I am very happy to participate in this year’s Interaction Symposium. I saw a lot of excellent works and also learned from different developers about different ways of thinking in the field of HCI. The following is my summary of the symposium this time.
Many of the works presented made me feel the breakthrough of interaction ways, and also made me understand the importance of exploring different interaction ways. I used to think about new interaction methods from the perspective of practicality and problem solving all the time, by that way, my thinking has been limited to existing interaction methods and problems, at the same time I used to do not understand the significance of some new interaction methods that cannot be directly applied. Through these days’ study, I realized the importance of breaking through new interaction methods, and that the research on interaction methods should not be limited to the expansion and enhancement of the existing methods, but needs to explore the possibilities in all aspects, no matter it can be used right now or not. Meanwhile, i kind of understand the difference between research in HCI and regular develop in HCI. The main purpose about research in HCI is to provide the novel ideas and technologies and see what it could be used in the future, it’s about showing the unlimited possibilities no matter how uncanny it is. This field is full of imagination and innovation.

Some of the works in this symposium cleverly utilize the physical properties of different substances as a medium for interaction, such as ice, iron power or screen windows.

In the terms of gesture interaction, different developers have proposed multifaceted interaction methods from different perspectives. Utilizing existing systems to recognize and learn gestures allows non-signers to communicate with signers. Utilizing gesture information for expansion. Or to solve the problem of improving the experience of practical interaction in virtual space etc.

Through conversations with different developers, we all explored and researched in different directions in which we are interested, and I was also very happy to learn from them many different ways of thinking, as well as many different development mediums and technologies.
I am very happy to have this opportunity to visit the symposium, happy happy happy ^^.