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A Seminar on Embodied Interaction

May 1st, 12 / 0 Comments

Prof. Ian Oakley will be giving a talk about “Embodied Interaction”

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Date : 3th (THU) May 2012, 1:30pm-3:30pm

Place: Department of Mechanical Engineering

C1 Seminar Rm(#1121)

Speaker : Dr. Ian Oakley (Assistant Professor, University of Madeira)

Abstract: Embodied cognition, an emerging perspective on the human mind, argues that thought is not an abstract process confined to the brain, but rather a leaky one that spreads out to incorporate the body and environment in order to optimally solve problems. Through a series of illustrative examples, this talk will highlight how the theories of embodied cognition can influence the design of a broad range of interactive systems. Ultimately, it argues that visions of the mind fundamentally shape the design of interactive systems and promotes the embodied viewpoint as the best candidate to support the design of the next generation of richly expressive physical and sensory interfaces.

Bio: Ian Oakley is a founding member of the Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, an assistant professor at the University of Madeira and an adjunct assistant professor at the HCI Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a BSc (Joint Honours First Class) in Computing Science and Psychology and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Glasgow, UK. His work experience includes 3 years of post-doctoral experience with MIT MediaLab Europe in Dublin, Ireland and 2 years experience at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology and the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute in South Korea. His research focuses on the design, development and evaluation of multi-modal interfaces and he has published on this topic in both leading conferences (such as ACM CHI) and journals (such as the IJHCS). Finally, he is, although he no longer sounds like it, Scots.

Host:  Prof. Dong-Soo Kwon(Tel. 3042, kwonds@kaist.ac.kr)