How do people work together—and how can technology help? This research cluster focuses on the systems, tools, and relationships that support collaboration at every level—from families and teams to institutions and global communities.
We study how individuals and organizations coordinate their actions, share information, and respond to change. Our work investigates the complex sociotechnical systems that shape and are shaped by collaboration, including physical, digital, and social infrastructures.
This research brings together systems thinking, theoretical grounding, and interdisciplinary methods to understand, design, and strengthen the infrastructures that support a thriving and resilient society.
HCDE Researchers
Recent Publications
- Sucheta Ghoshal and Sayamindu Dasgupta - From Data Activism to Activism in a Time of Data-Centrism: Affirming Epistemological Heterogeneity in Social Movements in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (May 2025). Received an Honorable Mention Award at CSCW '25
- Gary Hsieh - SCOPE: Examining Technology-Enhanced Collaborative Care Management of Depression in the Cancer Setting in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (November 2025)
- Sean Munson - Evaluation of an Email Blood Pressure Measurement Outreach Program in American Journal of Hypertension (October 2025)
- Sonia Savelli - Southeastern U.S. Residents’ Perceptions and Responses to Evolving Probabilistic Tornado Forecasts and Warnings in Weather and Forecasting (October 2025)
- Gary Hsieh -PosterMate: Audience-driven Collaborative Persona Agents for Poster Designin Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (September 2025)
- Charlotte Lee - Floating Points in Proceedings of the sixth decennial Aarhus conference: Computing X Crisis (AAR '25) (August 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)
- David Ribes - Computational universalism, or, Attending to relationalities at scale in Social Studies of Science (July 2025)