Earlier this month I was in Tokyo for the International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI). I was there to demo research from the ABBI project. We had two ABBI demos from the Multimodal Interaction Group at the conference: mine demonstrated how ABBI could be used to adapt the lighting at home for visually impaired children, and Graham’s was about using non-visual stimulus (e.g., thermal, vibration) to present affective cues in a more accessible way for visually impaired smartphone users.
The conference was good and it was held in an amazing city – Tokyo. Next year, ICMI visits another amazing city – Glasgow! Julie and Alessandro from the Glasgow Interactive Systems Group will be hosting the conference here at Glasgow Uni.