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ABOUT US

We are NUS HCI Lab:Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at National University of Singapore - School of Computing. We regard creativity and cooperative social interaction as two key elements contributing to a strong and happy society. Our mission is to work on interfaces and interaction techniques to facilitate creative expressions as well as encourage cooperative social interactions,a.k.a. creative social interaction.

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Maryam joins the lab

23 February,2012
Maryam Azh is from the NUS Graduate School of Integrative Sciences and Engineering. She has joined the lab as a Ph.D. student to do her thesis under Dr. Zhao Shengdong. Previously,Maryam obtained her Bachelors in Information Technology from York University. Her interests mainly lies in the field of user interface design. She is particularly interested in tactile user interfaces. She helps to organize the visits for guests.

Maryam is always cheerful,and brings smiles to every lab member :)

NUS HCI Contributes to CHI 2012!

14 Feb,2012Once again,NUS HCI has made a strong showing in the annual ACM SIGCHI conference. The members of HCI Lab have authored/co-authored 2 papers and 2 notes.

 

Paper -  Vignette:Interactive Texture Design and Manipulation with Freeform Gestures for Pen-and-Ink Illustration (Rubaiat Habib,Takeo Igarashi,  Shengdong Zhao, Richard Davis). Project website

Paper -  Enabling Concurrent Dual Views on Common LCD Screens (Seokhwan Kim,Xiang Cao,Haimo Zhang,Desney Tan)

Note -  Exploring User Motivations for Eyes-free Interaction on Mobile Devices (Yi Bo,Cao Xiang,Morten Fjeld,Shengdong Zhao)

Note –Beyond Stereo:An Exploration of Unconventional Binocular Presentation for Novel Visual Experience (Haimo Zhang,  Xiang Cao,  Shengdong Zhao)

Congratulations to all the authors and contributors!

CHI 2012

Welcome Melissa!

17 January,2012

Melissa has joined the Silver Computing Team as a Research Assistant!

She has recently graduated from NUS with a Bachelor of Computing (Communication and Media)
with Honors. She did her undergraduate Honors Year Project with Dr. Zhao,studying about users
and their help seeking behavior. We are delighted to have her join the lab.

Welcome to the family!

Penny’s Visit!

17 January,2012

Penny,a visiting researcher from Malaysia,came for a visit to our lab! She gave a presentation about her past and current research projects. It was very exciting to hear about the types of project she did. We wish her all the best with her current projects. We too hope that she will join us for a longer stay next time!