Press

Here’s a selection of some of the press coverage for CHI 2016. For further press enquires contact CHI 2016 Press Liaison Lexi Mills

Press Coverage

• Paper gets ‘smart’ with drawn-on, stenciled sensor tags
  Michelle Ma
  Washington Univeristy – May 11th
• Technique processes RFID signals rapidly for real-time interactivity
  Carnegie Mellon University
  Carnegie Mellon University – May 11th
• Smartwatches to soon follow finger commands in mid-air
  IANS
  Gulf News – May 11th
• Big thinking in small pieces: Computer guides humans in crowdsourced research
  News
  Sciencecodex – May 11th
• Researchers Develop flexible 3D Smartphone
  Sven Stein
  Bld,de – May 11th
• HoloFlex, smartphone hologram fleksibel 3D pertama di dunia
  Nur Romdlon
  brillo – May 11th
• Microsoft pregăteşte ecranul touch predictiv, care iniţiază comanda următoare înainte de a-l atinge
  Aurelian Mihai
  descopera.ro – May 11th
• How will people interact with technology in the future
  Staff Writers
  Space Daily – May 11th
• Microsoft Research designs touchscreen that predicts how you’re going to touch it
  Ryan Whitwam
  extremetech.com – May 10th
• Canadian group develops ‘holographic’ flexible smartphone
  Matthew Peach
  Optics.org – May 10th
• CardBoardiZer’ allows users to create robotic models in minutes (w/video)
  Emil Venere
  Nonowerk.com – May 10th
• On-The-Fly Print by Cornell team 3D prints high speed wireframe prototypes while you design
  Alec
  3ders.org – May 10th
• Microsoft: SparseLight with extended field of view to simulator sickness
  Denise Bergert
  heise.de – May 10th
• Phones that Curve and Produce 3D Images
  Carlos Gomez Abajo
  .larazon.es – May 10th
• Microsoft: SparseLight with extended field of view to simulator sickness
  Denise Bergert
  Heise Newsticker – May 10th
• Microsoft vs. VR nausea: prototype to simulator sickness
  WinFuture
  http://winfuture.de/news,92265.html – May 10th
• How will people interact with technology in the future?
  bristol.ac.uk
  bristol.ac.uk – May 9th
• MIT’s Latest Tangible Interface? Shape-Shifting Digital Clay
  John Brownlee
  Fastcodesign – May 9th
• SkinTrack turns your arm into a touchscreen
  Amanda Waltz
  nextpittsburgh.com – May 9th
• The Microsoft phone that reacts BEFORE you touch it: ‘Precognitive’ handset uses sensors to anticipate what you will do next
  Richard Gray
  Daily Mail – May 9th
• Microsoft Designs Pre-Touch in Mobile Devices
  Greg Watry
  rdmag.com – May 9th
• HoloFlex Phone: Researchers Develop World’s First Fully 3D Holographic Cellphone [VIDEO]
  Peter de Jesus,
  Enstarz – May 9th
• HoloFlex smartphone developers designing 3D screen, demo ‘Angry Birds’ [VIDEO]
  Abbey Vannelli
  en.yibada – May 9th
• Forget the iPhone 7, this bendy ‘hologram’ handset may be the future of phones: HoloFlex device lets users see 3D images WITHOUT special glasses
  Sarah Griffiths
  Daily Mail – May 9th
• Digital Media may be Changing How You Think: Study
  Agencies
  bangaloremirror.com – May 9th
• Use the PC or tablet to read reduces the ability of abstraction
  Enrique Alpuente
  Elmundo – May 9th
• This flexible, holographic smartphone could be your next option
  Kevy Kathon
  Techone3 – May 8th
• Holoflex, the First Flexible Holographic Glasses-free 3D Display
  Yolanda Curtis
  Newstoday.net – May 8th
• This Holographic, Flexible Smartphone Makes ‘Angry Birds’ Way Better

  Motherboard.vice – May 8th

• Watch this smartwatch turn an arm into a touchscreen control
  Elyse Betters
  Pocket-lint – May 7th
• Meet HoloFlex, a 3D printed smartphone with flexible screen and a holographic display
  Jem Gezen
  Techtimes – May 7th
• This watch turns your arm into a touchscreen
  Ivana Kottasova
  CNN Money – May 6th
• New Wearable Technology Turns Lower Arm into Touchpad
  News
  Azosensors – May 6th

• SkinTrack Technology Turns Arm Into Smartwatch Touchpad
  Carnegie Mellon University
  ECN Mag – May 6th
• Engineers Create Tool That Turns Skin into Touchpads
  Ryan Bushey
  RD Mag – May 6th
• Dexta are Making Haptic Exoskeleton Gloves that Lets VR Push Back
  Road to VR
  Road Tovr – May 6th
• Design tool enables novices to create bendable input devices for computers
  Provided by: Disney Research
  Phys.org – May 6th
• THIS FLEXIBLE, HOLOGRAPHIC SMARTPHONE IS THE FUTURE
  Dave Gershgorn
  Popular Science – May 6th
• Researchers have developed a flexible holographic smartphone screen that plays a mean game of ‘Angry Birds’
  Brian Heater
  Tech Crunch – May 6th
• HoloFlex is prototype Android smartphone with a flexible display and glasses-free 3D
  John Dye
  Android Authority – May 6th
• HoloFlex: A Flexible Smartphone with a Holographic Display
  Evan Ackerman
  Spectrum.ieee – May 6th
• Queen’s University Human Media Lab to unveil flexible 3D smartphone display
  TERRY DAWES
  Can Tech Letter – May 6th
• Never play Angry Birds he was so “real” that’s HoloFlex, flexible and mobile Holographic
  ANNA MART
  Xtakamovil.com – May 6th
• HoloFlex, the first holographic smartphone and flexible
  Alberto Guerrero
  Actual App – May 6th
• TO TEST LUNG FUNCTION, BLOW INTO ANY PHONE
  Futurity – May 5th
• Smartphones next big thing: ‘Pre-Touch’
  Chris Burns
  Slash Gear – May 5th
• Queen’s University Develops Holographic Flexible Smartphone
  Dick Mathison
  Kingston Herald – May 5th
• Haptic retargeting enables convincing touch control in the virtual world
  Shawn Knight
  Tech Spot – May 5th
• Two-minute warnings make kids’ ‘screen time’ tantrums worse
  Jennifer Langston
  Washington.edu – May 5th
• ‘Two-Minute Warnings’ Make Turning Off the TV Harder
  KJ Dell Antonia
  New York Times – May 5th
• SkinTrack technology turns arm into smartwatch touchpad
  Carnegie Mellon University
  Carnegie Mellon University – May 5th
• Microsoft Research propose solution for small Field of View on VR and AR (video)
  Surur – Editor and Chief Editor in chief
  MS power user – May 4th
• Microsoft Research combats VR nausea with inexpensive LED arrays
  Scott Collie
  Gizmag – May 4th
• Microsoft Research propose solution for small Field of View on VR and AR (video)
  Surur – Editor and Chief Editor in chief
  MS Power User – May 4th
• The Formula For Balancing The Math And Magic Of Marketing
  Steve Olenski
  Forbes – May 4th
• Microsoft thinks disorientation is the key to touch in VR
  Steve Dent
  engadget – May 3rd
• Microsoft can trick VR gamers into thinking they’re stacking real Minecraft blocks
  Kirsty Styles
  The Next Web – May 3rd
• Just breathe: Doctors using phones to detect lung disease
  Matt Markovich
  komonews – May 3rd
• Leveraging the Phone-to-Measure Lung Function
  Greg Watry, Digital Reporter
  RD May – May 3rd
• Breathe easy: Over-the-phone lung monitoring is just a 1-800 call away
  Nick Lavars
  Gizmag – May 3rd
• A single call could reveal health of your lungs
  IANS (news service wire)
  timesofindia – May 3rd
• Researchers develop SpiroCall that can accurately measure lung function over simple phone call
  IANS (news service wire)
  news-medical.net – May 3rd
• University of Washington’s Shwetak Patel develops tool to measure lung function over phone call
  IANS (news service wire)
  americanbazaaronline.com – May 3rd
• Researchers Develop Health Sensing Tool that Accurately Measures Lung Function Over a Phone Call
  Internal team
  AZO Sensors – May 3rd
• New Health Sensing Tool Measures Lung Function Over a Phone Call
  IANS
  North East Today – May 3rd
• Augmented games can increase the diversity of sports
  Staff writers
  spacedaily.com – May 2nd
• Health sensing tool measures lung function over a phone call, from anywhere in the world
  Science Daily – May 2nd
• Microsoft Research’s haptic retargeting is trying to enhance virtual reality experiences (full video)
  Surur – Editor and Chief Editor in chief
  MS Power User – May 2nd
• Forget your DP, the future of romance is in your data
  Internal team
  Catch News – May 2nd
• A virtual reality game that’s good for you and scientist-approved. This small indie game could be the Xanax of VR.
  Joseph Volpe
  engadget – April 28th
• Buddy, can you spare a watt?
  Paul Marks
  The Economist – April 28th
• Microsoft to showcase advances in virtual reality and more at CHI 2016
  Kit Mcdonald
  http://www.winbeta.org/ – April 28th
• Microsoft Research’s new project aims to improve Field-of-View of AR and VR Displays
  Pradeep
  MS Power User – April 26th
• Cheap LEDs could fix HoloLen’s biggest problem
  Chris Davies
  Slash Gear – April 26th
• Everyone Role-Plays in Video Games, Study Finds
  Leif Johnson
  Vice – April 23rd
• How Are We Coping with Technology in the Digital Workplace?
  David Lavenda
  CMS wire – April 22nd
• Forget Tinder, Here Comes Metadating
  Paul Watson
  Ask Men – April 21st
• Technology Becomes Us: The Age of Human-Computer Interaction
  Brian Hughes
  Huffington Post – April 20th
• Don’t like the buttons on your toaster? Just print your own
  Paul Marks
  New Scientist – April 20th
• FlexCase: Biegbares E-Ink-Cover favors Smartphone
  via Gizmodo
  http://ebook-fieber.de/ – April 20th
• Metadating helps you find love based on your everyday data
  Aviva Rutkin
  newscientist.com – April 20th
• The Brave New World of Technology: What Comes After the Bots
  David Lavenda
  CMS wire – April 19th
• Microsoft Research: FlexCase, custodia per smartphone con display flessibile
  Salvatore Carrozzini
  hwupgrade.it – April 18th
• Don’t like the buttons on your toaster? Just print your own
  Paul Marks
  The New Scientist – April 18th
• One Day Your Smartphone’s Case Will Do Far More Than Just Protect It
  Andrew Liszewski
  http://gizmodo.com/ – April 15th
• Gesture-based interaction on smart devices
  Praphanit Doowa
  dailyuw.com – April 14th
• Gesture-based interaction on smart devices
  The Daily – April 14th
• Experiencing Underwater Worlds, Virtually
  MIT NEWs
  Communications of the ACM – April 14th
• Amphibian SCUBA Diving Simulator Lets Abled People Experience Underwater World
  News
  Azo Sensors – April 12th
• Amphibian’ Diving Simulator Advances Field of Virtual Reality
  Sharon Lacey
  PDNet – April 12th
• Experiencing underwater worlds, virtually
  Sharon Lacey
  MIT News – April 11th
• Experiencing Underwater Worlds, Virtually
  MIT news
  Oxford Virtual – April 11th
• Experiencing underwater worlds, virtually
  Sharon Lacey
  scimplified.com – April 11th
• Dull Your Senses and Expand Your Mind
  Sharon Lacey
  Arts at MIT – April 8th
• No-Touch Smartwatch Possible Using Sonar
  Sean Duffy
  courthousenews.com – April 8th
• Gardner-Webb undergraduate, graduate students showcase research
  http://elkintribune.com/ – March 26th
• Holland native presents research at Gardner-Webb University conference
  hollandsentinel.com – March 24th
• Holland native presents research at Gardner-Webb University conference
  hollandsentinel.com – March 24th
• Sonar Lets You Control Your Smartphone Without Even Touching It
  Diana Budds
  fastcodesign.com – March 23rd
• Sonar Lets You Control Your Smartphone Without Even Touching It
  Diana Budds
  fastcodesign.com – March 23rd
• SMARTWATCHES CAN TRACK YOUR FINGER IN MID-AIR NOWBangalore Mirror Bureau – March 19th
• Drawn to Safety: Doodles Could Secure Your Phone
  Mindy Weisberger,
  livescience.com – March 17th
• Soon, smartwatches to follow mid-air finger commands
  IANS
  http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ – March 16th
• Scientists Gave The Finger To This Smartwatch And It Responded [VIDEO]
  Catherine Arnold
  HNGN – March 16th
• Mobile App Uses Sonar to Track Mid-Air Finger Movements
  Greg Watry
  rdmag.com – March 16th
• Smartwatch this: Sonar technology developed at UW tracks finger movement in mid-air
  Kurt Schlosser
  Geek Wire – March 15th
• Smartwatches can now track your finger in mid-air using sonar
  Jennifer Langston
  washington.edu/news – March 15th
• Smartphone security: Why doodling trumps text passwords
  Rutgers University
  sciencedaily.com – March 10th
• MAYBE YOUR PHONE’S PASSWORD SHOULD BE A DOODLE
  Todd Bates-Rutgers
  futurity.org – March 10th
• Smart thermostat puts energy money saving at household fingertips
  Science Daily – February 5th
• Bitcoin study reveals false beliefs on ease of use and privacy
  Science Daily – January 26th
• What if you could connect your smartphone to all kinds of smart
  Rachel Metz
  technologyreview.com – January 15th