Human Sciences & Technology Advanced Research Institute"H-STAR, the Human-Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute, is administered in the Stanford Graduate School of Education and is a Stanford interdisciplinary research center focusing on people and information technology — how people use technology, how to better design technology to make it more usable (and more competitive in the marketplace), how technology affects people’s lives, and the innovative use of technologies in research, education, art, business, commerce, entertainment, communication, national security, and other walks of life."