH Aachen University
borchers@cs.rwth-aachen.de
We conduct research in Media Computing and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) that goes beyond today's graphical user interface and desktop metaphor. Grounded in Computer Science, we develop and study new interaction theories, techniques, and systems in the areas of interaction with multimedia, ubiquitous computing environments, tangible user interfaces, and HCI design patterns. Our goal is to make the Brave New World of ubiquitous multimedia technologies useful by making it usable.
- Media Interface and Network Design Lab
United States, Michigan, East Lansing
Frank Biocca
2000-01-09
Michigan State University
biocca@tcimet.net
"The Media Interface and Network Design Labs (M.I.N.D. Labs)
are a network of state-of-the-art research facilities in communication
and human-computer interaction.
Communication and human-computer interaction researchers conduct rigorous scientific
studies of human physical, cognitive, communication,
and organizational performance in computer-based environments."
- METU Human Computer Interaction Research and Application Laboratory
English, Turkish
Turkey/ Ankara
Ozge Alacam
2010-03-31
Middle East Technical University
ibe@metu.edu.tr
METU Computer Center Human Computer Interaction Research and Application Laboratory provides eye tracking facility,
consultancy and lab. environment for academic/ public foundations and private companies, and perform full usability
testing.
- Microsoft Usability Home Page
United States, Washington, Redmond
- Microsoft User Interface Research Group
United States, Washington, Redmond
George Robertson
1998-06-25
Microsoft Research
ggr@microsoft.com
Research group focusing on information visualization and multimodal user interaction.
- MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge
- MIT Center for Coordination Science (CCS)
United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge
MIT
- MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge
- MIT Media Lab
United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge
- NSF Information and Intelligent Systems Division
United States, Washington
1998-07-01
National Science Foundation
"increase the ability to use information for human ends
by supporting research to improve the ability to
generate, store, organize, locate, communicate, and store
knowledge using new technologies"
- OCLC Human-Computer Interaction
United States, Ohio, Dublin
Mike Prasse
2000-07-07
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
prasse@oclc.org
Our goal is to be a source of interaction, debate, and information about
how people interact with computers in the library environment.
- Personal Information Management
English
United States, Washington, Seattle
William Jones
2005-12-09
University of Washington, Information School
williamj@u.washington.edu
Personal information management or PIM is attracting increasing attention as an area
of study. In the ideal world, we have the right information at the right time, in the
right place, in the right form, and of sufficient completeness and quality to perform
the current activity. Tools and technologies help so that we spend less time with
burdensome and error prone actions of information management (such as filing). We then
have more time to make creative, intelligent use of the information at hand in order to
get things done
- Pliant Research
"a group of researchers interested in the mismatch between the rigidity of current
computing technology and the richness of human lives and practices."
- Portable Usability Lab Rental
United States, Oregon, Portland
Frank Spillers
2004-10-07
Usability Lab Rental (Experience Dynamics)
sales@usabilitylabrental.com
Usability Lab Rental offers portable usability labs for rent or purchase.
- Psychology of Design (PoD) Laboratory
English
United States, Missouri, St. Joseph
Jeremiah D. Still
2011-04-08
Missouri Western State University
jstill2@missouriwestern.edu
Research in the PoD focuses on the creation of usable interfaces by adapting psychological theories to the design
process. The goal of PoD is to scientifically develop and test design considerations using formal and practical
methodologies.
- Psychology of Design (PoD) Laboratory
United States, California, San Jose
2014-06-29
San Jose State University
Our Goals are to Develop:
* Outstanding User Experience Researchers
* Improved Theories Supporting Intuitive Design
* Stronger Human-Centered Design Methodologies
* Easier to Search Complex Displays
* Healthier Cybersecurity Systems
- Research in Human-Computer Interaction
Finland, Tampere
University of Tampere
- SBU UX-LAB
Farsi
Iran, Tehran
Kaveh Bazargan
2015-12-17
Shahid Beheshti University, School of Management and Accounting, Department of Information Technology Management
Assesses usability, accessibility and user experience of all public information systems.
- School of Information
United States, Michigan, Ann Arbor
Judy Olson
1998-06-26
University of Michigan
jsolson@umich.edu
A new school that blends psychology,
computer science, information science, and economics.
- School of Interactive Computing
United States, Georgia, Atlanta
Gregory Abowd
2010-08-26
Georgia Institute of Technology
- scoreberlin - Strategic Consulting, Research & Evaluation
German
Germany, Berlin
Marcus Voelkel
2002-07-22
scoreberlin internet consulting & communication
mv@scoreberlin.de
Usability, Consulting & Communication
Heuristic evaluations, usability tests and analyses, articles on web and content usability.
- Sino-European Usability Center
English, Chinese
China, Dalian
Zhengjie Liu
2006-03-23
Sino-European Usability Center, Dalian Maritime University
liuzhj@dlmu.edu.cn
Founded in 2000, Sino-European Usability Center is an usability/HCI research lab and
consultancy in China with a team of around 40. It works on projects sponsored by international
companies and public funds. It offers Master and PhD programs in HCI.
- Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.
Japan, Tokyo
Toshiyuki Masui
1999-05-17
masui@acm.org
HCI research organization in Japan.
