HCI Seminar 818

Day 3 Notes

9/5/07

1.         Guest speaker:  Elizabeth Evans:  Gaming and Learning

2.         Project teams:

3.         Input/Output reading: how have things changed?

4.         I/O tech report

Human Input to Cyberspace

            Jacob et al perspective and agenda

            Mappings from physical to informational

            Interaction Styles

                        Explicit

                                    Keyboard, mouse/pointer, (touchpads, stylus)

                                    Speech/sound

                                    Gesture

                                    Gaze

                                    Other (thought??)

                        Implicit

                                    Biometrics and sensors on/in body

                                    Sensors in the environment

            Multiple Inputs:  coordinated vs independent

            Psychological and Social Effects

                        Fatigue, addiction, interruption

            Summary/Conclusion

            References

5. Assignment: use open-video.org to find three videos (try the ACM SIGCHI or HCIL videos) that present novel input devices or techniques. Submit the titles for the videos; a one paragraph description of how you found them (your search strategy); and a one paragraph suggestion for improving the OV system. Due Next Wednesday (Sept 12).

Readings/viewings for next meeting:

Marchionini, Geisler, & Brunk http://ils.unc.edu/~march/agileviews/Agileviews.pdf

Overviews and previews: read Greene et al. http://ils.unc.edu/~march/jasis_ovpv.pdf  (also ASIST online w/o color)

Dynamic queries: Ahlberg, C. and Shneiderman, B. (1994). Visual Information Seeking: Tight coupling of dynamic query filters with starfield displays , In Proc. of ACM CHI94, 313-317.

View Filmfinder (HCIL 2000 video)http://open-video.org/details.php?videoid=708

Zyda: creating a science of games (CACM special issue, July 2007) Zyda, M. 2007. Introduction. Commun. ACM 50, 7 (Jul. 2007), 26-29. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1272516.1272535

6. One-minute paper 

What was the big point you learned in class today?

What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?