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Understanding mobile AR/MR linkage with earlier media and media forms can help us to design more effective interactions.

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By Joe Lamantia "With almost daily announcements about new AR applications, products, services, companies, and tools, the pace of innovation in augmented reality is torrid." While ubiquitous computing remains an unpleasant mouthful of techno-babble to most people who know the term, and everyware is still an essentially unknown idea, the visibility of augmented reality has surged in the last twelve months.

User interfaces define the ways in which we interact with computers, and, increasingly, with each other. The research performed by Columbia's Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Lab addresses the design and development of effective 2D and 3D user interfaces for a broad range of domains and devices.

Add this massive infographic to the recent discussion of futuristic dorms and what education will look like in 2020--and beyond. Designed by Michell Zappa's Envisioning Technology (which also created that fantastic interactive infographic mapping the future of technology), this chart maps innovations in education technology for the next few decades.

The overall aim of the hapTEL™ project is to design, develop and evaluate a virtual learning system which includes haptic and synthetic devices. Haptics is the study of human touch and interaction with the external environment via touch.