Thámien Ohlone AR Tour
A community-engaged augmented reality tour that brings Ohlone stories and site-specific media to the Santa Clara University campus.
We study how to keep people at the center of technology.
Our research spans digital wellbeing, community-engaged augmented reality, and human–AI collaboration.
Lab groupSCU HCI Lab photo collection.
Current projects
Systematic Mobile App Review
Building tools and methods to systematically find, collect, and analyze mobile apps.
Generative UI: Jacaranda
Exploring how AI can help people combine features across websites while preserving their control over a custom workspace.
Design for ADHD
Studying how people with ADHD experience digital distraction and use tools for attention and time management.
Recent work
Jacaranda poster accepted to UIST
The poster on user-editable web experiences is to appear in the UIST 2026 adjunct proceedings.
Generating the Modal Worker at FAccT
A study of race and gender in personas generated by four language models across 41 occupations.
SMAR at TETHICON
The team shared a poster and live demo of its tool for studying mobile app ecosystems.
People
Students, faculty, and community partners contribute to the lab’s research. Students work on project design, software development, and research studies.
Lab director and PhD studentsJoin the lab
Information for undergraduate, master’s, and prospective PhD students, and research collaborators.