Guest Speaker: Adobe Senior Research Scientist Rubaiat Habib

• How can we make animation as easy as sketching?
• How can we create dynamic contents in real-time, in the speed of thought?
• How will dynamic graphics shape our real-time communications and language?

 
This discussion about animation, storytelling and design will reference the speaker's role in the design of Sketchbook Motion, named "Best iPad App" for 2016 by Apple.
 
Most of us experience the power of animated media every day: animation makes it easy to communicate complex ideas beyond verbal language. However, few of us have the skills to express ourselves through this medium. By making animation as easy, accessible and fluid as sketching, the intention is to make dynamic drawings a powerful medium to think, create and communicate rapidly.

About the Speaker
Adobe Senior Research Scientist Rubaiat Habib works at the intersection of HCI (AR/VR, gestures, and sketching) and graphics for creative thinking, design, art and storytelling. His research in animation and dynamic drawings are turned into new products that reach a global audience, including Sketchbook Motion, named "Best iPad App of 2016" by Apple. To communicate the role visual communication can play in science, Habib wrote his PhD thesis in the form of comics.

Prior to Adobe, Habib worked at Autodesk Research, Microsoft Research, and Japan Science and Technology Agency. He completed his PhD at National University of Singapore (2014) and BSc from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (2007). Habib has received two ACM CHI Best Paper Nominations, ACM CHI and ACM UIST Peoples’ choice Best Talk awards, ACM CHI Golden Mouse awards for best research videos, and Microsoft Research Asia PhD fellowship.

This talk is part of the ATLAS Seminar series—weekly talks on topics related to ATLAS' mission. Upcoming speakers are detailed here. You may. view this event by joining the Zoom meeting or watching the livestream on YouTube.