22 years after the first prototype, and 13 years after PaperFold, Apple has announced the iPhone Duo, its first foldable smartphone. It includes not just the form factor, but many of the interaction techniques pioneered here, including the popup shape-based keyboard/trackpad. While HML technologies already featured in FaceID and the attention-aware interaction techniques of iPhones, this is the first time that Apple has adopted an entire product category.
June 26th, University of Copenhagen. Interactive Inference and the Potential Energy of Actions
Friday June 26th at 14:00, Professor Vertegaal will be addressing members of the new TRACTION Institute in Theoretical HCI at the University of Copenhagen on Interactive Inference. I will discuss how quantifying the amount of surprise in a task can produce elegant behavioural laws that appear to be governing user performance and error, predicting Fitts’ and Hick’s Law.
Read MoreJune 15th: Interactive Inference: A Simplified Active Inference Account of Interaction
In this presentation, I explore simplifications to Active Inference that make its central intuitions more accessible to designers, HCI researchers, and other non-mathematical users.