Hello all, We will have our bi-weekly HCI group meeting at 12.30pm on Tuesday Oct 22nd in the DGP seminar room. Martin Feick will be giving a talk. Food will be served.

* Bio:

Martin Feick is a PhD-student at the German Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarland, Germany. He received a Bachelor and Master of Sciences in software engineering/applied computer science from the Saarland University of Applied Sciences. For his Bachelor's thesis, he spent 6 months in the Interactions Lab at the University of Calgary (Canada) researching Human-Computer Interaction. For his Master's thesis, he conducted research at UCLIC at the University College London (United Kingdom). During his Master's studies, he also worked part-time as an HCI researcher at the Saarland University/Max-Planck Institute for Informatics. His research interests lie in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. Especially, in how we can design and develop novel systems to support object-centered interaction.

* Title:

How Tangible Objects Facilitate Interaction

* Abstract:

In recent years we have seen great improvements in Virtual, Augmented and Mixed reality systems. They have the potential to fundamentally change how we interact with one another; however, displayed information and content largely remain virtual. In this talk, I will outline two alternative approaches to enable tangible interaction with these virtual objects, and demonstrate how they facilitate interaction. In particular, I will talk about a robotic system, ReMa which can be controlled through physical proxy objects, as well as the TanGi toolkit that allows the rapid creation of proxy objects for virtual reality.