The Bigger Picture for HCI, from Multiple Monitors to a Lifetime in one Take
An historical overview of HCI and where we may be going ..
'H is Human Scale and Human-Centred approaches to design...C is Cultural and Contextual areas...and I is for Interface and Interaction issues, which many would see as the 'core business' of HCI...'
So began the HCI 2005 conference, this year at Napier University in the care of Tom McEwan. At various times, the chant of 'Give me an H... give me a C..., give me an I. What does that spell?' broke out in places where McEwan was to be found, but for the opening session he kept to the sophisticated version and explained how the sessions had been themed to reflect the areas he saw as now key to our research. 'Together this I, C and H can be taken to symbolise the adult identity of HCI,' he said.
And then he handed over to Mary Czerwinski of Microsoft Research to talk about "The bigger picture for HCI", picking up the overall theme of the Edinburgh conference.
She spent much of the talk bringing the audience up to date with Microsoft's work on big and multiple displays – a very literal 'bigger picture'. People using larger displays are always significantly faster and more satisfied, she said. But new tools are needed to manage information displayed in this way: the taskbar becomes useless as more applications sit open on the display - with too many small boxes showing one letter: 'M for Microsoft'. She ran through innovations such as Wincuts, Scalable Fabric (downloadable from the link below) and Vibelogger, an analysis tool that explores how people are switching tasks by logging events across multiple monitors." continued ... (Via Usability News)
'H is Human Scale and Human-Centred approaches to design...C is Cultural and Contextual areas...and I is for Interface and Interaction issues, which many would see as the 'core business' of HCI...'
So began the HCI 2005 conference, this year at Napier University in the care of Tom McEwan. At various times, the chant of 'Give me an H... give me a C..., give me an I. What does that spell?' broke out in places where McEwan was to be found, but for the opening session he kept to the sophisticated version and explained how the sessions had been themed to reflect the areas he saw as now key to our research. 'Together this I, C and H can be taken to symbolise the adult identity of HCI,' he said.
And then he handed over to Mary Czerwinski of Microsoft Research to talk about "The bigger picture for HCI", picking up the overall theme of the Edinburgh conference.
She spent much of the talk bringing the audience up to date with Microsoft's work on big and multiple displays – a very literal 'bigger picture'. People using larger displays are always significantly faster and more satisfied, she said. But new tools are needed to manage information displayed in this way: the taskbar becomes useless as more applications sit open on the display - with too many small boxes showing one letter: 'M for Microsoft'. She ran through innovations such as Wincuts, Scalable Fabric (downloadable from the link below) and Vibelogger, an analysis tool that explores how people are switching tasks by logging events across multiple monitors." continued ... (Via Usability News)
Presentations from HCI 2005.
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