Interaction 13 Student Design Challenge Prize

Yongsoon Choi (Ph.D candidate, Supervisor: Adrian David Cheok) is one
of the winners of Interaction 13 Student Design Challenge. He will be
awarded a prize by Interaction and Experience Research (IXR) at Intel
Labs and the IxDA.

About Interaction 13
Each year, the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) holds a
conference that draws thousands of interaction designers from around
the globe. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the IxDA and its
6th annual conference- Interaction13. The world’s largest Interaction
Design conference touches down in Toronto from January 27th-31st in
this year.

PlayfulTechnology
This year, Interaction and Experience Research (IXR) at Intel Labs and
the IxDA wanted applicants to explore the experience implications of
“playful technology.”   Considering the paradigm shifts in what
technology means and how we interact with it and building on the work
that Intel Labs has been doing around the changing relationships we
have with technology.

Interaction 13 Student Design Challenge
http://interaction13.ixda.org/studentdesign/#ENTER

Winners announcement:
http://ixd13designchallenge.posterous.com/our-winners

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Taste and Smell Internet : A Multisensory (Media) Communication Breakthrough | Future Young Leaders

Taste and Smell Internet : A Multisensory (Media) Communication Breakthrough | Future Young Leaders:

Article in Future Young Leaders.

Extract: With the continuous advancements in computing and media, technology has widened to include multi-sensory experiences in remote interactions. Using electrical, thermal, and magnetic stimulation technologies we are currently experimenting on reproducing smell and taste sensations digitally. As a fundamental aim of this research, we will develop novel user interfaces that empower people’s life with digitized taste and smell communication capabilities. This research will generate important avenues for further research areas using smell and taste based interactions and new media. As the ultimate goal of this project we will develop devices which could actuate taste and smell sensations digitally through the Internet.

 We will need to develop new protocols to codify these sensations as well as how to transmit them over the internet. New interfaces for how to send and receive these kinds of sensations will have to be designed. We hope that this will open the doors to new paradigms in human-computer interface design and new fields of research in academia.

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