Research Areas - Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

Overview

The Human-Computer Interaction Group studies interaction in future computing environments including the office, home, mobile and medical. Emphasis on context-aware systems, perceptual interfaces (like computer vision and speech), visualization and learning technologies. The BID lab is a 4000-sq ft lab designed to foster collaboration, and houses about 25 students from CS, ME, BioE and Art practice. The Tele-immersive lab has about 10 students and postdocs from EECS, Humanities and Dance department and has extensive collaboration with faculty from University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.

Topics

• Context-aware computing:

  Activity analysis, Smart Spaces, Location-aware systems, Privacy technologies.

• Perceptual Interfaces:

  Vision-based interfaces, speech and discourse interfaces.

• Collaboration and Learning:

  Pattern-based authoring tools, ESL (English as a second language) learning, group collaboration technologies,including geographically distributed tele-immersive collaboration.

• Optometry and Human Vision Simulation:

  Computer aided cornea modeling and visualization, medical imaging, virtual environments for surgical simulation, vision realistic rendering

Research Centers

• Berkeley Institute of Design (BID)
• Berkeley Laboratory for Automation Science and Engineering
• Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS)
• Tele-Immersion
• Virtual Development Center (VDC)
• Visual Computing Lab (VCL)

Research Projects

Faculty

• Maneesh Agrawala
• Ruzena Bajcsy
• Brian A. Barsky
• John F. Canny (coordinator)
• Dan Garcia
• Ken Goldberg
• Susan L. Graham
• Björn Hartmann
• Jitendra Malik
• James O'Brien
• Tapan S. Parikh
• Eric Paulos
• Carlo H. Séquin

Related Courses

• CS 160. User Interfaces
• CS 260B. User Interfaces to Computer Systems