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SPIN
is an interdisciplinary group of students and faculty who design
and build innovative user interfaces, and study human perception
as it relates to them. We are particularly oriented towards physical
and multimodal interfaces, and concentrate on embedded environments
which leave the desktop behind. These are interfaces which will
someday be found in clothing and on mobile devices, or in the furniture
and walls of your home; for expressive applications which current
interfaces fail, like computer music handlers and media control;
and sensorially overloaded applications, like car interiors.
We
are concerned with what these interfaces will do, how they will
work, the way they'll feel, sound and look; and how users will perceive
them. This is multidisciplinary work: we come from many backgrounds,
and tackle different aspects of the problems either individually
or as teams. Student theses range in area from perceptual psychology
to ultra-fast network protocols to mechatronic design, with traditional
HCI methods in the middle.
We
are located in UBC's Computer
Science Department, with facilities
in both the Laboratory
for Computational Intelligence and the Imager
Graphics and HCI Lab. At the center of UBC's HCI
community, we have many friends and collaborators in Psychology,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Mechanical Engineeringand
Forest Sciences - in fact,
some of our students are from those departments. We also collaborate
with several companies who supply us with some interesting
real-world problems.
We're
always looking for new members. If you'd like more information or
a visit, please contact any of us.
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