Understanding & Designing Phygital User Experiences
University College London, London
COM1 Level 3
MR1, COM1-03-19
Abstract:
With increasingly digitalised lives with screens, people start to miss the physical - the clay and analogue games in old childhood, the uninterrupted chat face-to-face, etc. Ubiquitous technologies are invented for a future of "disappearing computers", which enable new user experiences by blending the physical and digital worlds in various ways. While the physical can be visible, tangible, and embodied, the digital can be efficient, dynamic and versatile. How can we design future interfaces that better combine advantages from both? In this talk, I will show my past work with a number of technologies including wall-sized displays, AR, and physical computing, and discuss them from this perspective. It covers a few lab-based research that provides some fundamental understanding and novel design of new digital form factors, as well as in-the-wild research that aims for a real-world impact.
Biodata:
Dr Can Liu is a research fellow in Human-computer Interaction, currently visiting the NUS-HCI lab before starting her assistant professorship in the City University of Hong Kong. She obtained her Ph.D. in HCI at the Universite Paris-Sud in Paris and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at University College London. Prior to these, she received an MSc degree in Media Informatics at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany. Her work has been published at ACM CHI conferences and received the Best Paper and Honourable Mention awards.