Vincent Levesque, Karon MacLean, Louise Oram Win 2011 CHI Best Paper Award

Vincent Levesque, Karon MacLean and Louise Oram designed and creatively evaluated new interaction techniques in order to reveal the new ways that the novel variable-friction TPad hardware (designed by Colgate's lab at Northwestern University) could have an impact on touch interactions of the future.

Paper Title: Levesque, V., Oram, L., MacLean, K. E., Cockburn, A., Marchuk, N., Johnson, D., Colgate, J. E., and Peshkin, M., “Enhancing Physicality in Touch Interaction with Programmable Friction,” CHI  2011.