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
- Julie Kientz - SAVEstate: A Method for Documenting Player Reflection in Digital Games presented at the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY ‘26) (November 2026)
- Julie Kientz - Designing Sexual Communication Tools for and with Transgender and Queer Youth presented at the 29th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ’26) (October 2026)
- Leah Findlater - Synthesizing and Evaluating a Visual Feedback Framework for Accessible Content Creation in Proceedings of the 28th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '26) (October 2026)
- 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)