Anchit Mishra
Trying to spend more time building houses and less time painting walls.
I am a PhD student at the University of Waterloo, working in Human-Computer Interaction under the supervision of Profs. Matthew Brehmer, Oliver Schneider, and Daniel Vogel. My work explores the intersection of information visualization and haptic computing, using both information channels to enable multimodal interactions with all sorts of devices, including laptops, mobile devices, tablets and even VR/AR devices. This work often involves the use of techniques from machine learning, computer graphics, and haptics, along with both qualitative and quantitative empirical research and analysis methods common in HCI.
As computers become increasingly diverse in form-factor and people work with each other despite differences in preference, access to technology, and even timezones, why limit ourselves to just using passive screens?
Moreover, as visualizations become increasingly complex and rich, why don’t we engage other senses to offload what is typically entirely visual information processing?
Outside of research, I enjoy playing around with rendering techniques, physics-based animation and other, more general visualizations. I’m also a big math-head, and like to solve problems in combinatorics, probability and algebra.
My other interests include running/lifting, playing video games, playing the piano and listening to jazz, hip-hop and R&B music.