The Human-Computer Interaction Lab is a research facility in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Saskatchewan. We carry out research in computer-supported cooperation, next-generation interfaces, computer games, affective computing, surface computing, and information visualization.

Regan Mandryk University of Saskatchewan

Carl Gutwin University of Saskatchewan

	Gaming for Fitness Approximately one in two adults in industrialized countries are physically inactive. This lifestyle contributes to dramatically increasing rates of obesity.
	Affective Computing Evaluation of a user's emotional experience with technology is not well understood, especially when the primary goal of a technology is to entertain (e.g., computer game) or to invoke an emotional experience (e.g., animated film).
	Granular Synthesis Summary Granular synthesis is a library that allows dynamic real time sampling of multiple sound sources within a sound space based on customized input directives.

Software for visualization and coordination of the distributed simulation modeling process Xue, Y. (2012) M.Sc. Thesis, University of Saskatchewan. http://code.google.com/p/uofs-silver-hg/.

Why Expressiveness Matters in Command & Control Visualizations Genest, A., Bateman, S., Tang, A., Scott, S., Gutwin, C. (2012), ACM CSCW Workshop on Crisis Informatics, Workshop organized by Volkmar Pipek, Jonas Landgren, and Leysia Palen..

The Search Dashboard: How Reflection and Comparison Impact Search Behavior Bateman, S., Teevan, J., White, R. (2012), CHI 2012, Austin, Texas.