Eye-Hand Symbiosis

Time
10:00 AM, July 2, 2026 (Denmark Time)
4:00 PM, July 2, 2026 (Beijing Time)
Contact Us
Email: ecjournal@sciexplor.com
Speaker
Prof. Ken Pfeuffer
Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
Ken Pfeuffer is a researcher, designer, and professor in future user interfaces at Aarhus University, where he is leading the Extended Interaction group that specializes in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Spatial Computing for Extended Reality (XR). He has published over 75 scientific papers and received awards at ACM CHI, UIST, and SUI, including the ACM SIGCHI Special Recognition Award (2025). He is affiliated with the AI Danish Pioneer Center and COGAIN and is regularly in program committees for HCI and XR research conferences and journals. He earned his PhD from Lancaster University (UK), completed a postdoc at Bundeswehr University (Germany), and interned at Microsoft and Google Research US. He has pioneered interaction paradigms such as Gaze+Pinch and Direct-Indirect gestures, shaping 3D interfaces in emerging spatial computing technology.
Introduction
Our eyes continuously reveal what we attend to and intend to do, yet most user interfaces today are still fundamentally controlled through the hands — from the mouse and touchscreen to spatial interaction. Eye-hand symbiosis offers a new paradigm in which the eyes indicate attention and intent, while the hands provide confirmation and manipulation. This has the potential to advance not only XR interaction, but digital interfaces more broadly by augmenting many existing hand-driven interactions. The shift is already becoming visible in XR, where eye-hand spatial interfaces are increasingly emerging as the new standard in devices and platforms from Apple, Google, and Samsung. In this talk, I will reflect on recent scientific and industrial progress in eye-hand interaction and discuss future directions for how eye-hand symbiosis may shape the next generation of human-computer interaction.