Roel Vertegaal receives award from CFI
November 17th, 2007
Roel Vertegaal, Nectar Researcher and Associate Professor of Human- Computer Interaction at Queen’s University’s prestigious Human Media Laboratory received $397,773 from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) Leaders Opportunities Fund. The funds will be used towards expanding the Human Media Lab. This expansion will facilitate Dr. Vertegaal’s research program into advanced input and display techniques for organic user interface technologies, which include interfaces for paper, rubber and foldable computers. The award is part of a $28-million package to support 193 researchers working at 35 institutions across Canada.
“This award allows us to initiate new research in one of the most exciting areas of development in computing interfaces today,” says Roel Vertegaal, “It will allows us to develop completely flexible computers, computers that can have any shape or form, based on new display technologies such as e-ink, and new flexible circuit board substrates for displays.”
“CFI has provided us with an excellent mechanism for attracting top- flight researchers through their Leaders Opportunity Fund,” says Vice- Principal (Research) Kerry Rowe of Queen’s University. “The results of this competition will enable Queen’s researchers to acquire the equipment and infrastructure required to do world-class research.”
In announcing the new funding, CFI president and CEO Eliot Phillipson said: “Access to modern, cutting-edge equipment and facilities is imperative to research in the 21st century. Over the past decade, the CFI has provided thousands of world-class researchers with the tools they need to do their work. Without the infrastructure, they quite simply wouldn’t be in Canada.”
CFI’s Leaders Opportunity Fund program, created in 2006, was designed to give Canadian universities the flexibility to both attract and retain the very best researchers, at a time of intense international competition for leading faculty
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