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Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization

HCI researchers at Google have enormous potential to impact the experience of Google users as well as conduct innovative research. Grounded in user behavior understanding and real use, Google’s HCI researchers invent, design, build and trial large-scale interactive systems in the real world. We declare success only when we positively impact our users and user communities, often through new and improved Google products. HCI research has fundamentally contributed to the design of Search, Gmail, Docs, Maps, Chrome, Android, YouTube, serving over a billion daily users. We are engaged in a variety of HCI disciplines such as predictive and intelligent user interface technologies and software, mobile and ubiquitous computing, social and collaborative computing, interactive visualization and visual analytics. Many projects heavily incorporate machine learning with HCI, and current projects include predictive user interfaces; recommenders for content, apps, and activities; smart input and prediction of text on mobile devices; user engagement analytics; user interface development tools; and interactive visualization of complex data.  

There are 385 Publications of Google researchers

some of those are here >

Analyza: Exploring Data with Conversation

Kedar Dhamdhere, Kevin McCurley, Mukund Sundararajan, Qiqi Yan, Ralfi Nahmias
Intelligent User Interfaces 2017, ACM, Limassol, Cyprus (to appear)

  

We call it Hi-Fi": Exposing Indian Households to High Speed Broadband Wireless Internet

Nithya Sambasivan, Gulzar Azad, Paul M. Aoki, Saswati Saha Mitra
ICTD '16, ACM, Ann Arbor, MI, USA (2016) (to appear)

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HCI and Robotics are very sparingly intersecting sets, they have not much in common, see this diagram for a quick illustration.

Robotics and HCI are both intriguing fields and full of potential, but if you interested in building machines to solve automation problems then your way forward is Robotics; on the other hand if you are interested in building interfaces for any kind of machines ( from mobile apps to drone remote pilot systems ) then HCI is the field for you. If you want work in robotics after doing an HCI course then you should aim for human driven robots encompassing telerobots.