Date: Tuesday 17th
February, 2009 at 4 pm
Speaker: Prof. Ravin Balakrishnan
Department of Computer Science,
University of Toronto.
Venue: NIMHANS Convention Center,
Auditorium No. 2, Hosur Road, Bangalore.
Title:
Facile interaction with displays all over the place.
Abstract:
As computing increasingly veers away from the desktop
to more mobile and "everywhere" usage scenarios,
the user interface must evolve to better support such
activities.
This talk provides a broad overview of some of the
more promising research being undertaken in the area
of next-generation user interfaces for future computing
environments, illustrated with examples from various
research works.
It will include interaction using handheld projectors,
sketch and gesture based interfaces, interfaces for
very large scale but expensive displays, interfaces
for very cheap "displays" all over the place,
and supporting infrastructure.
Speaker's Bio:
Printable version
Ravin
Balakrishnan is an Associate Professor of Computer
Science and Canada Research Chair in Human-Centred Interfaces
at the Department of Computer Science, University of
Toronto, where he co-directs the Dynamic Graphics Project
(DGP) laboratory and serves as the Department's Associate
Chair for Research and Industrial Relations. He received
his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of
Toronto in 2001, working with Bill Buxton, while also
being a researcher at Alias|wavefront (now part of Autodesk).
He is the recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship,
Ontario Premier's Research Excellence Award, Bell University
Laboratories Associate Chair in HCI at the University
of Toronto, and many awards and honours at various CHI
and UIST conferences. 
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