| Title | : | Designing Bespoke Interactive Devices |
| Speaker | : | Bjoern Hartmann (UC Berkeley) |
| Details | : | Fri, 12 Oct, 2018 6:00 PM @ Aryabhatta Hall (CSB |
| Abstract: | : | My groups research in Human-Computer Interaction focuses on design, prototyping and implementation tools for the era of post-personal computing. As computation diffuses into an ever-larger array of everyday objects, we investigate how new algorithms, applications and design principles can support the creation of novel user interfaces.
Our work on these tools is motivated by our daily experience of teaching and building in the CITRIS Invention Lab - a space for 21st century product design and engineering education with courses at the intersection of Design, EECS, Mechanical Engineering, and New Media. I will give an overview of lab activities and projects, and how they inform our ongoing research agenda. I will ll then present research that enables designers and developers to rapidly prototype and later robustly implement post-desktop interfaces. Making headway in this area involves working in both hardware and software. For example, my group is developing authoring tools that leverage digital fabrication processes to construct functioning prototypes of physically embodied user interfaces in a matter of hours. Our work on input architectures supports developers that have to write robust gesture recognition code for devices that use such sensors. Speaker bio: Bjoern Hartmann is an Associate Professor in EECS at UC Berkeley. He is the faculty director of the new Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation. He previously co-founded the CITRIS Invention Lab and also co-directs the Berkeley Institute of Design and the CITRIS Connected Communities initiative. His research has received numerous Best Paper Awards at top Human-Computer Interaction conferences, a Sloan Fellowship, an Okawa Research Award and an NSF CAREER Award. He received Berkeleys Diane S. McEntyre Award for Excellence in Teaching. He completed his PhD in Computer Science at Stanford University in 2009 and received degrees in Digital Media Design, Communication, and Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002. |
