My research andMy favourite student project
Alistair Edwards
http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~alistair
My research
Novel forms of human-computer interaction
To this
From this…
Forms of interaction
Speech
Non-speech sounds
Tactile
Haptic
Often inspired by users with particular needs
blind
older…
Research projects
CreST
The Creative Speech Network
Interactive tactile maps
Nickey Nazatul
Mobile technology for older people
Sonification
Research proposals
Smalltalk
a hybrid communicator for older people
An ultra-context-aware communication aid
MAT
A Musical Aptitude Test
My favourite student project
Psychophysics of touch and non- verbal characterisation of physical objects
Theodoros Georgiou, 2012
Chosen because
haptics is exciting
Theo is a recent HCIT graduate and staying on
some useful results
- a publication?
PhanTom Omni
Experiments
1. Do people use fruit and vegetable descriptions of simulated objects?
No
2. Can people replicate texture of real objects on the Omni?
No …well, sort-of
Recognising real objects
Experimental setup
Simulation
stiffness static friction dynamic
friction
Cluster analysis