[CSEE Talk] Talk: Today at 1pm: Rob St. Amant on Embodied Interaction

[Tim Oates]

              Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
                University of Maryland, Baltimore County


           Embodied Interaction: Systems, Experiments, Models

                             Rob St. Amant
                    North Carolina State University

                1:00pm Friday, 10 October 2015, ITE 325b

Over the past several years, engineering models for human-computer
interaction--models that predict and explain performance in
quantitative terms--have received increasing attention. In this talk,
I'll give an overview of experimentation and modeling work in my lab,
in the areas of mobile interaction, augmented reality, and
accessibility. Our research attempts to provide insight into emerging
areas of HCI, where interaction goes beyond conventional desktop user
interfaces to encompass the influences of physical body movement and
cognitive strategies on performance.


Robert St. Amant is an associate professor in the Computer Science
Department at North Carolina State University; his degrees are from
Johns Hopkins and the University of Massachusetts. He is on the
editorial board of the Oxford Series on Cognitive Models and
Architectures, and he is a former member of the steering committee for
the ACM Intelligent User Interfaces conference. His current research
is on human-computer interaction and cognitive modeling; past topics
have included intelligent user interfaces, exploratory data analysis,
and animal tool use. In 2012 his popular science book, Computing for
Ordinary Mortals, was published by Oxford University Press.

Host: Tim Oates, oates at umbc.edu