It conducts both research and teaching activities related to interactive computing at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

[1] In July 2012, Annie Antón, formerly at North Carolina State University, replaced Bobick as school chair.

The faculty and students of the School conduct a variety of research in areas including cognitive science, computer vision, human-computer interaction, learning sciences, machine learning, natural language processing, and robotics.

A common theme across research is an emphasis on interactive computing, which is an increasingly recognized term for describing a class of research problems that sit at the intersection of computing and the human environment.

[6][7][8] The School of Interactive Computing's administrative offices, as well as those of most of its faculty and graduate students, are located in the Technology Square Research Building (TSRB) at Technology Square in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, just east of the Institute's main campus.