Why take your gloves off to swipe and tap your phone when you could bend the corner to answer your phone call?
Bending, flexing and warping mobile communications devices offers new ways to communicate with the mobile device that have become an extension of our lives.
Join Carleton’s Audrey Girouard, an assistant professor in the School of Information Technology, at the FED Talks event on Wednesday, April 2, 2014 to learn about new ways that people will communicate with electronic devices in the near future.
Girouard is on the cutting edge of next-generation communications technologies. Her research in the field of human computer interaction has her working with thin, flexible displays that can be bent to provide input. Need to flip the page of your e-book? Just bend the corner of the screen. This deformable user interface will shape the next generation of displays.
When: Wednesday, April 2, 2014 from 6:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m.
Where: Sunnyside Library, 1049 Bank St., Ottawa
This free series is open to the public and everyone is encouraged to come out and learn. Coffee and snacks will be available.
FED Talks is a speaker series from Carleton’s Faculty of Engineering and Design that engages the community in discussions of timely and innovative ideas in engineering, design and technology. FED Talks makes engineering accessible and helps illuminate the difference applied science and technology makes in everyone’s daily lives.
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