Just as human-computer interaction was once a burgeoning new field and now is a given in system design, human-future interaction is poised to become more essential to our strategic planning and innovation processes.
Tall buildings, walkable neighborhoods, and a good transit system reduce the average cost of face-to-face interaction in exactly the same way that steam ships and low tariffs reduced the average costs of shipping goods to the other side of the world.
The system could thus provide astronomers with invaluable information about planet-disc interaction, suggests Alan Boss, a leading planet-formation theorist at the Carnegie Institution in Washington.
The talk will include "technical content involving head-mounted display hardware and its interaction with the human perceptual system, " with Abrash examining one real world discrepancy to which human perception is sensitive.