Chris Harrison
Associate Professor
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Campus Address
407 S. Craig Street, Room 216
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Chris directs the Future Interfaces Group, which broadly investigates novel sensing technologies and interaction techniques that foster powerful and natural interactions between humans and computers. These efforts often lie in emerging use modalities, such as mobile computing, touch interfaces and gestural interaction. Harrison was recently named as one of the top 30 scientists under 30 by Forbes, a top 35 innovator under 35 by MIT Technology Review, and one of six innovators to watch in 2013 by Smithsonian. He has been awarded fellowships by Google, Microsoft Research and Qualcomm.
Research Interests
Input and output devices, interaction techniques, interface design, haptics, ubiquitous computing
In the News
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![Vivian facilitating a demo at UIST 2023. [This image is from the official ACM UIST photo album]](/sites/default/files/styles/person_profile_image_600x400/public/2024-04/UIST-demo.jpg.webp?itok=LQUjuJMT)
HCII at UIST 2023
The 2023 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) was held in San Francisco, California from October 29 to November ...
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Harrison Earns Lasting Impact Award for Turning Everyday Surfaces Into Touch Screens
Good technology takes time to get right. When widespread use of touch screens skyrocketed around 2007, for example, the research had been ...
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Spooky SCS: A Round-Up of Chilling Research
Mutant cats, troll hunting and walking through spiderwebs in a haunted forest — some work in the School of Computer Science is downright s...
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Over the Lips, Through the Gums, Look Out Gamers, Here It Comes — Or So It Seems
Lips are famously sensual but, together with the gums and tongue, they are also surprisingly sensitive, second only to the fingertips in n...