Today Eric Longley from CTV News (Ottawa) visited the Human Media Lab to find out about ReFlex. I answered some questions for about the project, its development and its future.
ReFlex in CTV News, Ottawa
ReFlex: a flexible smartphone with haptic feedback
The Human Media Lab, where I currently work as a postdoctoral fellow, just released ReFlex, a flexible smartphone with active haptic feedback—likely the world’s first.
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The difference between music and noise
(This post is based on an answer I wrote to a question in Quora)
Understanding mobile search & app interactions
(Slideshare deck courtesy of Karen Church)
Last Wednesday April 22th, I presented the paper “An in-situ study of mobile search and app interactions”, during a session chaired by Matt Jones and titled “Understanding Everyday Use of Mobile Phones”. This took place in Seoul, South Korea, during the International Conference on Human Factors in Camputing Systems, CHI2015. I want to share the deck that Karen Church and I put together for the presentation.
I also want to share some of the implications of our work.
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CHI2015 highlights (updated)
This is some sort of log or diary of all the activities I attended during the Conference of Human Factors in Computing Systems–CHI2015 in Seoul, Korea. I also had the pleasure to present two papers, “An In-Situ Study of Mobile App & Mobile Search Interactions” (part of my PhD dissertation) and “To Call or to Recall? That’s the Research Question” (the result of my internship at Yahoo! in Summer 2014).
It was an incredible conference and it was a great opportunity to see old and new friends and colleagues.
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“An In-Situ Study on Mobile App & Mobile Search Interactions”, accepted at CHI2015
“An In-Situ Study on Mobile App & Mobile Search Interactions”, a paper written by Karen Church and myself and the result of my 2014 Summer internship at Yahoo!, was accepted for publication in the ACM conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2015). Karen tells the story better.
We will be presenting it at the conference in Seoul, Korea, this April.
Article in ACM Transactions of Computer-Human Interaction (ToCHI)
Our paper “To Call or to Recall? That’s the Research Question” (Carrascal, de Oliveira, Cherubini) published in the March 2015 edition of the ACM ToCHI journal. And we will be presenting it in the CHI2015 conference in Seoul, Korea.
Talk at the Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia
I had the pleasure to be invited to the event “Diseño Con-Ciencia”, one of several academic events that took place during the “Cátedra Europa” in the Universidad del Norte. The main focus of the event was research and design. My talked focused why and how Human-Computer Interaction research can serve to inform the process of designing mobile phone technologies. I presented some of my research work as well as some past projects developed by my colleagues at the Human Media Lab, where I al working now.
I also had the opportunity to meet several interesting people, both professors from the university and invited speakers, and to know the campus.
Universidad del Norte is one of the top-ranked universities in Colombia.
PhD: Done.
Here is the evidence. In case you are interested in my PhD thesis, titled “Aspects of personal information valuation in web browsing and mobile communication”, you can download it from here.
Talk at the Universidad ICESI, Cali, CO
I presented some of my research work at the Universidad ICESI, in Cali, Colombia, last Friday, September 12th. The talk spawned very interesting discussions with professors and students from different areas of the university surrounding topics on privacy, economics and HCI. I’d like to thank my hosts Pablo Monroy and Adela Parra. Pablo showed me how the ICESI university has grown and expanded both in physical size and professional scope. Additionally, I had the pleasure to talk with Juan Salamanca, director of the Leonardo research group, and we shared interesting thoughts on HCI and projects involving interaction and design.