John Underkoffler | Interaction Design

John Underkoffler is a user-interface designer and computer scientist. His work insists that capabilities critical to humans living in a digital world can come only from careful evolution of the human-machine interface (HMI). He is co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles–based Oblong Industries, whose products and technologies embody this idea to offer new forms of computation. Underkoffler’s foundational work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology included innovations in optical and electronic holography, large-scale interactive visualization techniques, and the I/O Bulb and Luminous Room systems. He has been science and technology advisor to such films as Minority Report, Hulk,Aeon Flux, and Iron Man. Underkoffler is active on several boards, including the Cranbrook Academy of Art’s National Advisory Council. He holds a PhD from the MIT Media Lab.