Strategy Research
to
Drive Innovation
We answer big questions with high quality methods.
Our Services
Research
Finding your next research question requires strategic analysis.
Building innovative products starts with listening to your users.
We provide qualitative and quantitative user research and strategy research services.
Marketing & Thought Leadership
Do you need subject matter experts who can build social media campaigns, blog, write opinion articles, or develop a marketing strategy? We can help.
Academic Publication
Do you want your company's work recognized by the academic community? We have extensive experience translating corporate work into academic publication.
Speaking
Need an inspiring keynote addressing the intersection between technology and society, the irrationality of end-user security behavior, or how misinformation is effecting democracy? We have great speakers.
Our Mission
We are a woman-owned business with a dual mission to deliver high quality services and to diversify the research field.
HCA is primarily staffed by underrepresented researchers.
Our Clients
Our team has helped corporations like Meta,
small and medium-sized businesses like ImageSoft,
think-tanks like the Partnership on AI,
and academic institutions like Columbia University
achieve their goals.
Work with us
We'd love to hear from you! Get in touch and let’s talk about what we can do for you.
About
Human Computing Associates is led by
Elissa M. Redmiles, Ph.D.
In addition to leading HCA, Dr. Redmiles is a faculty member at Georgetown University where she leads the Safety & Society Group. She has published more than 50 peer-reviewed academic articles with over 2000 citations focused on the intersection between technology and: safety, misinformation, fairness, public health, and ethics.
Dr. Redmiles previously held appointments at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Microsoft Research, the University of Zurich Institute for Communication Science and Media Research, and as a fellow at the University of Chicago / World Bank. Prior to her academic career, Dr. Redmiles was the WorldWide Marketing Manager for IBM's $3B/yr Enterprise Content Management division and the Staff Writer for the University of Maryland's Computer Science Department.
Dr. Redmiles' research has been recognized with numerous awards including fellowships and grants from Facebook, the US National Science Foundation, and the US Department of Defense. Her academic work has received 7 paper recognitions from premier computer science conferences such as ACM Computers Communications and Security (CCS), USENIX Security, ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO), and ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).
Dr. Redmiles regularly writes for the popular press and her work has featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Scientific American, Forbes, Rolling Stone, FastCompany, CNET, Business Insider, and other international venues. Dr. Redmiles is also regularly interviewed by multiple cybersecurity podcasts and publications including CyberWire and the DailySwig.
Our staff includes a team of Ph.D.-trained researchers with a diverse range of specialties.