User Interface Research (UIR) is a research group in the Information Sciences & Technology Lab at PARC. Our charter is to develop new techniques for people to interact with large information environments. On the one hand, we have computer scientists working on new user interface paradigms; on the other hand, we have cognitive scientists working on the technical analysis of human behavior in information environments.
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