[4eyes] FW: [Sage-center] Reminder: SAGE Center lecture by Sir Colin Blakemore Monday @ 4 p.m., Psych 1312

[Matthew Turk]

Some of you may be interested in two talks tomorrow at about the same time, both below.

 

            Matthew

 

Computer Science Faculty Candidate: Xiang Chen (Carnegie Mellon University)

Date: Monday, February 13, 2017, 3:30pm

Location: 1132 Harold Frank Hall

Title: Computational Design and Fabrication to Augment the Physical World

 

Host: Tobias Höllerer

 

We are looking towards a future where a wide range of fabrication machines--from desktop 3D printers to industrial robotic arms--will allow end-users to create physical objects of their own designs. I develop computational design tools that enable end-users to express and convey their ideas into fabrication-ready 3D models. For example, Encore lets users print new parts directly onto, around or through existing objects; Reprise helps users generate and customize adaptations to mechanically enhance existing objects; Façade creates Braille overlays from user-taken photos to make appliances visually accessible; Forté turns a user's design into structures that can robustly support existing objects. In all these tools, the ultimate goal of fabrication is to augment the physical world, extending, adapting, annotating, or supporting existing objects to improve the quality of users' everyday lives.

 

Xiang "Anthony" Chen is a PhD student working with Scott Hudson and Stelian Coros from the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. His research develops technical and design approaches to build novel human-computer interfaces that enhance users' physical interactivity with ubiquitous computers, or enable their creativity in fabricating physical objects of their design (e.g., using 3D printing). Anthony is an Adobe Research Fellow in Human-Computer Interaction. Frequently collaborating with industrial research labs (Microsoft, Autodesk, and Google), he has published 13 papers in top-tier HCI conferences and journal (CHI, UIST, and TOCHI) and has received two best paper awards.

 

 

Sir Colin Blakemore’s first SAGE Center Distinguished Fellow lecture, “Seeing in Three Dimensions: Learning from Michelangelo’s Mistake” is Monday, February 13 at 4 p.m., Psychology 1312. Sir Blakemore’s description of this talk follows:

 

We see the world in three dimensions, despite the fact that the image in our eye is essentially two-dimensional. Animals with forward-pointing eyes have the luxury of stereoscopic vision – the ability to interpret the relative distances of features in the world from the tiny differences between the images in the two eyes. But if you close one eye, you can still perceive distance from information in the single image. Figurative painting depends completely on the viewer’s ability to infer depth from monocular cues, especially perspective, even when the surface of a painting is actually flat. I shall discuss the possible brain mechanisms for interpreting perspective, whether and how monocular cues are integrated with stereoscopic vision, and the implications of this for figurative art and architecture.  And I shall offer an explanation for one of the puzzles in the history of architecture – why Michelangelo made a mistake in the design of Rome’s most famous piazza.

 
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