Welcome to the Human Media Lab Blog
The Human Media Lab is one of Canada's premier media laboratories. Its mandate is to develop disruptive technologies and new ways of working with computers that are viable 10 to 20 years from now. We are currently working on the design of Organic User Interfaces (Oui!), an exciting new paradigm that allows computers to have any shape or form.
Special Issue of Communications of the ACM on Organic UI
The special issue of Communications of the ACM on Organic User Interface, guest edited by Roel Vertegaal and Ivan Poupyrev is available at www.organicui.org
Interactive board games will come to life
MSNC.com 02-02-2010 Futuristic prototype drew inspiration from board game ‘Settlers of Catan’
Get ready to give the gaming console or computer a break, because the future of board games may transform static 2-D cardboard into interactive tile-based displays that mimic the action of video games. more...
Displax Flexible Touch Skin
Displax introduces a flexible capacitive multitouch film. If this is real, every OUI will have one.
Electronic Board Games: Tangible graphics on hexagonal bezel-less screens
Lab members are busy these days playing e-cardboard strategy games, like this electronic version of the popular game Settler's of Catan. Created by Mike Rooke, the game simulates a future in which OLED or FOLED displays cover board game tiles without bezels. This allows not just for interactive computer game graphics on compound cardboard screens, but also for the use of tangible interaction techniques to affect the state of gameplay.
