Centre for Human Centred Technology Design

The Centre for Human Centred Technology Design (HCTD) is committed to information and communications technology design research, methods and approaches, as defined by its commitment to the human, that is, to those who will use the technology.

HCTD's approach furthers the development of a much needed socio-technical perspective on technology design that can both balance and extend the more common technology driven or management driven perspectives. HCTD's focus is on understanding the complex interplay between the drivers of social, organisational and technical change and how these shape, and are shaped by, the design, implementation and use of information and communication systems. The Centre's research outcomes contribute to the design and development of ICT that fit easily and appropriately into the social, cultural and organisational contexts within which they will be used.

Centre Directors

Co-Director: Associate Professor Didar Zowghi
Co-Director: Associate Professor Toni Robertson

Laboratories and Contacts

Interaction Design and Work Practice Laboratory
Lab Director: Associate Professor Toni Robertson

Requirements Engineering Research Laboratory
Lab Director: Associate Professor Didar Zowghi

Creativity and Cognitive Studios
Lab Director: Professor Ernest Edmonds

Games Studio
Lab Director: Associate Professor Yusuf Pisan

IT Leadership
Lab Director: Associate Professor Ken Dovey

Centre for Object Technology Applications and Research (COTAR)
Lab Director: Professor Brian Henderson-Sellers

IT Education Research Laboratory
Lab Directors: Richard Raban and Andrew Litchfield