[Seminar] "Shaping Experiences by Designing Sensorimotor Contingencies" by Dr. Paul Strohmeier

Speaker: Dr. Paul Strohmeier
Group Leader of Sensorimotor Interaction Group at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics

Title: Shaping Experiences by Designing Sensorimotor Contingencies

Abstract:

Our experience of the world is mediated by a continuous feedback loop between motor activity and sensory stimuli. Manipulating these sensorimotor loops offers a powerful means to influence user experience. Such loops, updating in milliseconds, demand devices with higher temporal resolution than those typically used in conventional human-computer interaction (HCI). In this talk, I will show how tapping into sensorimotor loops with tactile feedback allows us to alter our experience of the physical world and our own bodily sensations. Additionally, I will discuss how we can go beyond simply augmenting experience to enhancing human expression through sensorimotor augmentation.
 

Bio:

Paul Strohmeier leads the Sensorimotor Interaction Group at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. His research focuses on developing interactive systems that enable the exploration of human perception and action. Through his work, he aims to design new ways of experiencing ourselves, communicating with each other, and interacting with technology.
He has been awarded an ERC Grant for his research on "Kinesthetic Displays," where he explores and develops algorithms to vibrate actuators in ways that generate sensations of movement.
Paul holds a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Copenhagen. His dissertation, Shaping Material Experiences – Designing Vibrotactile Feedback for Active Perception, supervised by Kasper Hornbæk, received the SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award. He earned a Master of Science in Computer Science from Queen’s University, Canada, and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy of Science and Technology from University College Maastricht.

URL:
https://sensint.mpi-inf.mpg.de/