The Human-Centered Experiential Technologies (HAX) lab follows a user-centered design process to create and maintain public research systems to augment human information interactions. We are human-computer interaction system researchers applying methods from social computing and human-centered AI to create high-quality data and personalized solutions. We continuously improve our real-world systems to attract, motivate, and support everyday users in the wild.

We are currently building new systems and growing the lab! We are open to to collaborations with industry, non-profits, and academia. Please email Shaun if you are a student at URI interested in joining. :)

We are part of the Department of Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Rhode Island (URI). Our research has been supported by and collaborates with The Readability Consortium, Adobe, Google, NASA, and the United States Air Force.

Are you a University of Rhode Island student interested in joining the lab and building systems and conducting research? Awesome! Please fill out this form and Shaun will be in touch. :)

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