Human Computer Interaction Research at IBM has a vibrant global community, and a long history.
Some of our larger research groups and centers are:
Center for Social Business
The Center works closely with corporate residents, university students and faculty, creating the industry's premier incubator for the research, development and testing of social software that is "fit for business".
User Sciences and Experience (USER Group)
The USER group focuses on understanding and improving how people interact with technology. Its goal is to improve the ease-of-use of existing products and explore new paradigms in using computers.
Social Computing Group
Social Computing has to do with designing computational systems that accommodate the social practices that are a fundamental part of the ways humans work, live and play.
Collaboration Technologies
The Collaboration Technologies group works in all areas of collaboration from social applications and social networks through synchronous collaboration to mobile collaboration and rich presence awareness.
Accessibility
The Accessibility Research group focuses on users who cannot access computers and information by using standard interfaces, such as people with visual impairment.
Spoken Web
The Spoken Web group aims to bring technology closer to users in developing regions by enabling information access through low-cost mobile devices.
Here is a brochure that highlights some of the capabilities of the earlier HCI activities at IBM Research.
Community News
- CHI 2012 Best Paper award: Pavel Gurevich - IBM Research, Haifa, Joel Lanir - University of Haifa, Benjamin Cohen - IBM Research, Haifa, Ran Stone - IBM Research, Haifa TeleAdvisor: A Versatile Augmented Reality Tool for Remote Assistance.
- CHI 2012 Best Paper award: Bonnie E. John - IBM Research, Sonal M Starr - IBM Software Group, Brian S Utesch - IBM Software Group Experiences with Collaborative, Distributed Predictive Human Performance Modeling - Long Case Study.
- CHI 2011 Best Paper award: Thomas Erickson, N. Sadat Shami, Wendy Kellogg, David Levine , IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (United States) Synchronous Interaction Among Hundreds: An Evaluation of a Conference in an Avatar-based Virtual Environment.
- CSCW 2012 Honorable Mention Paper: Michael Muller, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (United States) Lurking as Personal Trait or Situational Disposition? Lurking and Contributing in Enterprise Social Media.
- CHI 2011 Best paper honorable mention: Daisuke Sato, IBM Research - Tokyo (Japan) Shaojian Zhu, UMBC (United States) Masatomo Kobayashi, Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa, IBM Research - Tokyo (Japan) Sasayaki: Augmented Voice Web Browsing Experience.
- CHI 2011 Best paper honorable mention: Susumu Harada, Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa, IBM Research - Tokyo (Japan) On the audio representation of radial direction.
- CHI 2011 Best paper honorable mention: Jeff Sauro, Oracle, Measuring Usability LLC (United States) James Lewis, IBM (United States) When Designing Usability Questionnaires, Does It Hurt to Be Positive?
- CHI 2011 Best paper honorable mention: Reuse in the Wild: an Empirical and Ethnographic Study of Organizational Content Reuse Yelena Mejova, University of Iowa (USA) Klaar De Schepper, Columbia University (USA) Lawrence Bergman, Jie Lu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (USA) A large-scale study of content reuse networks in a large organization. Provides insight into organizational reuse patterns and guidance in building systems to support reuse.
- CHI 2011 Best paper honorable mention: Yannick Assogba, Irene Ros, Joan DiMicco, IBM (United States) Matt McKeon, Google (United States) Many Bills: Engaging Citizens through Visualizations of Congressional Legislation.
- CHI 2011 honorable mention notes: Bonnie John , IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (United States) Using Predictive Human Performance Models to Inspire and Support UI Design Recommendations.