Program Management Team
Faculty
Learn about the 50 faculty from the four sponsoring schools, plus additional HCI-active faculty. Each faculty can advise MS-HCI projects in areas related to their research interests.
Our faculty are well-recognized in their fields of endeavor, and include members of the CHI Academy and National Academy of Engineering, ACM, HFES and IEEE Fellows, technical and lifetime achievement awards, journal editors and conference chairs.
| Name | Title | Research Interest |
|---|---|---|
| Amy Pritchett | Associate Professor | Cognitive engineering methods for designing technologies and work processes to support cognitive behaviors. Applications of cognitive engineering to aerospace engineering (including cockpit, air traffic control, and UAV operations), to educational technology, and to design tools. |
| Karen Feigh | Assistant Professor | Decision Support Systems, especially in aviation and accounting for human limitations. Computational Cognitive Modeling for Engineering Design; predictive cognitive modeling. Mission control and UAV and MAV ground control systems. |
| Name | Title | Research Interest |
|---|---|---|
| Lauren Wilcox | Assistant Professor | Human-Centered Computing, Health Informatics, Health Communication |
| Gregory Abowd | Distinguished Professor | Ubiquitous/everyday computing |
| Rosa Arriga | Senior Research Scientist | Human learning, technology aid for Autism Spectrum Disorders, developmental psychology in robotics |
| Aaron Bobick | Professor | Computer vision; computational perception for human-robot interaction |
| Mark Braunstein | Professor of the Practice | Health information technology |
| Amy Bruckman | Associate Professor | Online communities and education, |
| Keith Edwards | Associate Professor | Human-centered computing, information security, social computing, technology support for non-profits and NGOs, |
| Irfan Essa | Professor | Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Computational Perception, Robotics and Computer Animation, Artificial Intelligence |
| Jim Foley | Professor | Information visualization, educational technology |
| Eric Gilbert | Assistant Professor | Social media |
| Ashok Goel | Professor | Artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computational design, computational creativity, modeling human creativity in practical tasks |
| Beki Grinter | Associate Professor | Relationships between human action, interaction, and computing; computer-supported cooperative work, sociology, software engineering and ubiquitous computing |
| Mark Guzdial | Professor | Computer science education, educational computing, software-realized scaffolding, collaborative multimedia, construction and design environments for students, constructionism, collaboration support, log file analysis and visualization, computational science (computer modeling, simulation, and visualization) for students |
| Melody Moore Jackson | Associate Professor | Biometric control interfaces, brain-computer interfaces, user interface reengineering, software engineering education |
| Karen Liu | Assistant Professor | Computer graphics and animation, including physics-based animation, character animation, numerical methods, robotics and computational biomechanics |
| Blair McIntyre | Associate Professor | Design and implementation of computer-enhanced interactive environments, augmented reality environments, exploration and design of prototype applications |
| Beth Mynatt | Professor | Supporting informal collaboration and awareness in office environments, enabling creative work and visual communication, augmenting social processes for managing personal information, ubiquitous computing, assistive technologies |
| Colin Potts | Associate Professor | Requirements engineering, design rationale and argumentation, user-centered design, and personal privacy |
| Mark Riedl | Assistant Professor | Artificial intelligence, storytelling, and entertainment computing |
| Thad Starner | Associate Professor | Wearable computing, contextual computing, ubiquitous computing, artificial intelligence |
| John Stasko | Professor | Information visualization, visual analytics, peripheral awareness |
| Andrea Thomaz | Assistant Professor | Socially intelligent machines, artificial intelligence, human-robot interaction |
| Name | Title | Research Interest |
|---|---|---|
| Polo Chau | Assistant Professor | data visualization, data mining, (explainable) machine learning, scalable interactive tools for big data |
| Name | Title | Research Interest |
|---|---|---|
| Stephen Sprigle | Professor (joint with Applied Physiology) | assistive and rehabilitation technologies; human centered design |
