Event overview
A talk by Robert J.K. Jacob, Department of Computer Science, Tufts University, Medford, Mass., USA
Wednesday 12 November, 3PM, Ben Pimlott Building Lecture Theatre
ABSTRACT
I will begin with the notion of Reality-Based Interaction (RBI) as a
unifying concept that ties together a large subset of the emerging
generation of new, non-WIMP user interfaces. It attempts to connect
current paths of research in HCI and to provide a framework that can
be used to understand, compare, and relate these new developments.
Viewing them through the lens of RBI can provide insights for
designers and allow us to find gaps or opportunities for future
development. I will briefly discuss some past work in my research
group on a variety of next generation interfaces such as tangible
interfaces and eye movement-based interaction techniques. Then I will
discuss our current work on brain-computer interfaces and the more
general area of implicit interaction.
BIO
Robert Jacob is a Professor of Computer Science at Tufts University,
where his research interests are new interaction modes and techniques
and user interface software; his current work focuses on implicit
brain-computer interfaces. He is currently a visiting professor at the
University College London Interaction Centre; he has also been
a visiting professor at the Universite Paris-Sud and the MIT Media
Laboratory. Before coming to Tufts, he was in the Human-Computer
Interaction Lab at the Naval Research Laboratory. He received his
Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, and he is a member of the
editorial boards of Human-Computer Interaction and the International
Journal of Human-Computer Studies and a founding member for ACM
Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. He is Vice-President of
ACM SIGCHI, and he has served as Papers Co-Chair of the CHI and UIST
conferences, and Co-Chair of UIST and TEI. He was elected to the ACM
CHI Academy in 2007, an honorary group of the principal leaders of the
field of HCI, whose efforts have shaped the discipline and industry,
and have led research and innovation in human-computer interaction.
Dates & times
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12 Nov 2014 | 3:00pm - 5:00pm |
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