人机交互（HCI）传统上一直是工程学和心理学领域。在这里，我们从设计的角度进行处理。我们的重点不只是简单地使用技术来解决问题。这是关于创造一种技术体验，该体验将对使用它的人起作用，直观，甚至令人愉悦。人机交互设计（HCI / d）程序的目标是教您像设计师一样思考。我们的方法是基于研究的，但绝不会死板。尽管学生遵循高度结构化的课程为自己的职业生涯做准备，但仍有大量追求个人兴趣的空间。学生必须成功完成研究生级课程工作的九十（90）学分。
Human-computer interaction design (HCI/d) creates amazing possibilities, from massive-scale collaboration systems like Wikipedia to everyday innovations such as personal health tracking. But interactive systems also contribute to serious social problems, such as e-waste, privacy concerns, and unequal access. This track is designed to change the way you think. Youll go beyond using technology to solve a problem, to creating a technology experience that will be functional, intuitive, and even delightful for users. With this track, youll learn to think like a designer. Human-computer interaction design research is more geared toward supporting interventionstoward bringing about better possible futuresthan about describing the past or even the present. Human computer interaction design opens up possibilities, such as the following: massive scale collaborative systems like Wikipedia, global hardware/fabrication networks, as seen, for example, in the maker movement, educational applications of augmented and virtual reality, new forms of democratic participation in government, innovations in everyday life, such as personal health tracking, and entertainment computing, such as videogames.