Movement in Human-Computer Interaction<\/p>\n
People interact with the world by moving around, pointing to address, touching to feel, and grasping to manipulate. These are also the ways users interact with computers. We point with a mouse to select, move an avatar\u2019s hand to feel what we can do with a virtual body, press and swipe a touchscreen to manipulate mobile phone\u2019s apps, or teleport to move between rooms in virtual reality.<\/p>\n
Computers do not provide similar sensory cues for interaction as physical surroundings, in which our bodies and brain have evolved for hundreds of millennia to interact and upon which we have built our lifetime experience of moving. This provides fundamental challenges for designing how to give feedback so that interaction with the computer is effective, comfortable, and learnable. My research agenda is to improve how people move in human\u2013computer interaction.<\/p>\n
In this talk, I will introduce my research agenda and present my work on it during the past four years as a tenure-track assistant professor. I will also present my plans on advancing this agenda in the future, both in research and teaching at DIKU.<\/p>\n