DRF Lunchtime Clinic - Prof Per Ola Kristensson

Rounding out our series of prestigious speakers at the DRF Lunchtime Clinics for the Michaelmas term 2024, Professor Per Ola Kristensson,  Professor of Interactive Systems Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge joins us to talk on Designing human-AI systems in virtual and augmented reality.

Virtual and augmented reality open up new interaction capabilities and the potential for many exciting use cases in manufacturing, training, gaming, and other scenarios. However, empirical research reveals that such technologies also give rise to several user experience issues and barriers to extended use that limit the impact of such technologies in practice. In this talk, I will discuss the positive and negative qualities of immersive technologies and demonstrate how human-AI system design principles can be used to create virtual and augmented reality systems that allow designers to bestow users with superhuman capabilities that can yield interaction experiences that are otherwise impossible to realise. 

Professor Kristensson leads the Intelligent Interactive Systems group, which belongs to the Engineering Design Centre. He is a co-founder and co-director of the Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence at the University of Cambridge. He is interested in designing intelligent interactive systems that enable people to be more creative, expressive and satisfied in their daily lives.