HCI research

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Emerging Interfaces

GraspPressure Lets You Click Through a UI While Both Hands Are Full

A new HCI study, GraspPressure, tests squeeze-based selection as an input modality for moments when a motion- or microgesture-based interface can't work because your hands are already holding something.

Oct 30, 7:35 AM · 1 min read

XR / Spatial Computing

Headset On, Room Still Shared: Designing Mixed Reality for the Person Standing Next to You

Oct 29, 6:20 AM · 2 min read

Creative Coding

Reading a Poem's Emotion, Then Handing It to a Strange Attractor

Oct 29, 5:05 AM · 2 min read

AI & Creative Tools

A Map Instead of a Prompt: Steering Generative Models by Walking Through Latent Space

Oct 29, 4:50 AM · 2 min read

Emerging Interfaces

Your Grip Has a Shape. This Glove Finally Lets You See It.

Oct 28, 8:55 AM · 3 min read

XR / Spatial Computing

The Reality-Virtuality Continuum Was Always a Line. This Paper Makes It a Plane.

Oct 28, 8:50 AM · 3 min read

Research & Innovation

When You and AI Co-Edit a Photo, Who Gets Credit? A Heat Map, Apparently.

Oct 28, 8:38 AM · 2 min read

Emerging Interfaces

A Pneumatic Suit for Hugging Someone Who Isn't There

Oct 7, 9:10 AM · 4 min read

Creative Coding

Game Designers Call It Juice. A Study Just Tested Whether Data Visualisation Needs It

Oct 7, 9:00 AM · 3 min read

Emerging Interfaces

Eight Artists Doodled With an AI for a Week and Described It Encroaching

Oct 6, 1:30 PM · 4 min read

Emerging Interfaces

Seventy-Six Children Designed Their Own AI Toys, and Almost All of Them Made Something Kind

Oct 5, 11:10 PM · 4 min read

Research & Innovation

Users Said Half the AI's Reasoning Steps Were Things They Never Asked For

Oct 5, 11:00 PM · 4 min read

XR / Spatial Computing

Put the AI's Explanation in the Room Instead of on a Second Screen

Oct 5, 9:10 AM · 4 min read

Research & Innovation

Thirty-Six Printable Cards for Deciding How to Evaluate an Explanation

Oct 3, 9:32 AM · 4 min read

Emerging Interfaces

Designers Talk to Themselves While They Draw, and AI Tools Throw That Away

Oct 3, 9:26 AM · 5 min read

Emerging Interfaces

A System That Claps at You When You Lose the Beat — and the Honest Result That Followed

Oct 3, 8:30 AM · 5 min read

Emerging Interfaces

Make People Work Before You Let Them Use the AI, and They Get Better Results

Oct 2, 10:50 AM · 5 min read

Research & Innovation

A Reference-Listening Tool That Makes You Choose What to Compare

Oct 2, 10:10 AM · 4 min read

XR / Spatial Computing

AR Captions That Tell You Who Said It, From People Introducing Themselves

Sep 30, 8:45 AM · 4 min read

XR / Spatial Computing

Adding Smell to VR Made People Navigate Worse Before It Made Them Better

Sep 29, 8:05 AM · 4 min read

XR / Spatial Computing

Should the Amount of Virtuality Change While You Work? A Study Says Test It

Sep 28, 11:50 AM · 3 min read

XR / Spatial Computing

Point, Select, Drag an Arrow: an XR Pen Beats Controllers and Gestures for Telling a Robot Where to Go

Sep 28, 9:55 AM · 3 min read

Emerging Interfaces

Teaching a Speech Model to Say 'Uh-Huh' at the Right Moment

Sep 27, 8:40 AM · 3 min read

Emerging Interfaces

Voice Interfaces Are Tested in Quiet Rooms and Deployed in Loud Ones

Sep 26, 10:15 AM · 4 min read

Emerging Interfaces

What Your Headset Screenshots Is Not What You Can See, and That Gap Is a Security Hole

Sep 25, 3:00 PM · 4 min read

Emerging Interfaces

CoBranchMR Brings Git's Branch-and-Merge to Collaborative Design in Mixed Reality

Sep 24, 3:00 PM · 3 min read

Emerging Interfaces

People Move Differently in Passthrough, and a 110-Person Study Finally Measured How Much

Sep 23, 3:00 PM · 3 min read