[Fwd: HCI Seminar: Rob Jacob, Friday, 2/28, 1:30PM]

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From: "Jaime B. Teevan" <teevan@ai.mit.edu>
Subject: HCI Seminar: Rob Jacob, Friday, 2/28, 1:30PM
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Elements of Next-Generation, Non-WIMP User Interfaces
 
Robert J.K. Jacob
Tufts University

February 28, 2003
1:30PM (refreshments at 1:15PM)
NE43-941

Abstract:

I will survey some of the qualities I see as likely to characterize the
next generation of emerging "non-WIMP" user interfaces. Rather than
trying
to predict specific future user interfaces, I am seeking to abstract
across a range of these interfaces to find general properties that they
will share, particularly those likely to affect how we build user
interface software in the future -- specifically: continuous input and
output, merged with discrete interaction; parallel interaction across
multiple modes; natural or "reality-based" interaction, particularly
including virtual reality and tangible media; natural interaction
augmented by artificial extensions; and lightweight, non-command,
passive
interactions, gleaning inputs from context and from physiological or
behavioral measures. I will also describe my experimental work on new
interaction techniques for eye movement-based interaction, tangible user
interfaces, and lightweight techniques for browsing in a digital
library,
as examples of some of these characteristics. Finally, while new, more
powerful interaction techniques and modes can make interfaces easier to
learn and use, they are becoming more difficult to describe and build. I
will discuss my work on developing new software models and abstractions
for specifying and implementing non-WIMP interfaces, aimed at the
problems
raised by continuous and parallel interaction.

Bio:

Robert Jacob is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Tufts
University, where his research interests are new interaction media and
techniques and user interface software. He was also a visiting professor
at the MIT Media Laboratory, in the Tangible Media Group, and continues
collaboration with that group. Before coming to Tufts, he was in the
Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the Naval Research Laboratory. He
received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, and he is currently
Vice-Chair of ACM SIGCHI and a member of the editorial board of ACM
Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction and was Papers Co-Chair of
the
CHI 2001 conference.

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