Chris Harrison – Making Human-Computer Interaction Delightful

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

What if touchscreen technology could be applied to whole environments? Could you have a multi-touch sensitive house, with all the walls receiving input from the user? These are the kinds of questions posed by Chris Harrison, professor at CMU. Harrison is a computer scientist by training, and the focus of his research is human-computer interaction. Harrison explains that it's taking insights from computer science and science generally and "applying them to this very specific problem of trying to get the interaction between human and computer more powerful, more intuitive, and overall just more delightful."
The touch screen experience hasn't really changed in the past 10 years, since the release of the iPhone. Chris Harrison sees touch screen technology becoming a more ubiquitous element in our rapidly changing world. It'll be more than the little rectangle in your pocket, or your bag. It could be part of your interface to everyday life.
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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:07.9	Future Technologies always to transform our lives for better or worse are the focus of this podcast.
0:13.6	Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.
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0:19.7	From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,
0:22.0	3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:25.8	Hi, this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast.
0:28.9	Today, my guest is Chris Harrison.
0:31.2	He's faculty at CMU, and he works in the Department of Human Computer Interaction.
0:37.6	Chris, how you doing?
0:38.2	That's right.
0:38.9	I'm good.
0:39.4	Thanks for having me.
0:40.6	Yeah, I appreciate it.
0:41.8	So, couldn't you give listeners just a brief overview of your research and your efforts in this area right now?
0:48.6	Yeah, of course.
0:49.6	So I'm a computer scientist by training, and what I'm focusing on in my research is human
0:55.8	computer interaction.
0:57.0	So taking a lot of the advances that we're seeing in computer science and in technology broadly
1:01.7	and applying them to this very specific problem of trying to make the interaction between
1:06.2	human and computer more powerful, more intuitive, and overall it was more delightful.
1:11.6	So specifically, what, you know, I've drilled down a little bit. What are you working on
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