User System Interface CSC 8570001

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User System InterfaceCSC 8570-001

• Fall 2006
• Instructor Robert E. Beck

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Introductions (1)

• Information sheet
• Questions
• Who invented the computer mouse? When? Where?
• What battery operated devices do you have with
  you tonight?
• What (computer-based) POS systems do you
  typically encounter as a customer in a standard
  week?
• If you went west on US 30, which is Lancaster
  Avenue in front of Villanova, until it (US 30)
  ended, where would you be?

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Introductions (2)

• Name
• If working
• For what company?
• In what capacity?
• Describe the user interface of the first computer
  you used.

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Goals

• Developing design principles
• Investigating models and theories
• Creating evaluation processes
• Experimentation
• Opinion
• Outlining an effective design processinterface
  engineering
• Proposing interface designs

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Themes (1)

• Hierarchy of design principles
• Models
• Theories (or theory)
• Awareness
• Mental models
• Common interactions
• Microsoft vs. others
• General knowledge

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Themes (2)

• Multidisciplinary approach
• Frontiers of HCI
• Definitions, use of words
• Examples

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Strategies (Ways of Knowing)

• Create concept maps for reading assignments
• Combine individual maps
• Slip-of-paper (SOP) questions and surveys
• Summarize results
• Lectures, sometimes
• Discussion, always
• Argumentation, when appropriate

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Strategies (2)

• Examples
• Careful text reading

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Hot TopicsBurning Questions

• Time for your thoughts
• Pair up by twos
• For the next few minutes, write down as many
  issues or problems in user-system interaction as
  you can.

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Issue Summary

• How do we do this?

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Issues

• CHI 2006 topics

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Hot Areas Burning IssuesThe List

• Usability testing
• Universal usability
• Public access
• Visual interfaces
• New interaction modes, e.g. gesture-based
  interaction
• Tiny interfaces
• Intelligent interfaces
• POS systems
• Mapping systems

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The Future of HCI

• Take a few minutes to read John Cannys
  introduction to the July/August 2006 issue of
  HCI.
• Do Cannys views match our ideas?
• What did he miss?
• What did we miss?

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Research Topics

• Email archive management
• HCI in biodiversity informatics (as an example of
  focused HCI issues)
• Exploratory search interfaces
• Eliminating computer rage

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Sources

• Conference proceedings
• The Webbut be careful
• The course web site
• University HCI labs, e.g.
• U of Maryland www.cs.umd.edu/hcil

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Contacts

• PhiCHI Philadelphia region chapter of SIGCHI
• SIGCHI ACM Special Interest Group on Computer
  Human Interaction

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Conferences

• ACE Computer Entertainment Technology
• AVI Advanced Visual Interfaces
• CHI Computer Human Interaction
• CSCW Computer Supported Cooperative Work
• DSV-IS
• HCI International
• HCIL Symposium (U Maryland)
• HICS
• Hypertext

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Conferences (2)

• IDC
• Interact
• IUI Intelligent User Interfaces
• IVA
• SG Smart Graphics
• SIGIR Information Retrieval
• UIST User Interface Software Technology
• User Modeling
• World Wide Web

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Tools

• Concept maps
• http//cmap.ihmc.us
• EndNote
• Task models
• ConcurTaskTrees Environment
• Help compiler
• Treemap
• http//www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemaps/

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Activities

• Research project
• Report
• Presentation
• Poster
• Article presentation
• Web-based project
• Exercises
• Experiments
• Exam

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Responsibilities

• Attendance
• Reading
• Team support
• Dialog with classmates and instructor

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Handouts

• John Canny, The Future of HCI, from HCI, 4(2006),
  July/August

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Next Time

• Read Carroll, MTF, Chapter 2
• Identify design principles included in Chapter 2
• Find examples of interfaces that follow and that
  violate each principle you find.

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The Players

• User
• System
• Interface
• Designer