CHCI Ninth Annual Workshop
A one-day symposium hosted by Virginia Tech’s Center for Human-Computer Interaction. The Center for Human-Computer Interaction (CHCI) invites you to submit your big idea to our Ninth Annual Workshop on the Future of HCI.
The workshop is scheduled for Friday, March 28, 2025, and it is a unique opportunity for researchers—faculty members and students —to propose work on complex challenges relevant to human-computer interaction and see what other members propose.
When
Friday, March 28, 2025
8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Where
Gilbert Place #2124
220 Gilbert Street
Room 2124
Keynote speaker
Dr. Steve Feiner
Professor of Computer Science
Columbia University
What More Can We Want?
There has been over a half century of research and development in VR and AR. While custom hardware and software prevailed in the ’60s and ’70s, commercial systems have been sold to labs since the ’80s, to ardent hobbyists since the ’90s, and now to tens of millions of others. Smart glasses are also becoming a commodity, breathlessly celebrated by technology journalists. But even as progress and publicity escalate, there is much more that must be done to fulfill and surpass the dreams of early researchers. In this talk, I will provide a personal overview of some of what “much more” entails. I will suggest directions that could be taken to improve hardware, software, and the ways we interact with them, to better address our human capabilities and needs.