Employment

Amazing, how fast the academic buerocracy can shoot: I’m going to be employed as “half” a research assistant at the VR Group of Uni-Weimar’s Media Faculty by March 1, mere days after official application.

I’m looking forward to following my research interests on touchability and working with a great team. It’s weird but good to be back in little Weimar.

Introduction

Daniel Turing conducts empiric research in post-intuitive interfaces and other novel techniques for human-computer interaction. He strongly believes that trying too hard to be easy is what got us into the desktop metaphor mess in the first place.

This blog is to document my endeavours into HCI and related technologies. I am currently concerned with three primary projects:

• xinf is not flash: a cross-runtime, cross-platform graphical toolkit for the haXe language, and the base for most if not all of my programming.
• Construction of a touch-sensitive display surface for a table-like device. The first prototype is working (more or less) and I am currently preparing a second stage of research over the 2007/08 winter.
• Preparatory thinking about my (eventual) PhD thesis. Starting from the (new) properties of the multitouch table, I want to rethink current paradigms in HCI and GUI.

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