Pradipta Biswas: Extreme HCI 2
Mice, and now touchscreens, have become a daily part of our lives in the way we interact with computers. But what about people who lack the ability to use a mouse or touchscreen? Or situations where these would be impractical or outright dangerous?
My research addresses extreme human machine interaction ranging from investigating interaction issues for people with severe physical impairment to proposing new interaction techniques for combat aircraft pilots and automotive drivers, where the context itself imposes situational impairment. I have developed user model and investigated new modalities of interaction involving eye-gaze, head-movement and hand-gesture trackers. I have worked with Indian universities to improve quality of life of rural UK and Indian population as well as collaborated with a major defence company to exploit traditional 'accessibility features' for military combat aircrafts. I have invented new algorithms to simulate users’ interaction with an electronic screen and target prediction technology to facilitate human machine interaction.
This particular photo entry is a collage of our user survey, demonstration and exhibition. In the following paragraphs I have briefly described each photograph.
Picture 1: The top left photograph was taken at a rural old-age home at Mandi, India, where I conducted a survey on the exposure and limitation of modern interactive technologies of rural Indian population. Results from my survey was later published in a monograph published by Springer (www.springer.com/computer/hci/book/978-3-319-06165-8).
Picture 2:Technologies developed for elderly and disabled population often found important applications in special situations - the picture is showing me wearing a Eurofighter Typhoon (www.eurofighter.com/) helmet, which we are trying to improve by incorporating new modalities of interaction
Picture 3 to 8:We have demonstrated our technologies at many different conferences, exhibitions and user trial, where member of public and even children could use our system without any difficulty.
Picture 9:The picture was taken at IIT, Mandi as part of a project to explore use of eye gaze tracking to operate a dashboard while driving, so that drivers need not to take their hands off from steering wheel. Presently I am working with Jaguar Land Rover to further explore utility of eye gaze tracking interface in automotive environment.
Picture 10: The picture is showing my colleague using a eye gaze tracking glass while operating a flight simulator as part of a BAE Systems funded project.
Pradipta Biswas: Extreme HCI 2
Mice, and now touchscreens, have become a daily part of our lives in the way we interact with computers. But what about people who lack the ability to use a mouse or touchscreen? Or situations where these would be impractical or outright dangerous?
My research addresses extreme human machine interaction ranging from investigating interaction issues for people with severe physical impairment to proposing new interaction techniques for combat aircraft pilots and automotive drivers, where the context itself imposes situational impairment. I have developed user model and investigated new modalities of interaction involving eye-gaze, head-movement and hand-gesture trackers. I have worked with Indian universities to improve quality of life of rural UK and Indian population as well as collaborated with a major defence company to exploit traditional 'accessibility features' for military combat aircrafts. I have invented new algorithms to simulate users’ interaction with an electronic screen and target prediction technology to facilitate human machine interaction.
This particular photo entry is a collage of our user survey, demonstration and exhibition. In the following paragraphs I have briefly described each photograph.
Picture 1: The top left photograph was taken at a rural old-age home at Mandi, India, where I conducted a survey on the exposure and limitation of modern interactive technologies of rural Indian population. Results from my survey was later published in a monograph published by Springer (www.springer.com/computer/hci/book/978-3-319-06165-8).
Picture 2:Technologies developed for elderly and disabled population often found important applications in special situations - the picture is showing me wearing a Eurofighter Typhoon (www.eurofighter.com/) helmet, which we are trying to improve by incorporating new modalities of interaction
Picture 3 to 8:We have demonstrated our technologies at many different conferences, exhibitions and user trial, where member of public and even children could use our system without any difficulty.
Picture 9:The picture was taken at IIT, Mandi as part of a project to explore use of eye gaze tracking to operate a dashboard while driving, so that drivers need not to take their hands off from steering wheel. Presently I am working with Jaguar Land Rover to further explore utility of eye gaze tracking interface in automotive environment.
Picture 10: The picture is showing my colleague using a eye gaze tracking glass while operating a flight simulator as part of a BAE Systems funded project.