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These updates are republished press releases and communications from members of the Science|Business Network University of Birmingham: Locomotion Vault will help guide innovations in virtual reality Experts in virtual reality locomotion have developed a new resource that analyses all the different possibilities of locomotion currently available. Moving around in a virtual reality world can be very different to walking or employing a vehicle in the real world and new approaches and techniques are continually being developed to meet the challenges of different applications. Called Locomotion V...

Share A strong contingent of Lancaster University researchers have been demonstrating their work at one of the world’s most prestigious computing conferences. The annual ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems – which is the premier international conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) – brings together researchers and practitioners from across the world to showcase and discuss the latest interactive technology. This year’s conference, which was due to be held in Yokohama in Japan, was held virtually due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic between May 8th-13th....

Aaron Aupperlee Print The HCII's Joseph Chee Chang and Aniket Kittur are part of a team that investigated the effectiveness of tabs in web browsers. They'll present their findings next week at CHI2021. If you are reading this, chances are you have several other tabs open in your browser that you mean to get to eventually. Internet browser tabs are a major source of friction on the internet. People love them. People hate them. For some users, tabs bring order and efficiency to their web browsing. For others, they spiral out of control, shrinking at the top of the screen as their ...

Penn State researchers report that users respond differently when AIs either offer to help the user, or ask for help from the user. Developers may want...

May 12, 2021 In India today, dozens of phone numbers are available for people who are having a severe mental health emergency. Oftentimes, however, callers experience difficulty in getting connected with someone who will listen to them; sometimes the phone will just ring and ring. “People think that technology is the solution – that if you place technology somewhere, that’s going to do wonders,” said Aditya Vashistha, assistant professor in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science. “People thought, ‘Hey, let’s just put up helplines’ and it’s goi...