Human-Computer Interaction Research Group

The HCI group is situated within the Computational Foundry, and has its own co-creation space (the FIT Lab) as well as two user experience laboratories and two maker spaces which include the following equipment and much more:

• Maker equipment (3D printers, 3D scanner, laser cutters, CNC machines)
• Electronics lab equipment (e.g., soldering irons, multimeters, oscilloscopes, etc.)
• Electronic components and devices (e.g., Arduino kits, phones/tablets, prototyping components, sensors, etc.)
• Photographic equipment (e.g., SLRs, tripods, projectors, video cameras etc.)

Publications from the group can be found on the University's publication archive, Cronfa. Our areas of expertise include:

• Foundations and Futures:
  • Internet of Things, eyes-off interaction, deformable devices, VR/AR, gaming, haptics, robotics, self-powered interfaces, autonomous vehicles, brain-computer interfaces
• The Digital Divide:
  • HCI4D, emergent user settings, resource-constraint
  • Appropriate technologies for contexts
    • IVR systems, speech interfaces, safety-conscious interfaces, low-end devices, internet-independent devices
• Health and Wellbeing:
  • Digital health, medical errors, older people, disability, wearables for well-being, ML-based disease diagnostics, cloud-based medical wearables

The HCI group collaborates with a wide range of partners across both academia and industry. Here is a flavour of current and previous collaborators:

Academic:

• IIT Bombay Industrial Design Centre, University of Cape Town, Université Grenoble Alpes , University of Sussex, University of Bristol, University of Edinburgh, Newcastle University, Royal Holloway

Industry:

• Google, IBM, Microsoft Research, BBC R&D, Hewlett Packard, McAfee, NHS, DVLA, DST, HAB Housing, Gwalia Housing, Fram3 Limited, City and County of Swansea, Accelero, Blurrt, CodeX, TechHub Wales, Project 2020, We Predict, Leadin, SymlConnect, GPC Solutions

Want to collaborate with us? Please get in touch!

Current:

• EPSRC Grant EP/W020548/1 (£2,659,374): INCLUsive Digital Economy Network+: INCLUDE+
• EPSRC Grant EP/W025396/1 (£742,649): GENERATION: Self Powered IoT for People and Planet
• EPSRC Grant EP/W01257X/1 (£231,612): Rethinking Public Technology in a COVID-19 Era
• EPSRC Grant EP/T024976/1 (£970,668): Unmute: Opening Spoken Language Interaction to the Currently Unheard
• EPSRC Grant EP/S021892/1 (£4,992,682): EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Enhancing Human Interactions and Collaborations with Data and Intelligence Driven Systems

Previous:

• EPSRC Grant EP/R044929/1 (£1,006,664): Not-Equal: NetworkPlus on Social Justice through the Digital Economy
• EPSRC Grant EP/R032750/1 (£738,112): PV-Interfaces: Self-Powered Interfaces and Interactions via Photovoltaic Surfaces
• EPSRC Grant EP/N013948/1 (£822,223): Breaking the Glass: Multimodal, Malleable Interactive Mobile surfaces for Hands-In Interactions
• EPSRC Grant EP/M022722/1 (£3,091,610): The CHERISH-DE Centre - Challenging Human Environments and Research Impact for a Sustainable and Healthy Digital Economy
• EPSRC Grant EP/M00421X/1 (£710,784): Reshaping the Expected Future
• EPSRC Grant EP/G059063/1 (£5,820,840): CHI+MED: Multidisciplinary Computer-Human Interaction research for the design and safe use of interactive medical devices
• EPSRC Grant EP/J000604/2 (£1,053,172): Scaling the Rural Enterprise
• EPSRC Grant EP/G003971/1 (£361,993): UCLIC / FIT Lab PLATFORM: Healthy interactive systems : Resilient, Usable and Appropriate Systems in Healthcare
• EPSRC Grant EP/I00064X/1 (£254,586): Taking on the Teenagers
• EPSRC Grant EP/H02302X/1 (£1,050,295): IDEAS Factory - Detecting Terrorist Activities: Shades of Grey - Towards a Science of Interventions for Eliciting and Detecting Notable Behaviours
• EPSRC Grant EP/H042806/1 (£1,467,704): Sandpit: PATINA: Personal Architectonics Through INteractions with Artefacts
• EPSRC Grant EP/L019272/1 (£96,680): Discipline Hopping into Healthcare
• EPSRC Grant EP/K004549/1 (£493,092): The Global Hub in Medical Technologies and NanoHealth at Swansea University
• EPSRC Grant EP/I00145X/1 (£790,239): Swansea University :: Bringing People Together
• EPSRC Grant EP/I001778/1 (£134,610): Bridging the Rural Divide
• EPSRC Grant EP/G061882/1 (£906,522): Point of care nanotechnology for early blood clot detection and characterisation in disease screening, theranostic and self monitoring applications
• EPSRC Grant EP/F035071/1 (£33,826): ISIS: Protecting children in online social networks
• EPSRC Grant EP/F020031/1 (£606,346): Formally-based tools for user interface analysis and design
• EPSRC Grant EP/H042857/2 (£365,151): Community-generated media for the next billion
• EPSRC Grant EP/E042171/1 (£273,603): Multimodal, Negotiated Interaction in Mobile Scenarios
• EPSRC Grant EP/E006418/1 (£79,359): Bridging the Global Digital Divide Network
• EPSRC Grant EP/H017895/1 (£14,823): USA research trip: San Francisco, Pittsburgh, San Diego, Houston
• EPSRC Grant EP/F059116/1 (£176,183): A state of the art information-driven health care demonstrator: Combining advanced technologies in the gastro-intestinal field
• EPSRC Grant EP/F041217/1 (£260,699): Document Triage in the Information Seeking Process
• EPSRC Grant EP/E006396/1 (£79,817): StoryBank: Sharing stories across digital divides
• EPSRC Grant EP/H010394/1 (£16,437): Telling the StoryBank: An Exhibit for the British Science Association, Festival of Science 2009

HCI is embedded in the Computer Science Department's taught curriculum, whether in the various undergraduate programmes or our Human-Centred EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training. See the following courses and programmes for more information.

Postgraduate

• MSc Human-Centred Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
• MSc by Research: Human-Computer Interaction
• MRes Computing and Future Interaction Technologies
• PhD/MPhil/MSc by Research in Human-Computer Interaction
• EPSRC EPIC Centre for Doctoral Training in Enhancing Human Interactions and Collaborations with Data and Intelligence-Driven Systems

Undergraduate

• CSF399: Human-Computer Interaction
• CS-200: Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction
• CSC349: User Experience
• CSCM21: Abuses, Biases and Blessings of Data
• CSCM27: Human-Centred Visual Analytics
• CSCM39: Human-Computer Interaction
• CSCM69: Human-Centred Perspectives and Methods
• CSCM79: Hardware and Devices