Human-Computer Interaction & Virtual Environments

Worldwide campaign for neurorights notches its first win

IEEE Spectrum: The government of Chile is taking a stand: Its citizens must be protected from technologies that are capable of mind control, mind reading, or any other nefarious interference with their brains. While such concerns used to be relegated to…

8 virtual field trips for STEM education

eSchool News: It’s January. Winter break is over, and the rest of the school year–whether in person, hybrid, or virtual–seems never-ending. And while traditional field trips are on pause while COVID still spreads, virtual field trips are still very much possible….

The therapists using AI to make therapy better

Technology Review: Kevin Cowley remembers many things about April 15, 1989. He had taken the bus to the Hillsborough soccer stadium in Sheffield, England, to watch the semifinal championship game between Nottingham Forest and Liverpool. He was 17. It was a…

Building Human-Robot Relationships Through Music and Dance

IEEE Spectrum: There’s no reliably good way of getting a human to trust a robot. Part of the problem is that robots, generally, just do whatever they’ve been programmed to do, and for a human, there’s typically no feeling that the…