Human-Centered Design (HCD) Lab
We investigate methods, techniques, and tools to support diverse stakeholders (e.g., designers, users, developers, and domain experts) in engaging in the collaborative user-centered design activities in various contexts, including serious games, software engineering tools, safety-critical systems, and applications involving emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and mixed reality. Our research topic includes usability engineering, interaction design patterns, design systems, and other design tools. Our methodology, rooted in both human-computer interaction and empirical software engineering, is fundamentally centered on the human stakeholders of software systems.
We are recruiting!!
- If you are interested in joining the HCD lab as a PhD or Master’s student, please email (1) your CV, (2) a short cover letter explaining your interests, and (3) any writing samples or portfolio to Prof. Jinghui Cheng. Here are some possible projects: https://bit.ly/2UI43rn.
Members

Jazlyn Hellman
PhD student
(Co-supervised with Prof. Jin Guo at McGill University)

Mitra Lashkari
Master's student

Banafsheh Mohajeri
Master's student

Mohammad Nikghalb (Nik)
Master's student

Arghavan Sanei
PhD student

Varun Shiri
Master's student

Atefeh Shokrizade
Master's student

Andrey Sobolevsky
Master's student
(Co-supervised with Prof. Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau and Prof. Jin Guo)

Souleima Zghab
PhD student
Alumni

Maryam Abedi
Master's student
(Co-supervised with Prof. Bram Adams)

Vishakha Agrawal
Summer intern

Roberto Araya-Day
Research intern

Mohamed Ayadi
Research intern

Esther Dufour
Research intern

Isabella Ferreira
PhD student
(Co-supervised with Prof. Bram Adams)

Olivia Gelinas
Master's student

Audrey Labrie
Undergraduate student

Yassine Lamine
Master’s student

Yonghan Lin
Summer intern

Mohammad Amin Mozaffari
Master's student

Ahlaam Rafiq
Summer intern

Renganathan Ramasamy
Research intern

Robin Roux
Summer intern

Shuvam Shah
Summer intern

Nasim Sharbatdar
Master’s student
(Co-supervised with Prof. Catherine Morency)

Md. Sami Uddin
Postdoctoral Researcher
(Co-supervised with Prof. Jin Guo)

Cheryl Wang
Master’s student
(Co-supervised with Prof. Jin Guo at McGill University)

Charles Zhang
Summer intern