February will be the first to encounter QB1, a computer which alters
the fundamentals of human-machine interaction – the fruit of an
ambitious cooperation between engineering and design.
Although great progress has been made on the keyboard, monitor and
mouse in recent decades, it is always the user who must go to the
computer and adjust to the machine's environment. Engineer and
designers are determined to reverse the process. They have started
designing machines able to identify their user, put forward choices
and perform services. A lab prototype – named Wizkid – had a first
outing in February 2008 on the occasion of the "Design and the Elastic
Mind" exhibition at the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). This
coming week, LIFT will display a much more sophisticated computer
called QB1. working within the EPFL CRAFT Laboratory, applied the
findings of his academic and industrial research in the field of
advanced interfaces, combining robotics and artificial intelligence.
Engineer contributing his joint experience as industrial designer and
lecturer at Ecal, created the machine's formal language to enhance its
new status in relations with humans.
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