CultureLab Newcastle

Culture Lab Newcastle

Han Cao (Research Student)

Han in a PhD student in the School of Computing Science and is working with Patrick Olivier on aspects of pervasive interaction design and evaluation. After graduating with an MSc degree in Music Technology from the University of York, he expanded his interests from psychoacoustics, sound design and audio programming to human-computer interaction, ambient intelligence and pervasive computing.

Currently his research focuses on exploiting aspects of cognition, such as crossmodal attention, in the design and evaluation of novel interaction techniques utilising personal mobile devices and public ambient displays. The goal of his research program is to solve problems relating to privacy, user peripheral attention and interface adaptation in current public spaces and future ambient intelligent environments. Han’s initial systems CrossFlow and CrossBoard have demonstrated significant results both in the usability of such systems and the cognitive effort required to use them.