HCI Research Ideas
A growing repository of ideas I would like to pursue in my academic journey
Total ideas: 100
Idea 1
Portable Dyson Spheres: creating a bubble of perpetual energy generation around the earth.
- Portable Dyson Spheres: creating a bubble of perpetual energy generation around the earth.
- Brain-computer interfaces for animals: allowing pet owners to have a deeper connect with their companions
- Peer reinforcement treatment for people with ADHD: can robots do a better job?
- Personal Robots: exploring a life where personal robots are coexisting with humans and helping in everyday tasks
- Modern Signage: how do we take something as simple as signage to the modern age
- Continuing where Swartz left off: free information for everyone
- Leveraging randomness for cryptography
- How can humans be more reliant on each other?
- Generating code art through movement and randomness of everyday life
- Can we catalogue and access memories physically?
- Ambient computing: automatically adjusting your life based on your feelings and body/ brain signals
- Invisible Interfaces: what do interfaces look like without tangible interfaces? Humane Pin is a great example
- Ubiquitous Information: storing and retrieving information at will
- What is the Technology 2.0?
- AI Companionship: ethics, safety and society
- What do we call AI interacting with AI?
- How do we turn imagination to reality?
- Create tangible outputs out of non-tangible actions?
- What makes us, us? Exploring the human condition through experiments in design and technology
- What is the future of money? Inspired by Ubik by P. K. Dick
- Humane Artificial Intelligence
- Social Computing: navigating the webs of society. Can it help better define social function of each human being?
- Dreams: can they be useful tools to augment our memories?
- Human memory: tangible loci for rapid information retrieval
- What does life look like for Humans 2.0?
- Generative environment: can our surroundings adapt based on our needs?
- Hacking culture: how do we change culture?
- What if jobs didn’t exist?
- What if everyone got free money?
- What if everyone ruled the world equally?
- Digital Safety for Children
- Digital Wellbeing for Children
- Urban mobility: future of personal travel in urban jungles
- Advertising data banks: ethical and consensual approach to personal information mining
- How do we achieve more meaningful content consumption?
- Collaborative Artificial Intelligence: Minority Report but less dystopian
- Material Interaction: cyberfabrics? cyberceramics? cyber-glass?
- Human-AI Interaction
- Can we plant a building?
- Designing for special needs: how granular can we go?
- How does environment and upbringing affect creativity?
- Can we think like someone or something else? Imagine presets for your brain that enable thinking like different people or even animals
- What does a self-sufficient world look like?
- Reverse biomimicry: can we model our surroundings based on how humans are built?
- Affective computing: emotion reactive interfaces
- Human-Robot societies
- Emergency preparedness for mega-disasters: think airlifting an entire city
- Biohacking: without physical harm or medical procedures
- Ethical algorithms: no algorithmic bias
- Portable Quantum Computers
- What is the future of Computers? Transistors are nearing the size of atoms. Is there a performance peak we will achieve? Or is there a new realm waiting?
- Ethics of space exploration: we can’t treat other bodies like Earth.
- Asteroid Mining: Trillionaire maker?
- Designing for aging populations: how do we ensure seamless transition?
- The future of gig economy workers in india
- Building generative art out of randomness in everyday life
- What if we could change our brain? Presets and other models of thinking at will. Think like a dolphin?
- How do we talk to influential people of the past? Socrates, Plato, Euler. Einstein, Hendrix all come alive for conversations
- Butterfly effect of decision making: what if we did one little thing differently 20 years back? Making sense of alternate realities
- Facilitating deeper connection and collaboration among remote/ distributed teams
- A better way of visualising health and bioinformatic data
- What does an ideal city look like?
- Human-machine integration: what if a robot was working in the seat next to you? (inspired by Interstellar)
- UX/UI of quantum computers
- What is the future of democracy and governance?
- Designing for quantum information
- Tangible Bits, Atoms and Interfaces: how do we make computers invisible and provide more value to users?
- Personal Data sprawl: a better way to manage personal data and information?
- Grand Unified Design
- Visualising higher dimensions
- The future of food and nutrition
- Decentralised societies
- Circular cities: a self-sufficient area that gives and takes equally
- Future of trust and verification: central repository of “truth”
- How do we design for a population that doesn’t exist?
- The future of education: providing high quality personalised education for all. Can robots help?
- Bulletproof reputation systems: electing those who actually deserve to lead
- The future of movies and media: what if you are the main character living inside a movie?
- A world with no crime: what does human society look like with only peace?
- The future of work: reducing overhead and spending more time doing quality work
- What does ideal life look like?
- What is the point where technology plateaus?
- Invisible wearables: how do we allow wearables to be non-intrusive and provide more value to users?
- Augmenting humans: treating our bodies as a technological canvas with add-ons and accessories that allow us to do more
- Can we create geniuses? What if we come up with a blueprint?
- The future of gaming: what if we could put ourselves inside a game?
- Folding@home / PCMR: what are some other applications of distributed computing for social good?
- How do we develop a intuitive way of understanding complex concepts in mathematics and the sciences
- Designing better communication systems for families in different parts of the world
- Designing for family resilience and support systems for single parents
- How can we conduct more authentic and seamless user research and participant studies?
- The future of trade schools: what are skills that will be useful 100 years from now?
- A better way of monetary borrowing in times of need: can we have a less predatory form of loans?
- Designing innovative homes for large / multi-generational families
- Exploring the relationship between brain development and the early adoption of learning technology for small children
- Designing support systems for families with specially abled members
- Using design, data visualisation and technology to create stronger bonds between families
- Reactive and iterative physical data visualisation tools that help people lead a better life using numbers
- What is the future of personal and communication devices? How do we seamlessly integrate them into our daily lives without having to carry them around? The Humane AI Pin is a great example.
- Generative interfaces: what if we generate interfaces based on user prompts?
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