Research Groups
Human-Computer Interaction Resources on the Net has an extensive list of research groups at http://www.ida.liu.se/~miker/hci/labs/.
Cognitive Engineering Laboratory (CEL)
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
http://www.mie.utoronto.ca/labs/cel/
Publications: http://www.mie.utoronto.ca/labs/cel/publications/
Computer Graphics & Human-Computer Interaction (CG&HCI)
Informatics Department, University of Oldenburg, Germany
http://www-cg-hci.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.de/
Glasgow Interactive Systems Group (GIST)
Glasgow University, Scotland, UK
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/gist/
"GIST is an inter-disciplinary research group based at Glasgow University investigating all aspects of interactive systems - from Graphics to Sounds, from User Interface Software Technology to the Psychology of Interaction and Formal techniques of user interfaces."
Publications: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~johnson/gist_papers.html
Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center (GVU)
Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), USA
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/
Publications: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/reports/
Groupe Interaction Homme-Machine (IHM)
Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique
Université Paris Sud, France
http://www-ihm.lri.fr/
GroupLab
The Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Groupware Research Laboratory, University of Calgary, Canada
http://grouplab.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/
"A group of us in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary are investigating CSCW, groupware and HCI. CSCW projects have wide coverage, from asynchronous to real time conferencing, and from same-place to geographically distributed meetings. HCI projects concern usability of World Wide Web browsers and personal information management."
Publications: http://grouplab.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/papers/
Human-Computer Interaction
Department of Information Technology
Uppsala University, Sweden
http://www.hci.uu.se/
Human-Computer Interaction
Department of Information Science
Uppsala University, Sweden
http://www.dis.uu.se/mdi/
Human-Computer Interaction
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University, USA
http://www.slis.indiana.edu/research/hci/
Human Computer Interaction Institute (HCII)
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
http://www.hcii.cmu.edu/
Human Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL)
University of Maryland, USA
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/
The Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL) conducts "interdisciplinary research on theory and design of interactive systems that enable users to perform tasks, learn skills, and communicate in a predictable atmosphere of competence, control, and satisfaction."
Publications: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/pubs/tech-reports.shtml
Human Oriented Technology Lab (HOT Lab)
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
http://www.carleton.ca/hotlab/
Information, Media and Communication Group (IMC)
Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, UK
http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/research/imc/
"Information, Media and Communication is a multi-disciplinary group concerned with the conceptual analysis of information and the development of effective technologies for its representation, distribution and use."
Publications: http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/research/imc/publications/publications-layout.shtml
Human Factors Research Group (HFRG)
University College Cork (UCC), Ireland
http://www.ucc.ie/hfrg/
Human Interface Technology Laboratory (HITL)
University of Washington, USA
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/
"The Human Interface Technology Laboratory is a research and development lab in virtual interface technology."
Publications: http://www.hitl.washington.edu/publications/index.html
Interactive Media Lab (IML)
Formerly Multimedia/Usability Lab
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
http://anarch.ie.utoronto.ca/
Publications: http://anarch.ie.utoronto.ca/publications/
Interactive Systems Research Center
Information Systems Department
UMBC (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Baltimore, MD, USA
http://www.isrc.umbc.edu/
IPO, Center for User-System Interaction
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (Eindhoven University of Technology), The Netherlands
http://www.ipo.tue.nl/ipo/
"IPO is an internationally renowned center for multidisciplinary scientific research on user-system interaction."
Publications: http://www.ipo.tue.nl/ipo/publications.html
Lab for Automation Psychology (LAB)
University of Maryland, USA
http://lap.umd.edu/
Publications: http://lap.umd.edu/lap/Publications.html
Software Usability Research Laboratory (SURL)
Deptartment of Psychology
Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, USA
http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/
"The Software Usability Research Laboratory (SURL) is a service division to the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Laboratory at Wichita State University, which solicits contracts from industry to conduct software usability analyses and research. Our current focus is website usability, information retrieval on the Web, website design, and web menu selection techniques."
Swinburne Computer Human Interaction Laboratory (SCHIL)
School of Information Technology
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
http://www.it.swin.edu.au/centres/schil/
User Interface Research Group (UIR)
Xerox PARC
http://www.parc.xerox.com/istl/projects/uir/
Publications: http://www.parc.xerox.com/istl/projects/uir/pubs/
