Faculty and research scientists in the department of Human Centered Design & Engineering run directed research groups, which offer students a wide range of opportunities to do hands-on work, from conducting usability tests for local companies all the way to collecting data on communication issues internationally.

Students interested in participating in directed research must get permission directly from the faculty member leading the group. Students enroll in course HCDE 496/596. For details on how to register, please visit the Variable Credit Registration Policy. Check this webpage frequently as Directed Research Groups are added leading up to the beginning of the quarter.

Summer 2019 Research Groups

• HCD charrette for K-12 outreach @ the Library (Davidson, Carr)
• Participatory Design with Children and Researchers (Kientz, Yip, Lee, Hiniker)
• Beyond Makerspaces (Zachry)
• Pathways: Mapping HCDE Career Experiences (Berg, Chuchro, McDonald)

Spring 2019 Research Groups

• Distributed mentoring and fanfiction data analytics (Aragon, Frens)
• The internet of light (Craft)
• Problematic futures (Craft, Fox)
• Human centered design in London preparatory seminar (for students participating in study abroad program) (Craft, Fox)
• HCD charrette for K-12 outreach (Davidson, Bipat)
• Cloud-based design and prototyping for collaborative management of regional mobility (Haselkorn, Savelli)
• Implementing Mental Health Strategies in Everyday Life (Hsieh, Agapie)
• Children’s digital media design toolkit (Kientz, Tartaro)
• The Final Frontier: Human-Centered Space Technologies (Kolko)
• Do conflicts make the Spanish editions of Wikipedia better? (McDonald, Zachry, Bipat)
• Do conflicts make the French editions of Wikipedia better? (McDonald, Zachry, Bipat)
• A design space for mindfulness technologies (Munson, Lukoff, Hiniker)
• Memes of Production (Peek)
• Fabricatable machines: rapid prototyping of rapid prototyping machines (Peek)
• Exploring the Shadow (Turns, Peil)
• Talking about teaching (in HCDE) (Turns)
• Critical Design of HCI Ethical Guidelines, Tools, and Methods (Turns, Mainwaring, Beach, Langevin, Mejia)

Full in Spring 2019

• Human-robotic interaction DRG team (Björling, Xu)
• Virtual relaxation environment for teens (Björling, Sonney)
• Interactive tangible printed displays: designing and displaying narratives of women in gaming (Alternative Spring Break DRG) (Craft, Bjørn, Jensen)
• Research advances in ubiquitous computing and accessibility (Findlater)
• Design Opportunities for Adaptive Fitness (Findlater, Kientz, Tartaro)
• Do conflicts make the English editions of Wikipedia better? (McDonald, Zachry, Bipat)
• Technology design for goal-directed migraine tracking (Munson, Schroeder, Fogarty)
• Figure and ground: amplifying the public imagination of the central area (Rosner, Cox)
• The internet of evocative objects: a deployment of public IoTs (Rosner, Kinnee, Silva, Fox)
• Building open source software for food recovery: working at the nexus among health, the environment, and resource constrained communities (Spyridakis)
• Promoting Sustainability through Persuasive UX in Virtual Reality (Spyridakis)
• HCI, journalism and misinformation: understanding how journalists process, analyze and make sense of data (Starbird, McClure Haughey, Williams)