Hi all,

Welcome back to the new semester and the new year! Happy new year to you all! We will have our first weekly HCI group meeting this semester tomorrow Tuesday at 12:30 pm (Jan 19) in the DGP lab (BA 5166). As usual, lunch will be provided. This time Seongkook Heo is going to give a presentation about his work on enhancing touch input by using additional input modalities. Seongkook is currently an intern at Autodesk and a PhD candidate at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology). A brief abstract is shown as the following: Our natural touch is rich and nuanced with full of physical properties such as force and posture implying our intentions. Touch interfaces, however, ignore this rich information and only consider whether our finger is in contact within a screen area and is the location of that contact. In this talk, I will present different approaches my colleagues and I made to enhance impoverished touch interaction, for instance by using additional modalities like force or hover, or by exploiting underutilized touch gestures. Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow. Best,

Mingming