Senior Principal Research Scientist, Tovi Grossman, recently welcomed Jarrod Knibbe to the User Interface Research Group. Jarrod will be working with us as a research intern for the summer. He is a PhD student at the University of Bristol, UK. You can learn more about Jarrod and his work from his http://big.cs.bris.ac.uk/people/knibbe - personal homepage , including his SensaBubble project which was just published at the ACM CHI conference and recently made a guest appearance on Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet. Check it out:

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I can certainy imagine filling bubbles with different scents and launching them in the directions of rooms where I want to create specific moods. Imagine replacing doorbells with bubbles whose scent lets the hearing impaired know when someone is at the front door.

Bubbles are alive in the lab.