Three established research pipelines
BAT Lab research examines how people interact with intelligent systems, how technology can accommodate differences across users, and how interfaces can adapt their communication and behavior in real time.
BAT Lab research ecosystem
We study how intelligent technology understands people, broadens access, and communicates through adaptive interfaces.
Collaborative intelligence
Understanding how people and intelligent systems share information, control, and responsibility.
Empowering access
Designing technology across age, ability, sensory function, cognition, and mobility.
Seamless interaction
Adapting how intelligent systems communicate according to the user and real-time context.
Emerging connections
Collaboration framework
The framework describes real-time collaboration through Advisor, Co-Pilot, and Guardian roles. It also informs when adaptive human–machine interfaces interfaces should explain, share control, or intervene.
ExploreExpanding direction
Embodied intelligence places AI within physical systems that sense, communicate, and act. Current applications include mobility, education, smart homes, workplaces, and assistive technology.
Research questions
Each area is anchored by a distinct set of questions about how intelligent systems understand people, broaden access, and adapt in context.
This pipeline examines how people interact and collaborate with automated and AI-enabled systems, particularly in time- and safety-critical settings. Current work studies human states, trust, well-being, and the transfer of roles between people and intelligent systems.
This pipeline develops technologies for diverse users across age, ability, and mobility contexts. The research accounts for individual differences through wearable support, accessible mobility, smart environments, healthcare applications, and personalized technology.
Human-machine interfaces connect people and intelligent systems. This pipeline develops visual, auditory, tactile, and wearable interfaces that can adapt their modality, timing, intensity, pattern, and placement according to human states and the surrounding context.
Research network
We work with academic, public, nonprofit, and industry partners to translate human-centered research into practical impact.
