Human–computer interaction (HCI) is research in the design and the use of computer technology, which focuses on the interfaces between people (users) and computers. HCI researchers observe the ways humans interact with computers and design technologies that allow humans to interact with computers in novel ways. (via wikipedia)
Type: Interdisciplinary Research Lab
Location: La Jolla, CA
Mission Statement and/or Research Focus: building a substantive body of theory and evidence-based insights to establish a scientific basis for design
Participant Type: Undergraduate, Graduate, Fellow, Faculty
Additional notes or links: look at this link for more updates on summer 2024 internships early in 2024!
Type: Research Group
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Mission Statement and/or Research Focus: Develop autonomous, intelligent robots that help people live better. Their robots engage people through social and physical interactions, monitoring human behavior to understand and predict the types of help people need. Application domains include assistive robot manipulators for people with motor impairments, robot tutors for education, and robot therapy assistants for people with cognitive or social disabilities.
Participant Type: Faculty, Post-Doc, Phd Students, Masters Students, Undergraduates
Additional notes or links: get to know their robots!
Type: Research Group, Community Partnership
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Mission Statement and/or Research Focus: Explores socially meaningful innovation and deployment of robotic technologies. Empower a technologically fluent generation and everyday scientists through the group's research projects.
Participant Type: n/a
Additional notes or links: see their white paper here , projects and publications available at the main link
Type: Research Lab
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Mission Statement and/or Research Focus: Explore the intersection of physically assistive robotics, machine learning, multimodal perception, mobile manipulation, physics simulation, and human-robot interaction. Develop wearable interfaces and robot autonomy.
Participant Type: Faculty, PhD Students, Master's, Undergraduates
Additional notes or links: really cute postdogs!
Type: Research Lab
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Mission Statement and/or Research Focus: Mission is to innovate interactive systems that catalyze advances in AI to achieve three levels of human-centered objectives: 1. Aligning with human values 2. Assimilating human intents 3. Augmenting human abilities
Participant Type: Professors, PhD and MS students
Additional notes or links: seemed to have had undergraduate researchers in the past!
Type: Research Lab
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Mission Statement and/or Research Focus: Explores human-computer interaction, with a focus on immersive experiences in virtual reality and augmented reality. Research and develop techniques and technologies to improve the human experience of computing.
Participant Type: Undergraduate and Master's Students, Post-Doc opportunities.
Additional notes or links: 'XP lab' for short. No PhD programs. Run under one professor at Cal State LA, refer to people page.
Type: Research Lab
Location: Santa Clare, CA
Mission Statement and/or Research Focus: 👁️ AR/VR • 🎨 Generative AI • 🌐 Social computing • 🌱 Digital wellbeing
Participant Type: Undergraduate, Masters, and PhD students. Interdisciplinary Professors.
Additional notes or links: Deeply interdisciplinary lab, including professors in law, english, and more! also, check out their ohlone ar project under projects.
Type: Group/Consortium of Labs and Departments
Location: Berkeley, CA
Mission Statement and/or Research Focus:
Participant Type: Undergraduate, Masters, PhD students. Faculty opportunities vary.
Additional notes or links: more labs linked within main page.
Type: Research Group
Location: Berkeley, CA
Mission Statement and/or Research Focus: Research group that fosters a deeply interdisciplinary approach to design for the 21st century, spanning human-computer interaction, mechanical design, education, architecture, and art practice.
Participant Type: Faculty and PhD Students.
Additional notes or links: sparse project information.
Type: Research Center
Location: Berkeley, CA
Mission Statement and/or Research Focus: An interdisciplinary research center that studies and shapes media transition and emergence from diverse perspectives. Through critical thinking and making, BCNM cultivate technological equity and fairness in our classrooms, in our communities, and on the internet.
Participant Type: Undergraduate, Master's, PhD Students, and Faculty.
Additional notes or links: page load times significant.
University of California, Irvine, Informatics Department, Social and Technological Action Research (STAR) group
Type: Research Group
Location: Irvine, CA
Mission Statement and/or Research Focus: Perform research in the areas of human-computer interaction (HCI), computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), ubiquitous computing (ubicomp), medical informatics, and educational and assistive technologies, focusing on conditions and effects.
Participant Type: Post-Doc and PhD students.
Additional notes or links: site includes detailed lab manual. open to graduate and undergraduate students, but specific commitments are required. no ms or undergrads currently listed on the site.
Type: Research Lab
Location: Santa Barbara, CA
Mission Statement and/or Research Focus: AR, VR, Computer Vision, Data mining and ML
Participant Type: Facutly, PhD, MS, Undegraduate student researchers.
Additional notes or links: Nested between the Department of Computer Science and the Media and Technology Arts Program. "We are always looking for motivated students to participate in research projects. Contact any of our members to get involved!"
Type: Research Lab
Location: Providence, RI
Mission Statement and/or Research Focus: Taking user interactions and behavior to create new experiences.
Participant Type: PhD, MS, Undergraduate students
Additional notes or links: some of the projects, like computer science open data are valuable to any cs student researcher!