Exploring relationships between people , devices and displays

The Interact lab is concerned with the creation of innovative technologies that can be successfully deployed in a variety of real-world settings including schools, public spaces. We position ourselves under the HCI/interaction theme, where we see our key driver as not only moving beyond the desktop to explore innovative relationships between the physical and digital as part of a ubicomp environment, but also by including user experience, user data, and the deployment context as key components of the technology development process. This is so that we can explore how interactions between people, technologies, and representations play out in these environments. By means of three projects that illustrate this approach, Equator, Dynamo and eSpace, we discuss our explorations in ubiquitous computing, as well as some of our visions.