A CS Seminar entitled “Wearable Interactions Using Touch without a Touchscreen” was held today, 7 August 2018, at DR10, COM2-02-24 from 10:30 am to 12 pm. The speaker is none other than the Assistant Professor Computer Science at Dartmouth College, USA, Dr. Yang Xingdong.

The long term goal of the the research is to develop interaction modalities that are easy, intuitive, and efficient for interacting with small wearable devices.

About Dr. Yang Xingdong

Xing-Dong Yang is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College, USA. Xing-Dong completed his Bachelor of Computer Science in 2005 from the University of Manitoba, Canada. He earned his Master of Computing Science with a specialization in Haptic Interfaces in 2008 from the University of Alberta, Canada and his Doctorate in Computing Science with a specialization in Human-Computer Interaction in 2013 from the same university. During his graduate work he was a research intern at Autodesk Research in Toronto and Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing. His dissertation work was awarded the 2013 Bill Buxton Best Canadian HCI Dissertation Award, given anually for the best doctoral dissertation completed at a Canadian university in the field og human-computer interaction. He has over thirty publications in top-tier venues in HCI, including the ACM Conference on Human Factors and Systems (ACM CHI) and the ACM Conference on User Interfaces and Technology (ACM UIST). His work has also been recognized through best paper nominations at ACM CHI 2018, 2016, 2010 and ACM MobileHCI 2009, as well as featured in public press through Discovery News, NBC, and New Scientist. Xing-Dong’s work id currently funded by Microsoft and NSF.