About the Laboratory

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We are an interdisciplinary group of software engineers and psychologists conducting research into issues that arise out of interactions between humans and computers as well as fundamental issues in human perception and cognition. Our research interests include processes and techniques for the development and evaluation of interactive systems, the empirical evaluation of human-computer interaction techniques, software architectures for interactive systems, the human visual system, and the cognitive factors relating to time and memory.

The Symbiotic Computing Laboratory is based in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Royal Military College of Canada and includes members from that department as well as RMC's Department of Military Psychology and Leadership. The laboratory was founded in the fall of 2003, but continues individual threads of research dating back considerably farther.

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About the Name

The laboratory's name is taken from J.C.R. Licklider's visionary paper Man-Computer Symbiosis, originally published in the March 1960 issue of IRE Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics. The paper is available as Digital Systems Research Center Research Report 61 (local PDF copy). More than forty years later Lick's vision remains powerful, compelling, and largely unrealized.

Contact Information

For further information, please contact the Director of the Symbiotic Computing Laboratory.