Announcements

Our heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Pourang Irani for being awarded a prestigious Rh Award for 2010. The Rh Award is the one of the highest honours given to young researchers at the University of Manitoba.
- 2011-04-21

Congratulations to Fouad Alallah on the successful completion of his MSc.
- 2011-04-05

We would like to welcome James Young to the Computer Science HCI Lab.
- 2011-01-18

MSc. student Khalad Hasan is awarded the University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowship (UMGF) for completing his graduate work. Congratulations to Khalad!
- 2010-07-01

Prof. Irani is awarded a CFI grant for setting up a Collaborative Visual Analytics lab. Matching funds are to come from the province and industry. Local UofM press on the CoVA lab can be found here.
- 2010-04-28

The LensMouse has been featured in an article by the Tech Transfer Office. It can be found here.
- 2009-11-04

The lab welcomed CEO of SAP, John Schwarz on his recent tour of the HCI lab
- 2009-09-24

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Hello, welcome to Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. Students and professors working in the lab are committed to exploring new and innovative research areas in human-computer interaction. We are currently carrying out research in a number of a different fields including:

  • Information visualization techniques
  • Animated visualizations
  • Tabletop displays
  • Large interactive displays
  • Novel input devices
  • Several other areas of HCI research

For more information on the research that we are currently conducting, please feel free to browse around the different pages in this website. The projects page will give you some information on the larger projects that are being worked on in the lab, and the publications and lab members pages should give you some more information about more specific areas of research. We are always open to new ideas, so feel free to visit our equipment page to see what kind of equipment our lab has, and to contact people about your ideas.

The University of Manitoba HCI Laboratory is also able to provide usability testing services. If you are are currently considering putting your software through some usability testing, you should consider our testing services. Please visit the Usability Services page for more information on the services we have to offer you.