Welcome to the Human Media Lab Blog
The Human Media Lab is one of Canada's premier media laboratories. Its mandate is to develop disruptive technologies and new ways of working with computers that are viable 10 to 20 years from now. We are currently working on the design of Organic User Interfaces (Oui!), an exciting new paradigm that allows computers to have any shape or form.
Special Issue of Communications of the ACM on Organic UI
The special issue of Communications of the ACM on Organic User Interface, guest edited by Roel Vertegaal and Ivan Poupyrev is available at www.organicui.org
Researchers receive over $3.9 million from Ontario Research Fund
Two Queen’s researchers have received over $3.9 million from the Ontario Research Fund - Research Excellence program.
“This provincial funding will facilitate the work of Stephen Scott, who is uncovering the secrets of the brain, and boost Roel Vertegaal’s research on the next generation of computers and the future of human-computer interaction,” said Kerry Rowe, Queen’s Vice-Principal, Research. “The program is a great support to research and innovation at Queen’s.”
Human Media Lab @ the Olympics
HML Alumnus Connor Dickie explaining Interaxon's Brain-controlled CN Tower, Niagara Falls and House of Commons.
Cooking & molding bioplastics at home
Shapeways has recipes and information about making bioplastics.
