Interested in Human-Robot Interaction?
Start by familiarizing yourself with the main conferences and journals in the field
- The Journal of HRI
- The Int’l Conference on HRI (ACM/IEEE)
- The In’l Journal of Social Robotics
- The In’l Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
Other Venues that Publish HRI Work
- CHI
- Movement and Computing
- RSS
- T-RO
- IJRR
Graduate Programs in HRI
A continuously growing, and clearly biased, list of places you can study HRI for your Masters or PhD
- MIT Media Lab Personal Robots Group
- MIT Interactive Robotics Group
- GATech Socially Intelligent Machines Lab
- CMU HRI @ HCI Institute
- UW Personal Robotics Lab @ UW CSE
- U Wisconsin-Madison HRI @ HCI Lab
- U Washington CS and Engineering
- U Washington Human-Centered Design and Engineering
- U British Columbia CARIS Lab
- Colorado School of Mines MIRROR Lab
If your lab or department has a graduate program in HRI research, drop me a line!
Graduate Programs in HCI / UX / Interaction Design
A continuously growing, and clearly biased, list of places you can study HCI, User Experience or Interaction Design for your graduate degree
- MIT Media Lab
- Parsons Design and Technology
- NYU ITP
- CMU HCI Institute and Design
- RISD Digital+Media
- UCLIC
- U Washington HCI+D and HCD+E
- Stanford HCI
- Stanford Design
- UC San Diego Design Lab
- SVA Interaction Design MFA
- Georgia Tech HCI and Human-Centered Computing
- U Wisconsin-Madison HCI @ CS
- Cornell Information Science
- Royal College of Art Design Interactions
- UPF Barcelona Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media
- Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design
If your lab or department has a graduate program in HCI / UX /IxD, drop me a line!
Since this is a very short list, here are a couple of other good places to start to look for HCI, User Experience or Interaction Design graduate degrees:
- Hezi Taniani’s List of HCI Masters Programs (a little dated but still informative)
- Human Factors International Graduate Program List
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Graduate Program List
If you are more generally interested in robotics, this Robotics Resource Guide has a lot of trailheads to explore. And for a great list of links for inventors, about everything between woodworking and programming, check out the Junior Handyman’s Toolkit. (Thanks to Liza Goodwin for the tip!)