Human-Centered Technologies

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Championing the Human in 
Information Technology

The Human-Centered Technologies Group is located in the Technology Test and Evaluation Division of the Information Technology Laboratory. The Group performs research to develop user-centered measurement and evaluation methods, guidelines, and standards by applying human factors, cognitive science, user-centered design, and usability principles to improve human system interaction. We are a multi-disciplinary group of human factors engineers and computer scientists.

Using a human-centered design approach, we develop and design systems to make these interactive systems more usable. We focus on the user of the system and apply human factors, usability knowledge and usability techniques.

**Note: As of April 2026, the NIST Visualization and Usability Group is becoming the Human-Centered Technologies Group! This name change better reflects the breadth of our human-centered research portfolio and methods. Our purpose remains the same: to champion the human in information technology.

Current Projects

Human-Centered Cybersecurity

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Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

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Voting Usability

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Usability Standards

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