Research

Faculty associated with the Center for Human-Computer Interaction are involved in basic and applied projects in such areas as design methods and models, multimedia information access, digital libraries, community computing, educational technology, end-user development, network-based collaboration, aesthetics, visual design, visualization and virtual environments, input and output device ergonomics, documentation and design rationale, training and education, creating new types of interfaces (or similar), and usability evaluation methods and tools.

The Center is a common point of contact for potential industrial sponsors and for industrial continuing education, consulting, and testing requests. The existence of the Center demonstrates to funding agencies and potential industrial sponsors that the interdisciplinary cooperation represented in Penn State proposals is more than an ad hoc repackaging of separate, departmental interests. It shows that this cooperation has been institutionalized. The existence of the Center also assists departments interested in aspects of human-computer interaction with graduate and undergraduate recruiting by creating an externally visible focus on HCI.

To learn about individual research projects of the Center for HCI, please visit the individual lab website listed at http://hci.psu.edu/public/hci/Associated+Labs.