CHI day 1

The first day of CHI started with a great opening plenary by Lou Yongqi (check keynotes here and yes, check out WHO is the closing plenary!), which came forward and highlighted the importance of Sustainability in research! Followed by an amazing program of novel technology (think Virtual Reality!), human augmentation (check this totally new way of embodying another person by Prof. Rekimoto), user studies (“Understanding and evaluating User Performance”), and understanding of elder users (“Designing for 55+”) and communities (a great session on Activism in Wikipedia, one on Privacy and one on the “Maker Community”)!

Taken from http://blog.johnrooksby.org/post/116870237912/lou-yongqi-keynote-at-chi2015 Copyright remains with original page.

Also this was the day of the video-showcase, which is a non-academic venue in which authors can submit their videos for further appreciation. It is an amazing opportunity to great a glimpse of CHI by sitting in the theater and watching great research in motion. This year’s winner was the Transform project by the MIT Media Lab (see it here), from which one of the authors is our dear editor Sean Follmer, so congrats to him and his team!

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About Pedro Lopes

Pedro is a PhD student of Prof. Patrick Baudisch’s Human Computer Interaction lab in Hasso Plattner Institut, Berlin. Pedro creates wearable interfaces that read & write directly to the user’s body through our muscles [proprioceptive interaction].  Pedro augments humans & their realities by using electrical muscle stimulation to actuate human muscles as interfaces to new virtual worlds. His works have been published at ACM CHI and UIST. A believer on the unification of art and research, often gives talks about it [Campus Party’13, A MAZE’14, NODE’15]. Makes and writes music using turntables [in eitr]. Enjoys writing about music [in jazz.pt magazine] and tech [as digital content editor at ACM XRDS].

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