A revolutionary piece of technology, created by researchers at the University of St Andrews, can detect what an object is by placing it on a small radar sensor. The device, called RadarCat (... Read more
Imagine your computer screen could change shape. Imagine if that screen could spring to life at the touch of a fingertip, translating numbers and trends into shapes and gradients you can rea... Read more
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) this week launched a study that could lead to breakthroughs in creating the next-generation of avatars, robots and other human surrogates for military trai... Read more
Multi-sensory technology that creates soap bubbles, which can have images projected onto them or when the bubbles are burst release a scent The research paper, to be presented at one of the... Read more
The system that’s been developed can track users’ actions over time to understand and predict their habits The Smart Composite Human-Computer Interfaces (Smarcos) project is deve... Read more
A tabletop display with personal screens made from a curtain of mist that allow users to move images around and push through the fog-screens and onto the display, will be unveiled at an inte... Read more
And you thought multitouch gestures were annoying – how about mashing your whole hand on your screen to close an app or rapping on it with your knuckle to summon Siri (or Iris?). A new techn... Read more
Researchers at the University of Southampton have developed a new way to generate music and control computers. “Grab a block and add a base beat, turn a block to speed up the high hat... Read more
Human-computer interaction is undergoing a revolution, entering a multimodal era that goes beyond, way beyond, the WIMP (Windows-Icons-Menus-Pointers) paradigm. Now European researchers have... Read more
Always thought your skin was more than just a thing to stop your insides falling out? Well, you were right. Chris Harrison has developed Skinput, a way in which your skin can become a touch... Read more