Matthew D. Dooris, Michael O. Moorman, Bryan Gregory, Marilyn Brown, Heather Wright
The capabilities of body-wearable computers (BWC) and modern audio equipment were compared in a micro-gravity environment. In the experiment carried out, the speed of performance on timed tasks was compared for BWC and the audio playback devices currently used by astronauts. The BWC provided faster performance times than audio equipment when used in a micro-gravity environment. In addition, the BWC was found to provide faster performance times in normal gravity than in zero gravity.
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Your intrepid SIGCHI reporters are recently returned from the east midlands area of the United Kingdom and are pleased to report good news from one of the frontiers of CHI research. The emerging area of research into creative thought and the implications of the use of computing technology in creative work is maturing and promises to increase its influence and visibility in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) during the coming years. Creativity and Cognition 1999, held 10-13 October at Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, is the third such conference in a series which have been held so far at three-year intervals. Recognition of the value of this conference and the work it showcases continues to grow and this third offering of the conference was a SIGCHI sponsored event with proceedings published by ACM. ~
{"title":"A trip report on creativity & cognition 1999: an insider's report on a far out conference","authors":"B. Shneiderman, T. Hewett","doi":"10.1145/333329.333343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/333329.333343","url":null,"abstract":"Your intrepid SIGCHI reporters are recently returned from the east midlands area of the United Kingdom and are pleased to report good news from one of the frontiers of CHI research. The emerging area of research into creative thought and the implications of the use of computing technology in creative work is maturing and promises to increase its influence and visibility in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) during the coming years. Creativity and Cognition 1999, held 10-13 October at Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, is the third such conference in a series which have been held so far at three-year intervals. Recognition of the value of this conference and the work it showcases continues to grow and this third offering of the conference was a SIGCHI sponsored event with proceedings published by ACM. ~","PeriodicalId":7397,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGCHI Bull.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83833444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
We attempt to explore the implications of the "3C convergence" (convergence of content, computers and communications) on the HCI research agenda. The interaction between humans and the 3C's is becoming a daily staple as we continue to witness powerful computers unite in a networked environment where wireline and wireless communications enjoy broadening bandwidths that permit the transmission of multimedia content. We draw illustrative examples from the Hong Kong environment related to the 3C convergence, and we present issues which we believe to be important for the research and development of a universal, useful and usable human-computer interface.
{"title":"HCI and the 3C convergence","authors":"H. Meng","doi":"10.1145/333329.333352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/333329.333352","url":null,"abstract":"We attempt to explore the implications of the \"3C convergence\" (convergence of content, computers and communications) on the HCI research agenda. The interaction between humans and the 3C's is becoming a daily staple as we continue to witness powerful computers unite in a networked environment where wireline and wireless communications enjoy broadening bandwidths that permit the transmission of multimedia content. We draw illustrative examples from the Hong Kong environment related to the 3C convergence, and we present issues which we believe to be important for the research and development of a universal, useful and usable human-computer interface.","PeriodicalId":7397,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGCHI Bull.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86931723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Various formats are being used for Web-based academic articles such as conference papers and journal papers. We surveyed the formats being used and tried to identify reading activities and the proper formats by carrying out two online surveys: an email-based survey with an email-based questionnaire and a Web-based survey with a Web-based questionnaire.The survey results show that readers overview Web-based academic articles from the screen, print them out and then read the printed articles. The results also show that the structural formats employed by most papers on the Web are against readers' preferences. The simple two-frame format was most preferred by 47% of the respondents as readers, but the cascade format of page windows was regarded as the worst by 65%. An interesting result is that 26% of the respondents selected as the worst style the paper-like format that is currently widely used for Web-based articles. Brief data sets and results are shown in this article.In addition, the importance of examples embedded in the Web-based questionnaire was shown by two consecutive surveys.
