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Third-year student Aisen Carolina Chacin delivers invited lecture at MIKK: Mladinski Informativni in Kulturni Klub Murska Sobota

Third-year student Aisen Carolina Chacin delivered an invited lecture to MIKK: Mladinski Informativni in Kulturni Klub Murska Sobota, held October 12, 2015 in Murska Sobota, Slovenia. Her lecture was on the subject of the results of her own research and the Ph.D. Program in Empowerment Informatics (EMP).

MIKK: Mladinski Informativni in Kulturni Klub in Murska Sobota, Slovenia invited me as a Guest Speaker on October 12, 2015. (link: Http://Www.Mikk.Si/?Q=novice/tokratnimikklabvznamenjupredavanjaAisencaroChacinterDelavniceSurroundedSound)

During this talk I presented the University of Tsukuba and the EMP Department, and spoke about the developments that we have been researching in our labs. I also talked about various works such as my master thesis, Sensory Pathways for the Plastic Mind, IrukaTact, and love at First Swab (link: http://loveatfirstswab.com) Which is a Collaborative Project that I’ve Been working on since the beginning of 2015 with Turkish Partners. It is a company that matches HLA Genes of 2 Potential Partners and lets them know there chemical compatibility. The audience also tested the new vestibular devices, and thought they were an interesting new interface.

Murska Sobota is a small town in Slovenia, located in the norther part of the country very close to Austria and Hungary. It was very good to meet people that are not always exposed to works in the field of HCI and I was very please to learn that most of my audience was inspired by my personal work as well as the aims of EMP.