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Thursday | Mid-Morning | 11:30—12:50
n inviTeD TALK | BALLRoom D
inTeRAcTion science in The AGe of mAKeRs
AnD insTRucTABLes
Stuart Card, Stanford University, USA
Human-Computer Interaction now is almost a different discipline than
at the time of the first CHI conference. The field has moved from
command-line interfaces for time-sharing to gesture interfaces for
brain wave sleep monitors on your telephone. As Hal Varian has
pointed out, we are in one of those unusual combinatorial periods in
history where technology offers us a rich set of recombinable
components that have been perfected but not yet incorporated into
the fabric of society. Furthermore, significant innovations can now be
done by smaller teams at more rapid rates and lower cost than
before. In fact, the technology has allowed the rise of a digital culture
of DIY hobbyists, exemplified by the Maker, Instructables, and
Quantified Self Movements, who emphasize exploring the newly
possible and just-in-time self-education, There are at least two
interesting implications for HCI, I think. First is that we are in a new
golden age for HCI, like the heady days when the GUI was being
invented. New I/O devices are needed, new major interaction
paradigms are possible, and CHI conferences should become more
interesting. Second, the state of current technology and the spirit of
the Maker Movement suggest a means for making progress on one
of HCI’s oldest structural problems: how to ground the field,
accelerate its progress, and make it cumulative by fashioning theories
and incorporating them into practice. It is this latter point on which I
wish to dwell. In this talk, I will attempt to sketch out, in the spirit of
the times, what an interaction science for HCI could look like, how it
might be incorporated into practice, and how it might be taught.
About Stuart Card: Stuart Card works on the theory and design of
human machine systems. Until his retirement, he was a Senior
Research Fellow at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and head of
its User Interface Research group. His study of input devices led to
the Fitts’s Law characterization of the mouse and was a major factor
leading to the mouse’s commercial introduction by Xerox. His group
developed theoretical characterizations of human-machine
interaction, including the Model Human Processor, the GOMS
theory of user interaction, information foraging theory, theories of
the sensemaking process of knowledge aggregation, developments
in information visualization, and statistical characterizations of
Internet use. The work of his group has resulted in a dozen Xerox
products and contributed to the founding of three software
companies. Card is a member of the National Academy of
Engineering and the recipient of the 2007 Bower Award and Prize for
Achievement in Science for fundamental contributions of the fields
of human-computer interaction and information visualization. He is
an ACM Fellow, the recipient of the ACM Computer-Human
Interaction Lifetime Achievement Award, IEEE VGTC Visualization
Career Award, and a member of the CHI-Academy. Card received an
A.B. degree in physics from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. degree in
psychology from Carnegie Mellon University. He holds 50 patents
and has published 90 papers and three books. He is presently a
Consulting Professor in the Computer Science Dept. at Stanford
University.
94 | ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
n TechnicAL PResenTATions | BALLRoom e
BiGGeR is BeTTeR: LARGe AnD muLTiPLe
DisPLAy enviRonmenTs
session chAiR: David Dearman, Nokia Research Center, USA
Tochi | xice Windowing Toolkit: seamless Display
Annexation
Richard Arthur, Dan Olsen, Brigham Young University
Presents a vision for safer, flexible, ubiquitous nomadic computing.
Demonstrates a resource-efficient approach to annexing screens
in the environment. The next level of mobile computing.
PAPeR | Reticularspaces: Activity-Based computing
support for Physically Distributed and collaborative
smart spaces
Jakob Bardram, Sofiane Gueddana, Steven Houben,
Søren Nielsen, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
ReticularSpaces extends smart spaces technology with Activity-
Based Computing. It offers a unified user interface across multiple
displays designed to support complex information management,
collaboration and mobility.
PAPeR | Regional undo/Redo Techniques for Large
interactive surfaces
Thomas Seifried, Christian Rendl, Michael Haller, Media
Interaction Lab, Austria
Stacey Scott, University of Waterloo, Canada
Explores the problem of undo/redo techniques on large
interactive surfaces in co-located collaborative work. Provides
interaction designers with design recommendations for regional
undo/redo techniques.
PAPeR | Tangible Remote controllers for Wall-size
Displays
Yvonne Jansen, Pierre Dragicevic, Jean-Daniel Fekete, INRIA,
France
Describes customizable tangible remote controllers to interact
with wall-size displays. Results from a controlled user study
support their eyes-free use for visual exploration tasks.