CS547 Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (Seminar on People, Computers, and Design)
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Jim Hollan
Department of Cognitive Science, UCSD Opportunities and Challenges for HCI Design and Research December 2, 2005 The miniaturization and increasing power of commodity computing devices makes possible wide-scale applications of computation. This presents enormous new challenges for design. Not only is the monolithic "computer" being unbundled into fragmentary, appliance-like components, but experience in constructing the first generation of applications reveals that we continue to have much to learn about designing systems such that they mesh with and improve real-world activities. As with many challenges there is also opportunity. The same forces leading to ubiquitous computing are also changing the nature and richness of data we can collect about human activities. In the history of science, the appearance of new technologies for collecting or analyzing data frequently has spawned rapid scientific advancement. The human genome project, for example, would have been unfathomably complex without automatic DNA sequencing technology. In the present case, a new generation of inexpensive digital video recording devices is revolutionizing data collection for studying human activity, extending it to situations that have not typically been accessible and enabling examination of the fine detail of action captured in meaningful settings. Drawing from current work with my students and collaborators on multiscale information visualization, personal information environments, negotiated sharing of personal information, embodied interaction and gesture, ethnography of freeway driving, paper-augmented digital documents, and vision-based tools to aid analysis of video data, as well as recent work of others, I characterize what I see as the major opportunities and challenges for HCI research. |
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