HCI Seminar 310-89

Day 2 Notes

8/28/00

 

Syllabus and links to class notes available at:

 http://ils.unc.edu/~march/courses/310_f00/syllabus.html

 

  1. One Minute Papers

 

Main Points

Interaction definitions

Course intro stuff

 

Questions

Scale/scope of HCI—full sensory or limited to vision or other components of intelligence ?

How to separate retrieval from interface design; role of interface in findability?

What is the role of attention in design?

Do we learn/accept a definition of interaction or develop/grow/adopt one?

Why is VR not necessarily interaction?

How important is it to understand your users’ conception of interaction?

What to do as a project!

What are the long-term goals of the IDL?

How do info buckets interact with one another?

How to tackle open information and open source as a model?

Where is this class going?  Why this route?

 

  1. Discuss Shackel: our data show dip in document growth in early 90s

Agree with his point of view on hypertext (discrete, linked chunks good for manuals, reference but not scientific papers, essays, etc.)?

What do you think about his suggestion that smartcard will play roles in future HCI?

 

  1. Discuss Engelbart:  see process hierarchies slides (G drives)

 

  1. Interaction exercise & discussion

 

5. Interface tour 1. VR walkthrough http://www.stoa.org/metis/

http://www.attalos.com/excavate/1999/pictures.html

see the agora excavations

 

6. One-minute paper

What was the big point you learned in class today?

What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?