Human-Computer Interaction
at the University of Hawai`i

News and Information

Congratulations to Marc LePape and Ravi Vatrapu on their CHI-09 best paper nomination for: LePape, M., & Vatrapu, R. (2009). An experimental study of field dependency in altered Gz extreme environments. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2009), April 4-9, 2009, Boston, USA.

Upcoming conferences:
C&T, CHI-NL, IHCI, CHINZ, HCII, WoHCI, INTERACT, BCS HCI, MobileHCI, UIST, HFES, CHIHC, OZCHI, HICSS

CFPs:
OZCHI (12-Jun), HICSS (15-Jun), CHI2010 (17-Sep)

Aloha

"Human-computer interaction is a discipline concerned with the design, evaluation and implementation of interactive computing systems for human use and with the study of major phenomena surrounding them." [SIGCHI]

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is an increasingly important discipline with interesting fundamental and applied research questions and significant employment opportunities. [BoxesAndArrows] [HFCareers] [juju] [UPA]

Academic Programs

At the University of Hawai'i we have an unusually large number of faculty members and researchers in HCI and related areas. Graduate students may focus on HCI while working towards one of the following degrees:

Masters in Library and Information Science
M.S. or Ph.D. in Information and Computer Sciences
Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Communication and Information Sciences

More information about each program and the application process can be found in the Programs section.

Research

While pursuing a degree, students may be involved with one of several labs or research projects. Current significant areas of research include:

Adaptive interfaces
Affective computing
Bioinformatics
Cognitive load
Collaborative learning
Cross-cultural computing

Digital government
Natural language
Searching & querying
Social computing
User modeling
Virtual and extreme environments

More information about research opportunities can be found in the Research section.

Location and Contact Information

The University of Hawai'i Manoa campus is located on the island of Oahu in Honolulu, the capital city of the state of Hawai'i.

The main offices of the Department of Information and Computer Sciences, the Library and Information Science Program, and the Communication and Information Sciences Program are located in the Pacific Ocean Science and Technology (POST) building. [MAP]

For more information about the program, send e-mail to .