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 the National Academy of Engineering, as well as ACM, HFES, and IEEE Fellows, technical and lifetime achievement award winners, journal editors, and conference chairs.
Name | Title | Academic Unit | Research Interests |
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Gregory Abowd | Distinguished Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Ubiquitous/everyday computing |
Clio Andris | Assistant Professor | School of Interactive Computing | School of Interactive Computing/School of City and Regional Planning GIS/Urban Analytics/Social Networks |
Rosa Arriaga | Senior Research Scientist | School of Interactive Computing | HCI for chronic care management (e.g., asthma, diabetes), using crowd sourcing for health information; psychological theories and methods to address fundamental topics in HCI |
Ian Bogost | Professor | School of Literature, Media, and Communication | Videogame criticism, videogame rhetoric, and visualization, including game design and educational, persuasive, and political speech in games |
Jay Bolter | Professor | School of Literature, Media, and Communication | Augmented Reality design, media theory |
Mark Braunstein | Professor of the Practice | School of Interactive Computing | Health information technology |
Amy Bruckman | Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Online communities and education |
Jim Budd | Chair & Professor | School of Industrial Design | Human-centered, interactive product design; wearables |
Richard Catrambone | Professor | School of Psychology | 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) |
Polo Chau | Associate Professor | School of Computational Science and Engineering | Data visualization, data mining, (explainable) machine learning, scalable interactive tools for big data |
Young Mi Choi | Associate Professor | School of Industrial Design | 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 |
Russ Clark | Senior Research Scientist | School of Computer Science | Mobility and convergence, network management |
Sauvik Das | Assistant Professor | School of Interactive Computing | HCI, Usable Security & Privacy, Social & Ubiquitous Computing |
Munmun De Choudhury | Assistant Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Computational social science, social media analytics and modeling, social computing, health, wellbeing |
Betsy DiSalvo | Associate Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Educational technology, cultural values and how those values impact technology use, learning, and production |
Carl DiSalvo | Associate Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Critical design, participatory design, the construction of publics, imaging the city, community robotics |
Keith Edwards | Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Human-centered computing, information security, social computing, technology support for non-profits and NGOs |
Alex Endert | Assistant Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Visual analytics, information visualization |
Irfan Essa | Associate Dean for Off-Campus and Special Initiatives & Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Computational Perception, Robotics and Computer Animation, Artificial Intelligence |
Karen Feigh | Associate Professor | School of Aerospace Engineering | Decision Support Systems, especially in aviation and accounting for human limitations; Computational Cognitive Modeling for Engineering Design, especially predictive cognitive modeling; Mission control and UAV and MAV ground control systems |
Jim Foley | Professor Emeritus | School of Interactive Computing | Information visualization, educational technology |
Jason Freeman | Professor | School of Music | Computer vision, real-time music notation, and networked music |
Katherine Fu | Assistant Professor | School of Mechanical Engineering | Design cognition, design by analogy, design intuition, expertise in design, computational support for design, design ethics, design theory and methodology |
Ashok Goel | Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computational design, computational creativity, modeling human creativity in practical tasks |
Beki Grinter | Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Relationships between human action, interaction, and computing; computer-supported cooperative work, sociology, software engineering and ubiquitous computing |
Melody Moore Jackson | Associate Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Biometric control interfaces, brain-computer interfaces, user interface reengineering, software engineering education |
Chris LeDantec | Associate Professor | School of Literature, Media, and Communication | Integrating theoretical, empirical, and design-based investigations of community technologies; computer-supported cooperative work, social computing, urban computing, and values in design |
Wayne Li | Professor of the Practice | School of Industrial Design | 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 |
Yanni Loukissas | Assistant Professor | School of Literature, Media, and Communication | Data Visualization, Social Studies of Computing, Urban Computing, Critical Design, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work |
Blair MacIntyre | Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Design and implementation of augmented reality environments, UI software architectures for AR and 3DUIs, games, AR systems. |
Brian Magerko | Assistant Professor (joint appt. with Interactive Computing) | School of Literature, Media, and Communication | Computational creativity, interactive narrative, educational media, and AI-based digital performance |
Janet Murray | Professor | School of Literature, Media, and Communication | Interactive narrative and eTV, interactive gaming, encyclopedic media |
Beth Mynatt | Executive Director of IPaT & Professor | School of Interactive Computing | 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 |
Michael Nitsche | Associate Professor | School of Literature, Media, and Communication | Interaction in mixed media spaces, machinima, games and film, and digital performance |
HyunJoo Oh | Assistant Professor | School of Industrial Design | Working at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and design, she studies and builds creative technologies (tools, kits, and methods) that integrate everyday craft materials with computing |
Andrea Parker | Associate Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Human-computer interaction, social computing, health equity, social justice, civic computing, public health |
Nassim Parvin | Associate Professor | School of Literature, Media, and Communication | Civic and Participatory Media, Design Ethics and Politics (Values and Design), Information Design and Visualization, Participatory and Co-design Methods |
Thomas Ploetz | Associate Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Computational Behavior Analysis, Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing, (Applied) Machine Learning, Time Series Analysis |
Colin Potts | Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education & Associate Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Requirements engineering, design rationale and argumentation, user-centered design, and personal privacy |
Amy Pritchett | Associate Professor | School of Aerospace Engineering | 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 |
Mark Riedl | Associate Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Artificial intelligence, storytelling, and entertainment computing |
Jon Sanford | Professor | School of Industrial Design | Assistive Technologies and Universal Design |
Stephen Sprigle | Professor (joint appt. with Applied Physiology) | School of Industrial Design | Assistive and rehabilitation technologies; human-centered design |
Thad Starner | Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Wearable computing, contextual computing, ubiquitous computing, artificial intelligence |
John Stasko | Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Information visualization, visual analytics, human-computer interaction |
Bruce Walker | Professor | School of Psychology | Sonification, auditory interfaces, user-centered design |
Kari Watkins | Associate Professor | School of Civil and Environmental Engineering | Transit traveler information systems, applications of Value Sensitive Design in transportation information |
Gil Weinberg | Professor (adjunct appt. with Interactive Computing) | School of Music | New instruments for musical expression, musical networks, machine and robotic musicianship, sonification, and music education |
Lauren Wilcox | Assistant Professor | School of Interactive Computing | Human-Centered Computing, Health Informatics, Health Communication |
Ellen Zegura | Fleming Professor | School of Computer Science | Human-centered computing, humanitarian computing, mobile wireless networking |