Written by Jaelyn Molyneux, BA’05
In the 17th century, William Shakespeare wrote, “All the world’s a stage.” In the 21st century, all the world is a computer. Or, at least, it will be.
Dr. Ryo Suzuki, PhD, leads the Programmable Reality Lab at the University of Calgary. It’s one of eight labs that form the large and collaborative Interactions Lab within the Department of Computer Science where researchers are exploring human-computer interactions and information-visualization.
For its part, the Programmable Reality Lab is exploring how to combine the physical and digital world so that they interact with each other. Instead of holding a computer in your hand or having one on your desktop, the computer is all around us. Our entire environment is dynamic. Sound intense and maybe a little scary but it doesn’t have to be.
