The Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Lab was established in 1994 by Dr. Bill Manaris. Its mission is twofold:

• to facilitate multidisciplinary research and development in user interfaces aiming to minimize the conceptual distance between human and machine; and

• to provide exposure, learning, and specialization opportunities in HCI for graduate and undergraduate students in Computer Science and related disciplines.

The Lab is affiliated with the Computer Science Department, the Center for Advanced Computer Studies, and the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Also see CMPS 452G -- User Interface Design.

The present location of the HCI Lab is Room 431 of the Conference Center building.  Space for usability experiments is located in Rooms 403 and 404.  Equipment includes Unix and MS Windows platforms and a wide variety of software environments. 

Active areas of research include speech understanding interfaces, dialog management, assistive technologies, web-accessible user interfaces, and multimodal interaction.

Support for the Lab is provided by the Louisiana Board of Regents, the National Science Foundation, and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.