CS547 Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (Seminar on People, Computers, and Design)
Fridays 12:30-1:50 · Gates B01 · Open to the public
Debby Hindus Interval Research CorporationThe Importance of Homes in Technology Research
January 14, 2000
In this talk, I will argus for the importance of home-related
research on technology. Several important differences between
researching homes and researching workplaces are described, and
several issues in conducting home-related research are discussed
in the context of specific research efforts. Ways to advance
home-related research as a discipline are presented, including
an existing course on technology design with a home focus.
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Debby Hindus has been a Member of the Research Staff at Interval Research Corporation
in Palo Alto, CA, since 1992. Her current research interests
include broadband applications in the home and wireless techologies.
Ms. Hindus has co-authored several studies of novel communications
technology for workplaces and homes. In 1999, Ms. Hindus taught
a new Stanford course on The
Design of Domestic and Consumer Technologies.. Earlier research
addressed a new kind of computer-mediated communication, the
audio space, and the design of user interactions within an audio
space. Ms. Hindus holds an MS degree from the MIT Media Lab and
a BSCS degree from the University of Michigan. While in the Media
Labs Speech Research group, her work focused on innovative
speech applications for interacting with computers.
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