HCI Seminar 310-89
Day 9 Notes
11/8/99

ASIS briefing
This morning’s N&O section on VR
Top 10 interfaces of century

1. One-minute paper debriefing  (none last week)
Big Points: Questions:

2. LC Case study
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/ndl/

3. See thru tools
2-handed input: Why not in general use?
Trends: from trademarks/patents to Open Source
From transparent tools (interactors) to augmented surfaces (displays) to augmented reality

4. Physiological data: eye tracking
Hutchinson et al: focus on prostethics; importance of communications; iterative design
Jacob:  focus on supplemental input device; managing and interpreting data; use an a priori model to filter out noise; dwell time vs mouse selection; “observations” rather than empirical results

IDL equipment and progress to date.  Our goal to study info processing behavior

Study Outline assignment (due Nov 22)

5. One-minute paper
What was the big point you learned in class today?
What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?