Day 14 Notes
Nov. 28, 2001
1. On-minute papers
zooming
Reps and mechs
Preserving web history
How do we reconceptualize reps and mechs?
If ZUI not good for text, what alternatives might we have to scroll & jump?
How to map mechs to reps and reps to tasks?
How to balance empiricism and build it approaches to design
Is there a web administrator career path (ala database administrator?)
Do the current tools and interfaces make us more efficient? And should task optimization be the driving goal?
2. Tours
Jennifer
Lisa
3. Location aware devices (Want & Schilit)
context as cue….location to code actions (all clicks are not equal)
goal to route calls leads to more general applications
technology catching up with ideas revisited (hypertext, word processing, mobile/ubiquitous)
4. Calm computing (from ubiquitous to calm) Weiser
transition from centralized (M:1) to PC (1:1) to Internet (mixed), to ubiquitous M:M
UC “lots of computers sharing each of us” intelligent appliances, sensors
Technology in the periphery (infrastructure)—“enhanced peripheral reach increases our knowledge and ability to act, without increasing info overload”
Multicast and peer to peer as new ‘windows’ on cyberspace….”offer but not demand”—calm!
5. Interaction design (Winograd)
computation to communications (email and IM rather than DLs)
machinery to habitat & aliens to agents (environment, ubiquity, from AI to shared intelligence)
Interaction design: a new profession—one foot in tech and one in human concerns. (web page design as something to interact with rather than something to look at)
Where does information fit?
semester. It seems obvious that we want to have a designer kit that has different reps and different mechanisms and a challenge of design is how to map reps to tasks/problems and then map these reps to appropriate mechanisms. It seems obvious that these mappings must be used in concert, as sets (e.g., metaphors for the entire interface or an interaction style rather than a hodge-podge of cool techniques). These mappings are constrained by technical environments (e.g., WWW and Java libraries), but more importantly by user expectations, and the installed base of styles. Imagine we want to identify a small set of actions people want to take on information resources. What goes on the list?
6. Open Video Project Case
BLC history (a sharium)
The OV repository as production system
The interface research
Agile views
Surrogates for video
7. One-minute paper
What was the big point you learned in class today?
What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?