ERC
Updated 584 days ago
4 pages, Berlin, Germany
Our goal is to build upon a set of fundamental principles, including instrumental interaction, substrates and co-adaptive systems, to describe, evaluate and generate ideas for novel interactive systems... Extreme situations. We develop extreme environments that push the limits of today's technology. We take as given that future developments will solve "practical" problems such as cost, reliability and performance and concentrate our efforts on interaction in and with such environments. This has been a successful strategy in the past: Personal computers only became prevalent after the invention of the desktop graphical user interface. Smartphones and tablets only became commercially successful after Apple cracked the problem of a usable touch-based interface for the iPhone and the iPad. Although wearable technologies, such as watches and glasses, are finally beginning to take off, we do not believe that they will create the major disruptions already caused by personal computers,..