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ABSTRACT:
Mobile devices have become ubiquitous over the last decade, changing the way we interact with technology and with one another. My research focuses on the design, development, and evaluation of novel interaction techniques with mobile devices using a human-centered approach. In this presentation, I will in particular focus on two types of mobile devices: wearables and autonomous mobile devices. I will discuss the use of multiple modalities to interact with technology and in particular how haptics on wearables can support long-term tasks without interrupting the user’s attention. I will then discuss how autonomous devices such as drones re-invent our understanding of ubiquitous computing and present my current research on collocated natural human-drone interaction.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
Jessica R. Cauchard is a Senior Lecturer at IDC Herzliya, Israel in the departments of Computer Science and Communications. Prior to joining IDC Herzliya, she was working as a postodoctoral research fellow at Stanford's Computer Science Human-Computer Interaction laboratory and completed her PhD at the University of Bristol at the Interaction & Graphics research lab. At IDC Herzliya she leads the Ubiquitous Computing research lab. Her research focuses on wearable, mobile, and ubiquitous computing. She is interested in new interaction techniques and how users can be supported by technology.

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