# What Is the Cognitive Engineering Lab? by Brown University ## Metadata - Author: [[Brown University]] - Full Title: What Is the Cognitive Engineering Lab? - Category: #articles - URL: https://cel.cs.brown.edu/blog/cognitive-engineering/ ## Highlights added July 14, 2024 at 5:56 PM The goal of the Cognitive Engineering Lab is to research how system designers can use principles of cognition to improve their software. We primarily do this by example — we build systems that actually help people in practice with difficult cognitive tasks, and we write papers that articulate the cognitive elements of the system design process. (The system itself is a [theory nexus](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/67449.67452), too!) ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j2sg8xzepc7dq7c7wtvwnmnt))