Behavior, Accessibility & Technology Lab

Intelligent systems that adapt to people—in real time.

We develop and evaluate human-aware, accessible, and adaptive interfaces for mobility, work, healthcare, education, and embodied AI.

A living research system

Embodied intelligence in motion.

Roles move. Context changes. The animation below shows how people and AI can sense, coordinate, and adapt together—and links directly to the research behind it.

Featured researchEmbodied intelligence in motion

Explore how BAT Lab connects human context, collaborative AI roles, adaptive interfaces, and action.

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BAT Lab research ecosystem

Three established pipelines.

Our research moves from understanding people and intelligent systems, to designing for differences across users, to adapting the interfaces through which intelligence is communicated and acted upon.

Collaborative intelligence

Human–Intelligent Systems Interaction

Understanding how people and intelligent systems share information, control, and responsibility.

Human-aware

  • Mental States
  • Trust
  • Wellbeing

Intelligent Systems

  • Automated Vehicles
  • Smart Office
  • Smart Home

Empowering access

Assistive Technology & Accessibility

Designing technology across age, ability, sensory function, cognition, and mobility.

Aging and Disability

  • Non-chronological age
  • Cognitive impaired
  • Hearing impaired
  • Mobility impaired

Assistive Technology

  • Mobility
  • Smart workplace
  • Healthcare robotics
  • Personalized education

Seamless interaction

Adaptive Human–Machine Interfaces

Adapting how intelligent systems communicate according to the user and real-time context.

Multimodal HMIs

  • Visual Display
  • Auditory Display
  • Tactile Display

AI-Driven

  • Adaptive
  • Real-time
  • Wearable
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Research in development

Ideas taking shape across the three research areas.

Active · under development

Responsibility handoff

We are developing a human-centered account of how responsibility can move between people and role-adaptive AI as readiness, risk, and uncertainty change.

Collaboration framework

Triadic human–AI collaboration

Advisor, Co-Pilot, and Guardian roles offer a practical language for studying how assistance should change across situations.

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Embodied intelligence

From interface to action

We are extending human-centered AI from communication on a screen to systems that sense and act in mobility, work, health, and everyday environments.

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Latest from the lab

Research worth following.

Recent scholarship and news, with the full archive kept one click away.

Selected publications

Publication · 2025

Vibration Patterns That Persuade: A National Survey of Driver Preferences for Wrist-Worn Vibrotactile Displays in Automated Vehicle Takeover

Lo, W. H., & Huang, G.

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Publication · 2025

Directional vibrotactile takeover requests on a wrist-worn device: effects of age, pattern type, and urgency in automated driving

Lo, W. H., & Huang, G.

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Selected news

Research & Funding · July 2026

The BAT Lab received support from the MEMIC Safety Research Center for physical AI and office ergonomics research.

The project studies smart sensing and adaptive ergonomic interventions for reducing musculoskeletal-disorder risk in office work.

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Talks · July 2026

Dr. Huang presented “Who’s in Control? Designing the Future of Transportation with Humans and AI” for the Mineta Summer Transportation Academy.

The talk introduced high-school students to human–AI collaboration, intelligent transportation, and interface design.

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Global research reach

Where BAT Lab research is cited.

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People

A collaborative place to learn, build, and contribute.

BAT Lab brings together perspectives from human factors, psychology, design, engineering, and computer science.

Perspective

Learn across disciplines

Questions are shaped through multiple ways of understanding people, technology, and context.

Practice

Build through shared work

Members contribute to a common research agenda while developing their own skills and perspective.

Growth

Grow into new roles

Research offers room to ask questions, lead studies, communicate findings, and support one another.

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Research network

Built through collaboration.

Public agencies, universities, foundations, and industry partners help turn research into impact.

Work with BAT Lab

Bring a human-centered question. We will help make it researchable.

Human factors and UX studies, emerging-technology education, research visits, and applied collaboration.

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