Meet my adviser Katherine Isbister + her Google Tech Talk
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 5:14PM Everyone (all twelve of you), meet Katherine Isbister. I met her last October at Meaningful Play 2010. Fast forward several months. Katherine is now my Ph.D. adviser, and I’m moving to New York City.
Katherine is super cool. But don’t take my word for it. In March of this year, she presented a Google Tech Talk Emotion and Motion: Using Movement Design to Shape User Experience [youtube]. She presented an overview of her research into how motion and gesture-based user interfaces influence how we feel… Can power poses used within a video game teaching kids fractions generate confidence to reinforce learning? Could the stress of processing our email inbox be better managed if we interacted with email like we were tending a garden? Maybe the unlock motion for the iPhone feels good — and maybe it does because it’s like petting your kitty.
