The Interaction Design and Human Practice Lab (IDHuP) of UTS, is where Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Interaction Design, User Experience, and Participatory Design research is done.
Designing digital technologies
Interaction Design is an emerging area of design research and practice that is concerned with those aspects of the design of interactive technology that shape people’s experience when they use the technology. It is the design of the potentials for possible action by real, living people when they use information and communications technologies to support, mediate and/or enable their activities in some way.
Our core belief at the IDHuP lab, is that digital technologies need to be useful and usable. They need to be designed, developed and implemented to maximise human agency and benefit. An understanding of actual human practice and experience are fundamental to our research and this is reflected in the design of our projects and in the interdisciplinary approaches, techniques and methodologies we use.
IDHuP researchers are interested in developing further research projects in areas that include:
- The design and use of digital technologies to support richer and more meaningful experiences in different aspects of life.
- The design and use of digital technologies to support greater sense of social, physical and digital wellbeing.
- The design and use of mobile and social technologies in developing countries and communities.
- The design and use of appropriate technologies for communities where issues of colonisation, the lack agency and social discrimination as well as isolation are of concern.
- The extension of human-centred – especially participatory design approaches into novel, complex and or emerging areas of technology design and use.