Ken Nakagaki

This clever gadget is like a procrastination calculator Attention Receipts, a gadget that quantifies your time spent on YouTube, is a winner of Fast Company's 2025 Innovation by Design Awards.

You can read more about the project and thoughts behind it in the article by Fast Company!
www.fastcompany.com/91388806/anu...

Attention Receipts (led by AxLab's PhD student, Anup Sathya) has been selected as the Winner of this year’s @fastcompany.com Innovation by Design Awards – Student Category!

It also received the Linda Tischer Award, recognizing the rising design talent. Congratulations, Anup! 🎉

🚨 Call for Papers + Pictorials is out for #TEI2026! 🚨

Deadline: August 7 (AoE) for both categories.

We’re excited to receive your creative, bold, and whimsical studies, theories, and prototypes — and to see them presented in Chicago (or online) in March 2026!!!

📢 Axhibition2025 'Whimsical Criti...cal'

Axhibition is an annual showcase featuring the latest projects from AxLab & class (Actuated UIs & Tech). Join us for an afternoon of critical whimsy✨

📅 March 11 (Tues) 1–5pm
📍 JCL 1F
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Can thinking with data benefit society? @UChicago #datascience #ai #airesearch YouTube video by UChicago Data Science Institute

How can helping people think with data benefit society?

Explore the research of Alex Kale (@kalealex.bsky.social), Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science at the University of Chicago!

www.youtube.com/shorts/8SkXI...

Paper Signals – A kit to make your own paper display that tracks useful stuff like weather, rocket launches, and more — blankensmith Paper Signals A DIY kit that lets you build a little paper display to track things like weather, currency, and rocket launches. They don’t have a screen or...

This homework was inspired by isaacblankensmith.com/Paper-Signal...

This is my 3rd year teaching the class 'Actuated UIs & Tech.'

One of my favorite homework assignments is themed 'the mini, personal desktop notification device.' It looks terrific to review students' creations as we expand the class from 20 to 32 students!

Chicago Tonight | Chicago Lab Connects Computers With the Human Body | Season 2025 Pedro Lopes leads the Human-Computer Integration Lab at the University of Chicago.

Curious about what we are doing at @UChicago to advance Human Computer Integration? www.pbs.org/video/chicag... shows how we connect computers with the body to provide physical embodied assistance—1st live demo of Yun Ho (new PhD) where she shows wearable muscle stimulation to the TV reporter! 1/3

University of Chicago Lab Connects Computers With the Human Body In this lab, you can find students working on projects like a smartwatch incorporating muscle stimulation, an augmented headset that expands our perception, or a device to assist individuals in learni...

Fantastic covering of @pedrolopes.org 's lab!! news.wttw.com/2025/01/28/u...

I am very much looking forward to visiting UIUC and sharing our research in their HCI seminar tomorrow!
publish.illinois.edu/hci-talks/