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Today CSE 510 ! Why study HCI Human-Computer Interaction ! Topic overview ! Introduction of instructors ! Course mechanics Richard Anderson (UW CSE) ! Project Ken Fishkin (Intel Research) January 6, 2003 CSE 510 - Winter 2003 2 Technology is only as good as its Why Study HCI? interface ! Ferrari Enzo. ! Computers are awesome tools ! Goes 200 MPH ! BUT… ! Costs $2 Million ! But, takes trained technician “five helpers, a dozen timber ramps, and countless 20-point turns” to park. Source: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/10/16/1034561211585.html January 6, 2003 CSE 510 - Winter 2003 3 January 6, 2003 CSE 510 - Winter 2003 4 Bad HCI Can Turn Good Data Bad HCI Can Turn Good Bad Technology Bad. January 6, 2003 CSE 510 - Winter 2003 5 January 6, 2003 CSE 510 - Winter 2003 6 1

(1) creating new tools based on current HCI Manifesto or proposed new technology (bottom-up) ! HCI is devoted to improving the ! Computers are or will be {smaller, interface between human and computer faster, cheaper, store more, network more, have displays, …. }. That will ! Five ways this has been done enable ….. ! Many of Vannevar Bush’s visions are of this form (reading for next week) January 6, 2003 CSE 510 - Winter 2003 7 January 6, 2003 CSE 510 - Winter 2003 8 (2) envisioning new tools, and working (3) repurposing, or extending, an backwards from that to needed new existing artifact (sideways). technology (top-down) ! Examples: Kay’s Dynabook vision, Engelbart’s knowledge augmentation, Bush’s memex ! Next week January 6, 2003 CSE 510 - Winter 2003 9 January 6, 2003 CSE 510 - Winter 2003 10 (5) Understanding users and (4) Evaluating/Comparing their tasks interfaces ! Are mice a good idea? ! Ethnography ! How many buttons should they have? ! Participatory design Should those be chorded? ! Design experiments ! How big should they be? ! Consider the user ! Go beyond “tis-tisn’t” arguments – do and the task – not just the technology real science. ! Regrettably, often ignored – e.g. making hyperlinks blue. January 6, 2003 CSE 510 - Winter 2003 11 January 6, 2003 CSE 510 - Winter 2003 12 2

A Digression This Course ! Why is HCI so ! This is not a survey course - HCI is too separated from big ! HAI – Human-Auto interface design ! Instead, we will focus on 4 themes ! HBI – Human-Building interface design ! Berkeley spends a semester on one of ! HCI – Human-Clothing these themes interface design ! HFI – Human-Furniture ! we will take “day trips” out from them as interface design appropriate ! Time permitting, we will revisit this later. ! Guest lecturers aplenty From: http://mediax.stanford.edu/documents/MediaX_v2.pdf January 6, 2003 CSE 510 - Winter 2003 13 January 6, 2003 CSE 510 - Winter 2003 14 Theme 1 – Visualization Theme 2 – Physical UI ! There is an immense (and ever- ! Most of the world is not a desktop PC. growing) amount of data in the world. What about HCI in the physical world? ! How do you display it? How do you ! Tangible UI (repurposing) make sense of it? How do you query it? ! Augmented Reality/Wearables How do you do this in a world-wide ! Ubicomp (Star Trek doors) way? January 6, 2003 CSE 510 - Winter 2003 15 January 6, 2003 CSE 510 - Winter 2003 16 Theme 3 – Educational Theme 4 – Pen Computing Technology ! Use of technology to ! Stylus based input support education ! Handwriting ! Multimedia recognition ! Use of archival ! Form factor and materials mobility ! Video conferencing ! Feedback systems ! Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) January 6, 2003 CSE 510 - Winter 2003 17 January 6, 2003 CSE 510 - Winter 2003 18 3

Instructors Richard Anderson ! Richard Anderson ! Background in theory of algorithms ! UW CSE (Since 1986) ! Working on Educational Technology for ! Current research emphasis the last six years ! Educational Technology ! PMP/Distance education ! Ken Fishkin ! Tutored Video Instruction ! Intel Research (Since 2002) ! Microsoft Distributed Classroom ! Previously at Xerox PARC, Pixar, SoftBook ! Current research emphasis ! Physical UI: Ubicomp for Alzheimer’s January 6, 2003 CSE 510 - Winter 2003 19 January 6, 2003 CSE 510 - Winter 2003 20 Richard Anderson Ken Fishkin ! Background in UI, 2D Computer Graphics ! Microsoft Research, Learning Sciences and ! UI focus on tangible UI Technology group ! How small and unobtrusive can a wearable system ! Sabbatical: 6/01 – 9/02 be? (work done w/Kurt Partridge and Saurav ! Developed and deployed Chatterjee of UW). Presenter ! What if we added {tilting, shaking, squeezing, ! Other interests etc.} to the gesture set we use in HCI? ! Computer Science ! What if we added { books, posters, photos, Education fountains, etc., etc.} to the object set we use in ! International Education HCI? January 6, 2003 CSE 510 - Winter 2003 21 January 6, 2003 CSE 510 - Winter 2003 22 Ken Fishkin Course mechanics ! IRS – using Ubicomp to aid people with ! Syllabus, slides, readings, etc. Alzheimer’s and their caregivers ! www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/510/ ! SoftBook – eBook startup. Bought by TV ! Workload Guide. Don’t get me started…. ! Readings, short assignments, project ! Xerox PARC – UI work from previous slide ! Office hours ! Pixar – 2D graphics/color. Before they ! By appointment became a success. Yes, it was a great place ! anderson@cs.washington.edu to work. ! kfishkin@intel-research.net January 6, 2003 CSE 510 - Winter 2003 23 January 6, 2003 CSE 510 - Winter 2003 24 4

Project For Wednesday: ! Independent projects related to course ! We will investigate some great leaps in HCI. ! Readings: ! Implementation or user study or ! Vannevar Bush, “As We May Think”. literature based ! http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/computer/ ! One or two person projects bushf.htm ! (optional) Xerox PARC, “Personal Dynamic Media, ! Topics will be suggested in lectures http://seattleweb.intel- ! Details TBA research.net/people/fishkin/CSE510/files/personal _dynamic_media.pdf, only pages 3-8. January 6, 2003 CSE 510 - Winter 2003 25 January 6, 2003 CSE 510 - Winter 2003 26 5