HCI researchers at Google have enormous potential to impact the experience of Google users as well as conduct innovative research. Grounded in user behavior understanding and real use, Google’s HCI researchers invent, design, build and trial large-scale interactive systems in the real world. We declare success only when we positively impact our users and user communities, often through new and improved Google products. HCI research has fundamentally contributed to the design of Search, Gmail, Docs, Maps, Chrome, Android, YouTube, serving over a billion daily users. We are engaged in a variety of HCI disciplines such as predictive and intelligent user interface technologies and software, mobile and ubiquitous computing, social and collaborative computing, interactive visualization and visual analytics. Many projects heavily incorporate machine learning with HCI, and current projects include predictive user interfaces; recommenders for content, apps, and activities; smart input and prediction of text on mobile devices; user engagement analytics; user interface development tools; and interactive visualization of complex data.
Recent publications
Beyond the repo: best practices for open source ecosystems researchers
ACM Queue, vol. 21 (2023), pp. 14-34
Practicing Information Sensibility: How Gen Z Engages with Online Information
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2023)
Understanding Digital-Safety Experiences of Youth in the U.S.
The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM (2023)
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