Researchers in this cluster design, build, and evaluate new technologies and systems—ranging from machine learning tools to robotics, visualization platforms, and open-source hardware.
This research often involves co-design with impacted populations and communities of practice. Methods include empirical studies, prototyping, user testing, visual analytics, and deployment in real-world settings. Areas of focus span interaction design, AR/VR, robotics, clean technologies, and sociotechnical systems.
HCDE researchers
Recent publications
- Leah Findlater - SceneScout: Towards AI-Driven Access to Street Level Imagery for Blind Users in Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26) (April 2026)
- Leah Findlater - Interface Support for Evaluating Disability Bias in AI Generated Images in Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26) (April 2026)
- Nadya Peek - From Copy/Paste to Copying Pastes: Supporting Replication in an Online Digital Fabrication Community in Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26) (April 2026)
- Nadya Peek - An automated system for electrodeposition of polymer thin films and their wetting analysis in Review of Scientific Instruments (February 2026)
- Julie Kientz and Sayamindu Dasgupta - Reading AI and Reading the World: Using an Interactive AI System to Promote Children's Understanding of AI Bias in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (December 2025)
- Daniela Rosner - On Apps and Appliqué in e-flux Architecture (November 2025)
- Leah Findlater - VizXpress: Towards Expressive Visual Content by Blind Creators Through AI Support in Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '25) (October 2025)
- Leah Findlater - “Before, I Asked My Mom, Now I Ask ChatGPT”: Visual Privacy Management with Generative AI for Blind and Low-Vision People in Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '25) (October 2025)
- Charlotte Lee - The Agony and Ecstasy of Extended Research on Computational Systems in Proceedings of the sixth decennial Aarhus conference: Computing X Crisis (AAR '25) (August 2025)
- Charlotte Lee - Floating Points in Proceedings of the sixth decennial Aarhus conference: Computing X Crisis (AAR '25) (August 2025)
- Nadya Peek - Computational Craft: Computational Fabrication Methods for Enabling Craft Production in Textiles and Ceramics in Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference Courses (SIGGRAPH Courses '25) (August 2025)
- Nadya Peek - Jitterbug: A Hybrid Digital Fabrication Platform for Rapid Prototyping of Printed Electronics in Proceedings of the ASME 2025 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (August 2025)
- Daniela Rosner - Fibers of Alignment at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) (August 2025)
- Daniela Rosner - Hope, Ontological Breakdowns, and a World of Many Worlds at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) (August 2025)
- Mark Zachry - Impacts of AI on Human Designers: A Systematic Literature Review in 2025 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm) (August 2025). Received the Rudolph J. Joenk Award for Best Paper at the 2026 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm '26).