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Welcome to the SLIIT HCI Research Group which aims to act a focal point for human computer interaction research across the SLIIT and beyond.



About Us

The Human Computer Interaction Research Group (SLIIT-HCI) is one of the leading research groups in the Faculty of Computing (FOC) at the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT).


  • VISION

To be the flagship Human Computer Interaction Research Group representing Sri Lanka in the international research community

  • MISSION

To create a friendly, enthusiastic, and encouraging research environment for researchers from all levels specializing in Human Computer Interaction and overlapping research fields within SLIIT and Sri Lanka, promoting high quality research, good organizational practices, new opportunities for researchers to work to their strengths, mutual encouragement and collaboration.

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Research Publications

 

Completed and Ongoing Research Projects

  • ALL
  • HCI Group
  • CDAP

Marking Automation

An automatic grading tool for programming assignments using a domain-specific-language to specify marking scheme

BAMM

Bring Across My Music (BAMM) is a project which brings you an exceptional list of songs that relates the most to what you feel.

Covid-19 Resilience Study

SMTEC

This study is a comparison of Mobile Text Entry in Sinhala with the use of Helakuru and Gboard (Google keyboard).

MAPPY

‘MAPPY’ can address Emotional disorders with the help of Artificial intelligence as well as Machine Learning to help people in a better way.

Code mixed text conversion using Neural Machine Translation

This research mainly focuses on analysing the codemixed texts used in SriLanka and converting it to a standard language

Edugame

Wreckit

Applicant Rank

Marking Automation

Data Driven Marking Automation : Neural networks and Deep learning

Automated Speech and Dialogue Management System

Development of Novel Automated Speech and Dialogue Management System to Screen Small Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Sri Lanka

Gaze and Attention Analysis

Gaze and Attention Analysis: Computer Vision, Deep Learning

Singing to spoken voice

Singing to spoken voice: A machine learning based approach

Automatic Speech Recognition System

Development of Novel Automatic Speech Recognition System for ASD Screening Indicators of Infants and Young Children in Sri Lanka

SLIIT HCI Module

Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is the study of interaction between people (users) and computing devices. HCI is an interdisciplinary field, because to design user interfaces we must understand the user, so we need Behavioral Sciences, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science involved with Computer Science. In HCI, computer scientists, engineers, psychologists, social scientists and design professionals play important roles.


Latest News

  • A Discussion on Industry Trends and Careers in HCI / UX

    An awareness session for students and academics, on "Industry Trends and Careers in HCI/UX" was successfully held online, on Saturday 10th October 2020. ...
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  • First ACM-SIGCHI Meetup at SLIIT

    The First ACM-SIGCHI meet-up organised by SLIIT-HCI research group in collaboration with Colombo SIGCHI Chapter was successfully held on Wednesday, 23rd September 2020 at the Mini Auditorium. This was a panel discussion on "Positioning HCI for Computer Science". ...
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  • Algothon Workshop

    MS Club in SLIIT collaborating with FOCC community commenced a series of training sessions for SLIIT CODEFEST Algothon competition on 10th August 2020 at 7.00 p.m. ...
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  • CODEFEST - Algothon

    CODEFEST is a nationwide Software Competition organized by the Faculty of Computing of Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) in every year...
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  • HCI meeting - 10th Anniversary

    HCI group successfully had their 10th anniversary meeting on 12th August 2020 at 2.30p.m to 3.30p.m with 74 participants...
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  • CODEFEST -Designathon

    CODEFEST is a nationwide Software Competition organized by the Faculty of Computing of Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) in every year....
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  • HCI Module delivery started

    Making the transition with confidence, SLIIT had delivered lectures to students via the institution’s advanced online platform....
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  • HCI Teams meetings

    HCI Group started and continuing successfully with online meetings using MS Teams because of COVID – 19. We had bi-weekly meetings and now we have strong HCI group with 34 members....
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  • HCI Consultancy Services

    HCI Group started and continuing successfully with online meetings using MS Teams because of COVID – 19....
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Contact

Location:

Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, New Kandy Road, Malabe