HCI at The University of Tennessee
HCI at UT is a multidisciplinary consortium of faculty and students who carry out research in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI). Currently, our research areas include online news and multimedia problems, studies of unsafe media platforms and disinformation, malicious information behavior across the web, machine learning, mobile security, smart healthcare, artificial intelligence, crowdsourcing, cognitive science, software engineering, large-scale data analysis, cybersecurity, privacy, usability research, security solutions, mental models and perceptions, and novel security technologies.
The consortium includes specialized research labs, faculty, and programs in the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The School of Information Sciences, and the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering. Collaborations span these individual labs and research partners that span industry, such as Microsoft Research, Mozilla Research and more, alongside other academic institutions. The consortium is interconnected by the “Tennessee HCI Seminar Series” that provides faculty, students, and invited speakers with a platform for sharing cutting-edge research about the nature of people, interaction, and technology.
Our research group’s work has been published in top venues, such as AAAI, ACM CCS, ACM Hypertext, ACM MobiCom, ACM MobiSys, ACM SenSys, ACM UbiComp, CHI, Computers in Human Behavior Reports, CSCW, ICSE, ICWSM, IEEE, IEEE, INFOCOM, S&P, UbiComp, UIST, and USENIX Security; and regularly featured in the media, including in the BBC News, Business Insider, IEEE Spectrum, Mashable, MIT, Technology Review, NBC New York, Voice of America TV, WCBS TV, and Yahoo News.