Professor Anne Roudaut, Professor of Human Computer-Interaction, School of Computer Science, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Engineering Maths, University of Bristol

Introduced by Professor Mike Fraser, Head of Department for Computer Science

Talk Title: No More Boring Boxes! The Rise of Funky Form Factors in Interactive Devices

Abstract: This inaugural lecture explores the cutting-edge research that has been done over more than 14 years by Prof. Anne Roudaut and her team specialised in Human Computer Interaction. Her particular focus has been on creating metamaterials made up of display elements, sensors, and actuators, embedding them within future digital technologies, and understanding their impact on human factors. Her work seeks to radically rethink the way we build digital technologies, moving beyond the static shape of our current devices and towards shape-changing devices that are malleable and can reconfigure into any shape, providing affordances that unleash users' interactive potential. Through collaboration with researchers from Robotic, Material and Chemical engineering, her research aims to both understand the underlying science behind interaction with arbitrary-shaped and reconfigurable devices, as well as to create the innovative interactive metamaterials that can fundamentally transform our future interactive landscape.

Biography: Anne Roudaut is a Professor of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and lead to the Bristol Interaction Group (BIG) at the University of Bristol (UK). She joined the university 11 years ago as a Research Associate (2012-2014) and progressed to Leverhulme Fellow and Lecturer (2015-2018), Assistant Professor (2018-2019), Associate Professor (2019-2022), and was appointed as chair in August 2022. Before she was as a research assistant at the Hasso Plattner Institute (Germany). She did her PhD at Telecom ParisTech (France) and her love for HCI research dates back from exactly 20 years ago, when she did her first internship as a Bachelor student at the University of Joseph Fourier (France). For more details on Anne’s research: www.anneroudaut.fr

Itinerary:

1:30 pm: Arrival, tea/coffee and cake in the Pugsley Lecture Theatre Foyer, Queen's Building

2:00 pm: Professor Mike Fraser introduces, Professor Anne Roudaut Inaugural lecture

3:00 pm: Break, prosecco and soft drinks

3:00 - 5:00 pm: Posters (rooms to be confirmed, Queens' Building)

5:00 pm: Finish

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Inaugural Lecture: Professor Anne Roudaut