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Patrick Baudisch (CSE Colloquium and Distinguished Lecture Series)

''My new PC is a mobile phone''

Patrick Baudisch
Chair of the Human Computer Interaction Lab
Hasso Plattner Institute

Friday, February 17th, 2012, 11:00 am
EBU3B, Room 1202

Abstract

Neither desktop computers nor the hundred-dollar laptop are the mass computation platform of the world—mobile phones are. 4 billion of them. So how come we are still using PCs? In my talk, I take a closer look at the research that emerges from the tension between the desire to perform complex tasks and the desire for mobility. Which “large screen” computer tasks will we ultimately be able to perform on small-screen devices; which tasks will resist this transition? I then look at what future generations of mobile devices might look like, devices ten times smaller than today’s devices, devices that will be worn, rather than carried. I present devices that appear transparent in order to allow operation via the device backside and a new breed of tiny touch devices that achieve extremely accurate touch input by taking the users’ fingerprints into account.

 

Short biography

Patrick Baudisch is a professor in Computer Science at Hasso Plattner Institute in Berlin/Potsdam and chair of the Human Computer Interaction Lab. His research focuses on the miniaturization of mobile devices and touch input. Previously, Patrick Baudisch worked as a research scientist in the Adaptive Systems and Interaction Research Group at Microsoft Research and at Xerox PARC and served as an Affiliate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Washington. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany.

 

 



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