XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students

In this curation of his work, performance artist Stelarc, explains the process of extending his body and his self while exploring movement, sound, and autonomy.

The sense of smell, or olfaction, is probably the most underappreciated and the least understood and exploited in human-computer interaction. However, in the future, wearable devices will not only be able to sense and provide audio-visual cues but will ...

A designerly journey into textiles and HCI leads to thinking about data as a material for a cybernetic future.

Novel wearable computing devices challenge our perception of what is socially acceptable. Research in human-computer interaction asks, "What makes a wearable socially acceptable?" and provides insights that may help designers and developers design for ...

Novel technological systems enabling people to control multiple robotic avatars simultaneously could support more accessible ways to multitask. An implementation of a parallel avatar system in a cafe shows that, leveraging their existing skills, remote ...

A head-up display has been part of my daily life for more than two decades, and people often ask why I wear one. This article makes explicit some of the benefits of video conferencing and shows how a head-worn display provides similar benefits when ...