The IIHM research group is primarily concerned with interactive systems that match users’ needs and capabilities. Its scientific project is to elaborate new concepts, models, and software tools for designing, implementing, and evaluating interaction techniques and interactive systems that are easy to learn and provide for efficient use in various situations (usability dimensions) as well as to enhance users’ experience (aesthetic and affective dimensions). IIHM adopts a research approach that fruitfully combines conceptual (or analytical) and empirical studies. IIHM is pivotal in establishing conceptual problem spaces and taxonomies for a particular problem. IIHM also adopts an empirical research approach by conducting both controlled laboratory experiments and in-field evaluations to study interaction.

 

Structured into five research themes, our scientific project both expands graphical user interfaces and focuses on new interaction possibilities for ambient intelligence: