Human Media Lab

Human Media Lab

Established	2000
Field of Research	Human-computer interaction Flexible displays
Location	Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Affiliations	Queen's University

The Human Media Lab (HML) is a research laboratory. It is in Queen's University's School of Computing in Kingston, Ontario. The school works on user interface design and technologies. The Human Media Lab was founded in 2000 by Prof. Roel Vertegaal. It gives jobs to an average of 12 graduate students

The laboratory has worked on flexible display and paper computers. For example, it has worked with PaperWindows (2004),^[1] PaperPhone (2010)^[2] and PaperTab (2012).^[3] It has also worked on Samsung's Smart Pause and Smart Scroll^[4] technologies.

Location and Facilities

The Human Media Lab is in Jackson Hall in the Queen's University campus.

Other websites

• Human Media Lab website

References

1. Holman, D., Vertegaal, R. and Troje, N. (2005). PaperWindows: Interaction Techniques for Digital Paper. In Proceedings of ACM CHI 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM Press, 591-599.
2. Lahey, B., Girouard, A., Burleson, W. and R. Vertegaal. (2011). PaperPhone: Understanding the Use of Bend Gestures in Mobile Devices with Flexible Electronic Paper Displays. In Proceedings of ACM CHI’11 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM Press, 1303-1312.
3. Warner, B. (2013). PaperTab a Fold-Up, Roll-Up Tablet Computer. Bloomberg Businessweek, May 2013.
4. Dickie, C., Vertegaal, R., Sohn C., and Cheng, D. (2005). eyeLook: using attention to facilitate mobile media consumption. In Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST '05). ACM Press, 103-106.