Welcome to the interact lab at the University of Sussex

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 Pervasive Playful Learning  Creativity and Embodied Interaction

We take a user-centred approach to understanding and designing for interactions between people and technologies in everyday contexts. We are particularly interested in new possibilities enabled by pervasive/ubiquitous sensors, wireless networks, tangible and handheld devices. We design and evaluate deployments in authentic environments and reflect on these to develop theories and methods that are used in turn for design.


Latest news

Worlshop on 'emotion in HCI' accepted for British HCI 2009 conference.This follows on from the 2008 workshop.

Enabling Participatory Science. Workshop at AIED '09  in Brighton, July 6-10. e-Science Usability researchers invite you to participate. 

Mobile Pod launched for e-Missions. e-Science Usability researchers collaborate on outreach activities with local schools.

Video game usability lab. University of Sussex announces the UK's first dedicated video games usability lab.

Workshop 1 at CHI 2009. Age matters: Bridging the generation gap through technology-mediated interaction.

Workshop 2 at CHI 2009. Evaluating new interactions in healthcare: challenges and approaches.

New projects in the lab. We are now working on Motivating Mobility, Supporting Shy Users in Pervasive Computing and Electronic Health Records.  And e-Science continues.

Funding news. Google funding award to communicate about HCI in schools.