CS547 Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (Seminar on People, Computers, and Design)
Fridays 12:30-1:50 · Gates B01 · Open to the public- 20 years of speakers
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James D. Hollan
Computer Science Department, University of New Mexico Towards A New View of Information: History-Enriched Digital Objects and Dynamic Work Materials May 23, 1997
The future promises an ever richer world of computationally-based work materials that exploit task representations, semantic relationships explicit and implicit in information and our interactions with it, and user-specified tailorings to provide effective, enjoyable, and beautiful places to work. One of the barriers to achieving this vision is that most current user interfaces employ computation primarily to mimic mechanisms of older media. While there are important cognitive, cultural, and engineering reasons to exploit earlier successful representations, imitating the mechanisms of an old medium strains and underutilizes the new. For quite some time I have been involved in a research enterprise to look beyond imitation as the fundamental strategy of interface design. This has led to an investigation of:
In this talk I give an overview of this work and argue that there is evidence for the beginnings of a paradigm shift for thinking about information, one that starts to view information as being much more dynamic and reactive to the nature of our tasks, activities, and even relationships with others. |
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