The second day of CHI started off quite happily for me as I was presenting my new work on Proprioceptive Interaction (sorry for shameful link!) at the muscle-interfaces session which was very interesting. In this session researchers discussed how future muscle sensing can be increased for higher resolution input or even by combining multiple technologies such as EMG and MMG. After that I could relax a bit and attend more interesting sessions on a variety of different topics! Later on, there were sessions on smartwatch interactions, which demonstrate that we are no longer in the smartwatch hype but instead we are really in the wearables era! Great to see that research are also thinking already beyond-wearables, skin interaction, smaller devices, haptic wearables and so forth, which will be presented tomorrow (Day 3, check the post too): looking forward to that!

Later on I attended a very interesting and futuristic session on 3D fabrication which in the same vein, demonstrates that we are beyond 3D printing only in the maker community but also in the HCI community! In this session researchers showed their new ideas for the world of fabrication, such as 3D printing using soft fabric (great for plushy-toys!), check their video here.

The day ended with the job fair… a great opportunity to the more junior people to find internships and perhaps a new position either at industry or research labs!