Throughout my career I have tried to make computers easier to use-and therefore more useful- for ordinary people. Along the way, I've invented a few things that have proven to be helpful. At the operating system level, I tried to make the interface to ...

The home of the future will be an interface (in itself) much like current, omni-present screen-based, interfaces. Designing the interior of your home will be as gratifying and immediate as a click is today, with modular digital furniture becoming the ...

"Vera" is an adaptation of a short story by New Zealand's early XXth-century feminist writer, Katherine Mansfield. It is a unique artificial reality experience that allows viewers to cross the so-called fourth wall between the film reality and the ...

We demonstrate Head-Coupled Kinematic Template Matching (HC-KTM) - a new technique to predict a ray pointer's landing position (end-position and angle) for selection movements in virtual reality (VR) environments. The technique adapts and extends a prior ...

ARLooper is an augmented reality mobile interface that enables the user to record sound, visualize it as a 3D waveform, play and control the waveform in an AR space. By employing the shared AR features of iOS ARKit, it also supports a collaborative ...

New VR experiences allow users to walk extensively in the virtual space. Bigger tracking spaces, treadmills and redirected walking solutions are now available. Yet, certain connections to the user's movement are still not made. Here, we specifically see ...

Communicating emotional experiences is something core to being human, yet also notoriously difficult. With this considered, we acknowledge previous work in bio-responsive and neurofeedback systems which facilitate the externalization of subjective ...

Kilo Hoku is a virtual reality simulation of sailing on the Hokule'a, a Polynesian double-hulled sailing canoe built in Hawai'i in 1974, which completed its worldwide voyage in 2017. By developing the simulation, we aimed to observe how a virtual reality ...

Most widespread haptic feedback devices for augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) fall into one of two categories: simple hand-held controllers with a single vibration actuator, or complex glove systems with several embedded actuators. In this work, we ...

Elastic Legs Illusion (ELI) provides the striking illusory experience of having a longer legs where the virtual legs are visually stretched from the first-person perspective. This illusion works without any experimenter's assist; a single subject wearing ...

While standard VR controllers lack means to convey realistic, kinesthetic impressions of size, resistance or inertia, this demonstration presents Drag:on, an ungrounded shape-changing interaction device that provides dynamic passive haptic feedback based ...

We propose ElastOscillation, mounted on a virtual reality(VR) controller to provide 3D multilevel force feedback for damped oscillation to enhance VR experiences. ElastOscillation consists of a proxy, six elastic bands and DC motors. It leverages the ...

We present Augmented Displays, a new class of display systems combining high-resolution interactive surfaces with head-coupled Augmented Reality. This extends the screen estate beyond the display and enables placing AR content directly at the display's ...

We present an interactive visualization based on parallel coordinates that enables comparison, generation, and modification of multiple parametric design alternatives. Such capabilities are lacking in existing tools. Initial evaluation suggests that our ...

This paper reports that the time-domain accuracy of bare-hand interactions in HMD-based Augmented Reality can be improved by using finger contact: touching a finger with another or tapping one's own hand. The activation of input can be precisely defined ...

Storytelling is an important means for children to build literacy while sharing beliefs, values, and cultural norms. Our work investigates how augmented reality (AR) can fit into creative storytelling practices. We introduce Living Paper, a system for ...

Adults on the autism spectrum commonly experience impairments in attention management that hinder many other cognitive functions necessary to appreciate relationships between sensory stimuli. As autistic individuals generally identify as visual learners, ...

Interest towards building and operating climate services is constantly growing globally, especially regarding utilization of mobile technologies in those services in the Global South, in order to reach rural farmers effectively. However, multiple issues ...

The present study examines whether computer-generated speech is perceived to have an age, and if so, whether we can manipulate the perceived age of the voice. We conducted an experimental study with 51 participants where each computer-generated voice had ...

Some have argued that human skills and abilities are essential to effective health coaching and cannot be replicated by conversational agents. We sought to understand the differences in interaction patterns between two group of participants. In one group,...