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