Human-Computer Interaction & Virtual Environments

‘Operating With Increased Intensity’: Zuckerberg Leads Meta Into Next Phase

New York Times: Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and chief executive of the company formerly known as Facebook, called his top lieutenants for the social network to a last-minute meeting in the…

Scientists Engineer Glove Inspired by Octopus Tentacles

Discover Magazine: If you’ve ever held a fish, you know that people are terrible at grabbing wet, slippery surfaces. In fact, some scientists think that our fingers get pruney just to manipulate objects underwater. In a new study, researchers invented a…

How Robots Can Help Us Feel Younger

IEEE Spectrum: By 2050, the global population aged 65 or more will be nearly double what it is today. The number of people over the age of 80 will triple, approaching half a billion. Supporting an aging population is a worldwide concern, but this demographic shift is especially pronounced in…

Wandering Robots in the Wild

IEEE Spectrum: In order to better understand how people will interact with mobile robots in the wild, we need to take them out of the lab and deploy them in the real world. But this isn’t easy to do. Roboticists tend to develop robots under the assumption that they’ll know…