Interactive Technologies Research Group

We study, design and develop interactive technologies. We are especially interested in human concerns in technology development: how to transform research and technical innovations into systems that through fluent interaction and positive user experience create something that users find worth using.

Our main research areas are as follows:

Eye-tracking and Intelligent Interfaces

Since 2003, we have been conducting research on the methodology of applied eye-movement tracking. We combine computer science and HCI approaches to build intelligent user interfaces that make use of eye-tracking data and other behavioral streams. Our application domains are, for example, complex-problem solving such as programming, medicine, and collaborative interactive systems.

Inclusive design

Advances in interactive technology should benefit all people. The reason why many users remain in the outskirts of information society is not that they could not use technology or would refuse to use it; it is because almost no technology has been designed and developed with their interests and needs in mind.

Empirical software engineering

We have a great experience in research around the improvement of software engineering tools, processes and methods for SME's. Since 2000's we have been running several externally funded projects in which we collaborated directly with the software companies. Our current projects deal with agile approaches to software development.