SIGCHI Swiss Chapter intends to act as an umbrella organization bringing together experts from HCI groups at Swiss universities. In the following, we present a (not complete – so email thiemo.wambsganss@bfh.ch for any missing information) list of Swiss HCI groups that have been particularly active in recent years.

HCI Research Groups in Switzerland

University of Basel

MMI Group

Human-Machine Interaction at the Department of Psychology of the University of Basel, Basel (Klaus Opwis and others)
https://www.mmi-basel.ch/en/

Bern University of Applied Sciences

HAIS LAB

Human-Centered AI-based Systems (HAIS) Lab, Institut of Digitial Technology Management (Thiemo Wambsganss and others)

https://haislab.github.io/

Institut New Work

Institut New Work (Andreas Sonderegger and others)

https://www.bfh.ch/de/forschung/forschungsbereiche/new-work/

University of Fribourg

Human-IST Institute

Human-IST Institute, University of Fribourg, Fribourg (Denis Lalanne and others)
http://human-ist.unifr.ch/

HES-SO Fribourg

School of Management Fribourg

Digital Business Center, Maurizio Caon and others

https://www.heg-fr.ch/en/research-and-mandates/center/digital-business-center

University of St.Gallen

Human-Computer Interaction Lab

Institute of Computer Science, University of St.Gallen, St.Gallen (Johannes Schöning and others)

https://johannesschoening.de

Interaction-and Communication-based Systems

Institute of Computer Science, University of St.Gallen, St.Gallen (Simon Mayer and others)

https://ics.unisg.ch/chair-interactions-mayer/

Institute of Information Management

Institute of Information Management, University of St.Gallen, St.Gallen (Jan Marco Leimeister and others)

https://iwi.unisg.ch/lehrstuhl-leimeister/

University of Italian Switzerland

LUXIA – Laboratory of User Experience, Interaction & Accessibility

Research Group for User Experience, Interaction and Accessibility at the Faculty of Informatics of the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) (Monica Landoni and others)
https://luxia.inf.usi.ch/

Idiap Research Institute, Martigny

Social Computing Group

Daniel Gatica-Perez and others

https://www.idiap.ch/en/scientific-research/social-computing/

OST – Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences

IFS – Institute for Software (Markus Stolze, Frieder Loch, and others)

https://www.ost.ch/ifs

University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland

School of Engineering

Institute of Interactive Technologies, Arzu Çöltekin and others https://www.fhnw.ch/en/about-fhnw/schools/school-of-engineering/institutes/institute-for-interactive-technologies

IPM – Institute for Information and Process Management (Matthias Baldauf and others)

https://www.ost.ch/ipm

EPFL, Lausanne

CHILI Lab

Novel Interfaces for Learning, EPFL, Lausanne (Pierre Dillenbourg and others)
https://chili.epfl.ch/

EPFL+ECAL Lab

EPFL+ECAL Lab, Lausanne (Nicolas Henchoz and others)
http://www.epfl-ecal-lab.ch/

Human-Computer Interaction Group

HCI Group, EPFL, Lausanne (Pearl Pu and others)
https://hci.epfl.ch/members/pearl/

Media and Design Laboratory LDM

Media x Design Laboratory, EPFL, Lausanne (Jeffrey Huang and others)
https://www.epfl.ch/labs/ldm/

University of Lausanne

Persuasive Technology Lab

University of Lausanne, Lausanne (Mauro Cherubini and others)
http://wp.unil.ch/persuasivelab/

Information Security & Privacy Lab

University of Lausanne, Lausanne (Kévin Huguenin and others)
http://wp.unil.ch/isplab

University of Applied Sciences, Rapperswil

UIST Lab

HSR User-Interface Software Technology Lab (UIST-Lab), HSR University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil, (Markus Stolze and others)
https://ifs.hsr.ch/User-Interface-Technologie.12518.0.html

Ubiquitous Computing Research Group

Research Group for Ubiquitous Computing at the Faculty of Informatics of the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) (Marc Langheinrich and others)
https://uc.inf.usi.ch/

ETHZ, Zurich

AIT Lab

Advanced Interactive Technologies at the Department of Computer Science of ETH, Zurich (Otmar Hilliges and others)
https://ait.ethz.ch/index.php

COG Group

The Cognitive Science Group, ETH, Zürich (Christoph Hölscher and others)
https://cog.ethz.ch/

SIP Lab

The Sensing, Interaction & Perception Lab at the Department of Computer Science of ETH, Zürich (Christian Holz and others)
https://siplab.org/

IVIA Lab

Interactive Visualization & Intelligence Augmentation Lab (Menna El-Assady and others)

https://ivia.ethz.ch/

PEACH

Programming, Education, and Computer-Human Interaction Lab at the Department of Computer Science of ETH, Zürich (April Wang and others) https://aprilwang.me/