- Systems Engineering and Human-Machine Systems
German
Germany
University of Kassel
- TableTop Interaction Laboratory, t2i Lab, Chalmers
English
Sweden, Gothenburg
Morten Fjeld
2009-05-21
CSE, Chalmers
fjeld@chalmers.se
The objective behind Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) is to allow users to interact with computers through familiar
tangible objects, thereby taking advantage of the richness of the tactile world combined with the power of computer-based
simulations. TUIs give physical form to digital information, employing physical artifacts both as representations and
controls for computational media. They lend themselves well to collaboration around intelligent tables, or what we call
tabletop interaction. The t2i Lab at Chalmers TH is a group of researchers and talented students pushing the edge of
interactive technology. We do this primarily by constructing TUIs and tabletop, large-display User Interfaces (UI).
- TAUCHI group
Finland, Tampere
Kari-Jouko Raiha
2000-07-19
University of Tampere
kjr@cs.uta.fi
Tampere University Computer-Human Interaction Group
- The Keeping Found Things Found Project
English
United States, Washington, Seattle
William Jones
2005-12-09
University of Washington, Information School
williamj@u.washington.edu
The classic problem of information retrieval, simply put, is to help people find the
relatively small number of things they are looking for (books, articles, web pages,
CDs, etc.) from a very large set of possibilities. This classic problem has been
studied in many variations and has been addressed through a rich diversity of
information retrieval tools and techniques.
- Top HCI Research Laboratories
Alertbox: Web Usability Newsletter
Jakob Nielsen
2002-03-31
useit.com
A core group of elite corporate research labs (and a few universities)
defined the field of human-computer interaction and established much of
whatever ease of use we now enjoy. With big labs disappearing, the future of
HCI research is in jeopardy.
- Trace Research and Development Center
United States, Wisconsin, Madison
"Making information technology more usable for everyone"
- TUT - Institute of Human-Centered Technology
English
Finland, Tampere
Kaisa Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila
2007-09-18
Tampere University of Technology
info-ihte@cs.tut.fi
The institute of Human-Centered Technology (IHTE) at Tampere University of Technology
focuses on investigating user needs, values and requirements as a basis for better technical
systems. The research in IHTE aims at developing methods for designing, evaluating and
implementing highly usable and acceptable systems. The research is multidisciplinary, and
contributes to partner companies' R&D processes and business benefits.
- TUV Secure iT - Certified IT Quality through independent experts
Germany, Cologne
Thomas Geis
2002-02-05
TUV Secure iT GmbH
thomas.geis@de.tuv.com
Usability testing of interactive products (software and hardware) based on ISO
9241-10 and ISO 9241-11.
- UC Berkeley Digital Library Project
United States, California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
- UCL Interaction Centre (UCLIC)
United Kingdom, London
Ann Blandford
2005-10-16
University College London (UCL)
A.Blandford@ucl.ac.uk
Research, teaching and consultancy in HCI, including an advanced Masters in HCI.
- umanify - Human-computer interaction via human-like interactive assistants
English Spanish
Spain, Barcelona
Umanify
2006-03-24
Umanify.com
info@umanify.com
Our main interest resides in human-centered technologies: voice technologies (TTS
/ASR), artificial intelligence, multimodal interfaces for human-machine communication,
artificial vision and 2D/3D humanlike digital entities.
- University of Illinois Digital Libraries Initiative
United States, Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- University of Michigan: Usability in the Library
English
United States, Michigan, Ann Arbor
2007-02-12
University of Michigan University Library: Usability Working Group
ul-usability@umich.edu
The usability studies represented here have been conducted by various groups throughout
the UM Libraries as well as by the Usability Working Group.
- University of Patras HCI Group
English, Greek
Greece, Patras
N. Avouris
2007-02-26
University of Patras
avouris@upatras.gr
The Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Group of the University of Patras is active since
1994. It is currently hosted by the Computer Systems Lab of the ECE Department, while there
are plans for moving in a new building of the Department by the end of 2007.
- University Of Saskatchewan HCI Lab
Canada, Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
Jeff Dyck
2001-08-24
University Of Saskatchewan
jeff.dyck@usask.ca
Research areas include groupware awareness, groupware architecture, visualization,
usability, and others.
- Usabilitytesting.nl
Netherlands, Soesterberg
Mark Ruijsendaal
2002-11-05
TNO Human Factors
info@usabilitytesting.nl
Usability testing is an important instrument for systematically addressing the user and
usage
perspective during system (re)development. This site offers several usability testing
services.
- User-Lab: Usability Laboratory for Digital Media Design
United Kingdom, England, Brimingham
John Knight
2001-10-12
Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
John.Knight@uce.ac.uk
User-Lab is part of The Research Department at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. We are an integrated
usability laboratory equipped for behavioral research in human-computer interaction and digital media production.
- Userminds - experts in Internet communication
Danish English
Denmark, Copenhagen
Berit Krickhahn
2003-01-20
Userminds
berit.krickhahn@userminds.dk
Userminds offers experienced moderation and analysis of usability tests, focus groups and
user centered design
- Virtual Hand Laboratory
Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver
Kellogg S. Booth
University of British Columbia