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.

Autumn 2020 Research Groups

• Human Centered Natural Language Processing and Text Visualization (Aragon)
• POST(-)HUMAN HAZMAT: Design fiction for multispecies care and collaborative survival in cataclysmic climates (Beach, Fox)
• Race, Culture, Gender & Ethics in Technology (Cunningham, Kientz)
• Human-Centered Gaming (Kientz, Kolko)
• Current Trends in Accessibility Research (McDonnell, Zhang, Findlater)
• SCAN Research Group: Improving usability of a home-based respiratory virus sample collection process for community surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 (Pothan, Björling)

Autumn 2020: no longer accepting applicants

• Dear Design (Atman, Shroyer, Jordan)
• Project RESeT: Relaxation Environment for Stress in Teens (Björling, Sonney, Rodriguez)
• Project EMAR (Björling, Cakmak)
• Discursive Design Inquiry with Home Cameras (Herrera Tan, Munson, Desjardins)
• Research through Collaboration: Understanding How Journalists Analyze and Report on Online Misinformation (McClure Haughey, Starbird)
• Designing to Support Reflection on the Identities We Hold (Roldan, Peil, Liang, Berry, Turns )
• Exposing trails of misinformation: How did this content reach me? (Zade, Hsieh, Starbird)