Successful IT products often push technical boundaries, but they also often meet—and even reveal—human needs and desires. As a field, HCI/d focuses on the ways that technologies can address needs that result in desired experiences. That is, HCI/d seeks to understand and advocate for users and other stakeholders, melding such insights with technologies to craft tools, systems, and services.
HCI/d at Indiana University is internationally recognized for its leadership in developing a design-oriented HCI research and practice. Integrating social science, aesthetic crafting, cutting edge technologies, and business strategy, this discipline is capable of envisioning and producing futures that are both desirable and impactful.