| Christina Choi | Assistant Professor | New Product Innovation, Assistive Technology, Universal Design, Human Factors and Ergonomics, User Needs/Usability, Applications of Virtual Reality in the Design Process, Wearable devices/medical devices, Marketing Management |
| Jim Budd | Professor and ID School Chair | human-centered, interactive product design; wearables |
| Wayne Li | Professor of the Practice | UI/UX, especially at the the hardware/software interface in transportation, housewares, electronics and all things green Ethnography & Data Analytics: Information design for complex databases & the human contexts that drive them. Advancing multi-disciplinary education in engineering and ID through connected platforms and shared physical and virtual spaces |
| Ellen Do | Professor, Joint with IC | Intelligent Systems and Objects, Design Computing and Cognition, Physical and Ubiquitous Computing, Intuitive Design Interfaces, Sketch Understanding, Diagram Indexing and Retrieval, Computationally Enhanced Construction Kits and Toys, Architectural Robotics, Ambient Intelligence and Smart Living Technologies |
| Jon Sanford | Associate Professor; CATEA Director | Assistive Technologies and Universal Design |
| Claudia Rebola | Assistant Professor | Intergenerational design, communication technologies and healthy aging with special emphasis on exercising inclusive design, tangible interfaces/physical computing, and participatory design methods |
| Name | Title | Research Interest |
|---|---|---|
| Ellen Zegura | Professor | Human-centered computing, humanitarian computing, mobile wireless networking. |
| Russ Clark | Research Scientist | Mobility and convergence, network management |
| Name | Title | Research Interest |
|---|---|---|
| Nassim JafariNaimi | Assistant Professor | Civic and Participatory Media, Design Ethics and Politics (Values and Design), Information Design and Visualization, Participatory and Co-design Methods |
| Ian Bogost | Professor, Director of Graduate Studies | Videogame criticism, videogame rhetoric, and visualization, including game design and educational, persuasive, and political speech in games |
| Jay Bolter | Professor | Augmented Reality design, media theory |
| Carl DiSalvo | Assistant Professor | Critical design, participatory design, the construction of publics, imaging the city, community robotics. |
| Chris LeDantec | Assistant Professor | Integrating theoretical, empirical, and design-based investigations of community technologies; computer-supported cooperative work, social computing, urban computing, and values in design |
| Brian Magerko | Assistant Professor, Adjunct with | computational creativity, interactive narrative, educational media, and AI-based digital performance |
| Janet Murray | Professor | Interactive narrative and eTV, interactive gaming, encyclopedic media |
| Michael Nitsche | Assistant Professor | Interaction in mixed media spaces, machinima, games and film, and digital performance |
| Celia Pearce | Assistant Professor | Sociology of massively multiplayer games and virtual worlds, spatial media, game design |
| John Sharp | Assistant Professor | Game design curriculum, the artgames movement, videogame aesthetics, the history of play, and the early history of computer and video games |
| Name | Title | Research Interest |
|---|---|---|
| Gil Weinberg | Assistant Professor, Adjunct with IC | New instruments for musical expression, musical networks, machine and robotic musicianship, sonification, and music education |
| Jason Freeman | Assistant Professor | Computer vision, real-time music notation, and networked music |
| Name | Title | Research Interest |
|---|---|---|
| Richard Catrambone | Professor | Instructional design, problem solving, use of task analysis to identify what learners and trainees need to know and do, computer-based (multimedia) instructional environments, animations and embodied conversational agents (ECAs) |
| Frank Durso | Professor | Engineering psychology, cognitive ergonomics |
| Arthur Fisk | Professor | Engineering psychology, human factors and aging |
| Wendy Rogers | Professor | Engineering psychology, human factors and aging |
| Bruce Walker | Associate Professor, joint withIC | Sonification, auditory interfaces, user-centered design |
| Name | Title | Research Interest |
|---|---|---|
| Charles Eastman | Professor, joint with | Computer-aided design, solids modeling and engineering databases, and design theory |
| Name | Title | Research Interest |
|---|---|---|
| Kari Watkins | Assistant Professor | Transit traveler information systems, applications of Value Sensitive Design in transportation information |
| Name | Title | Research Interest |
|---|---|---|
| May D. Wang | Associate Professor | Biomedical and Health Informatics, Molecular Imaging, Mobile Health |