Technology increasingly interacts with human and organizational capabilities in a way that promotes greater speed, efficiency, and productivity. Machines are beginning to understand and work with people to manufacture goods, deliver health care, provide instruction, support decision making, and much more. These benefits result, in part, from the growing role artificial intelligence and machine learning play in service of interaction. Yet, we lack a principled and scientific approach to the future of human and computer interaction in an environment where the computer interface has become invisible and ubiquitous. Center researchers pioneer the science of interactive computing and build on our world-renowned leadership and expertise in haptics, social computing, human computation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data visualization.

Meet Our Faculty Experts

 Ed Colgate                      Darren Gergle                   Mike Horn                   Jessica Hullman

Matt Kay                            Duri Long                        Stephan Moore               Nell O’Rourke

Bryan Pardo                   Michael Peshkin          Marcelo Worsley            Haoqi Zhang

Example Publications

Manilow, E., Seetharaman, P., & Pardo, B. (2020, May). Simultaneous Separation and Transcription of Mixtures with Multiple Polyphonic and Percussive Instruments. In ICASSP 2020-2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (pp. 771-775). IEEE.

Hullman, J., Kim, YS., Nguyen, F., Speers, L., and Agrawala, M. Improving Comprehension of Measurements Using Concrete Re-expression Strategies. ACM CHI

Martin, K., Wang, E. Q., Bain, C., & Worsley, M. (2019, October). Computationally Augmented Ethnography: Emotion Tracking and Learning in Museum Games. In International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography (pp. 141-153). Springer, Cham.

Past Events

"How Infrastructure Works: Inside The Systems That Shape Our World"

April 10, 2024

Deb Chachra, Professor of Engineering at Olin College,  spoke with HCI+D about her research and ideas on the physical infrastructure systems that shape our world.

Patent

METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING A PROGRAMMABLE CLICK SENSATION ON A TOUCH SURFACE, EJ Colgate, MA Peshkin, H XU. US Patent App. 16/782,644