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The Usability Research Lab was opened in the mid 1990’s to provide experimental space for Professors Korfhage and Lewis’ NSF sponsored research in visual information retrieval interfaces as well as to function as a conventional Usability (now User Experience) lab.  With an influx of new projects, the lab’s focus shifted to human-agent interaction, interactive simulation and VR, and since 2003, human-robot interaction. Recent projects involve Theory or Mind, human supervision of robotic swarms, trust in automation, and reinforcement learning models for human-machine teaming. The current lab directed by Michael Lewis will close in June 2026 when he retires.