One of the papers from the Human Media Lab accepted to the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology Symposium (UIST 2016) in Japan, describes HoloFlex, a light-field-enables flexible smartphone. HoloFlex sends different light rays to multiple angles, allowing the device to display stereoscopic and motion-parallax-enabled 3D imagery. Additionally, bend sensors offer new ways […]
Close to finish my postdoctoral fellowship at the Human Media Lab, two of our papers were accepted at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology Symposium (UIST 2016) in Japan. One of them is a demo called WhammyPhone, a prototype illustrating the possible applications of flexible smartphone technology for software synthesizer control.
Last week I had the pleasure to visit the ICESI and Autónoma universities in my hometown, Cali (Colombia).
Do humans place too much trust in robots? Harvard researcher Serena Booth ran a study to answer this question. Apparently some people consider small, non-human-shaped robots very trustworthy, specially if they deliver cookies. Please read the link for more details. (Cartoon commentary is mine.)
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.
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.
(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, […]
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 […]
Last Tuesday September 11th I presented some of my research work at the Universidad San Buenaventura in Cali, Colombia. I thank my host, Sergio Bromberg, director of the GTA arts and technology group, Rocío Segovia Jiménez, director of the LIDIS Lab, and my friends Mónica Arroyave and Diego Duque for the interesting discussions around HCI […]