Research Interests

We host a number of research groups investigating future computing interfaces (shape-changing interfaces, end-user fabrication, augumented and virtual reality, mobile interfaces and body-based user interfaces), sensing and tracking technologies, cooperative work practices, collaborative technologies and health information systems.

Labs and Resources

Our modern labs have a wide range of equipment. 

Extended Reality

We are a group of researchers studying and teaching extended and virtual reality (XR/VR/AR) at the Department of Computer Science. Our research includes designing interaction techniques for XR, developing methods to evaluate user interfaces for XR, and experimental studies about human–computer interaction with XR. 

Computer Supported Cooperative Work

We are an interdisciplinary research group that strives to understand the nature and requirements of cooperative work in order to design collaborative computational artifacts and technologies. 

FemTech

FemTech is a practice-based research programme that addresses the problem of how to facilitate inclusion in computing. We address this challenge by creating opportunities for people to engage in the development of interactive technologies, i.a. through workshops and events.

Health Informatics

Our overall aim in health informatics is to research, design and prototype information systems that improve the quality and efficiency in healthcare. 

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

Our research focuses on new sensing and tracking technologies, information visualization, shape change, and mobile user interfaces. New and innovative designs are empirically studied in collaboration with potential users. In our research we strive to build on an understanding of human needs and capabilities.

Fabrication Lab

We are a group of researchers studying, developing, and teaching digital fabrication technologies at the Department of Computer Science. Our research includes designing new software and hardware tools to design for and interact with digital fabrication machines and inventing new kinds of interfaces that can be built with digital fabrication machines.

Confronting Data Co-lab

Our aim is to ask the difficult questions about the data-driven technological directions our society is leaning towards. Questions in relations to ethical dilemmas about how and why we as individual citizens are taken there, and whether we really want our society to go in that direction.

TRACTION

Users of computers often find them frustrating, confusing, or less useful than they could be. One reason is that systems are designed without robust theories to predict their usefulness and usability. The goal of TRACTION is to develop such theories and show how they can be used to improve computer systems and invent new user interfaces for artificial intelligence, social media, and virtual reality.

Making hybrid senses

Making Hybrid Senses is an interdisciplinary project between UCPH Computer Science and Nordic Studies and Linguistics. The project explores hybrid senses–combining sensory inputs with the existing practices of visually impaired people to create new ways of perceiving, navigating, and interacting with the environment. Using ethnography and research-through-design, it investigates the everyday expertise of visually impaired users to develop assistive technologies that are meaningful, practical, and grounded in real-world practices.