{"title":"Reading patterns and formats of academic articles on the Web","authors":"Y. Rho, Tom Gedeon","doi":"10.1145/333329.333348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/333329.333348","url":null,"abstract":"Various formats are being used for Web-based academic articles such as conference papers and journal papers. We surveyed the formats being used and tried to identify reading activities and the proper formats by carrying out two online surveys: an email-based survey with an email-based questionnaire and a Web-based survey with a Web-based questionnaire.The survey results show that readers overview Web-based academic articles from the screen, print them out and then read the printed articles. The results also show that the structural formats employed by most papers on the Web are against readers' preferences. The simple two-frame format was most preferred by 47% of the respondents as readers, but the cascade format of page windows was regarded as the worst by 65%. An interesting result is that 26% of the respondents selected as the worst style the paper-like format that is currently widely used for Web-based articles. Brief data sets and results are shown in this article.In addition, the importance of examples embedded in the Web-based questionnaire was shown by two consecutive surveys.","PeriodicalId":7397,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGCHI Bull.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88682591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The advancement of using the Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods and techniques in design Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) makes understanding them more difficult, so that teachers are less and less prepared to accept these systems. As a result, the gap between researchers in the field of ITSs and the educational community is constantly widening. While ITSs are becoming more common and proving to be increasingly effective, each one must still be built from scratch at a significant cost. Also present ITSs need quite big development environments, huge computing resources and, in consequence, are expensive and hardly portable to personal computers. This paper describes our efforts toward developing uniform data, explanation and control structures that can be used by a wide circle of authors who are involved in building ITSs (e.g., domain experts, teachers, curriculum developers, etc.) that is, the model of the ITSs framework, the GET-BITS model.
{"title":"The friendly intelligent tutoring environment","authors":"Ljubomir Jerinic, V. Devedzic","doi":"10.1145/333329.333353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/333329.333353","url":null,"abstract":"The advancement of using the Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods and techniques in design Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) makes understanding them more difficult, so that teachers are less and less prepared to accept these systems. As a result, the gap between researchers in the field of ITSs and the educational community is constantly widening. While ITSs are becoming more common and proving to be increasingly effective, each one must still be built from scratch at a significant cost. Also present ITSs need quite big development environments, huge computing resources and, in consequence, are expensive and hardly portable to personal computers. This paper describes our efforts toward developing uniform data, explanation and control structures that can be used by a wide circle of authors who are involved in building ITSs (e.g., domain experts, teachers, curriculum developers, etc.) that is, the model of the ITSs framework, the GET-BITS model.","PeriodicalId":7397,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGCHI Bull.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86345298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Teaching technical subjects in developing countries has proven to be a challenge. This is due to deficiencies in technology and knowledge resources, such as a lack of expertise in a field and a lack of up to date literature. These deficiencies have a major impact on the teaching of subjects such as HCI and CSCW, and have caused universities in developing countries to expand the scope of their teaching resources to form collaborations with other universities through distance leaning technology. This report will focus on experiences of a collaborative project between the University of the Witswatersrand (Wits) in South Africa and Staffordshire University (Staffs) in the UK. The aim of the project was to provide experiential knowledge of CSCW issues through establishing communication channels between the UK and South Africa.
{"title":"Teaching CSCW in developing countries through collaboration","authors":"A. Thatcher, L. Katz, D. Trepess","doi":"10.1145/333329.333347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/333329.333347","url":null,"abstract":"Teaching technical subjects in developing countries has proven to be a challenge. This is due to deficiencies in technology and knowledge resources, such as a lack of expertise in a field and a lack of up to date literature. These deficiencies have a major impact on the teaching of subjects such as HCI and CSCW, and have caused universities in developing countries to expand the scope of their teaching resources to form collaborations with other universities through distance leaning technology. This report will focus on experiences of a collaborative project between the University of the Witswatersrand (Wits) in South Africa and Staffordshire University (Staffs) in the UK. The aim of the project was to provide experiential knowledge of CSCW issues through establishing communication channels between the UK and South Africa.","PeriodicalId":7397,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGCHI Bull.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89364312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This report summarizes the results of a workshop on pattern languages for human-computer interaction which took place at the ChiliPLoP'99 Conference on Pattern Languages of Programming.It suggests a definition and taxonomy for interaction patterns, explains how Writers' Workshops are used to improve patterns, and points out some surprising issues about pattern languages as they are understood by key players in that field. It shows the importance of user interface and software engineering researchers to exchange their thoughts on this hot topic.
{"title":"CHI meets PLoP: an interaction patterns workshop","authors":"Jan O. Borchers","doi":"10.1145/333329.333330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/333329.333330","url":null,"abstract":"This report summarizes the results of a workshop on pattern languages for human-computer interaction which took place at the ChiliPLoP'99 Conference on Pattern Languages of Programming.It suggests a definition and taxonomy for interaction patterns, explains how Writers' Workshops are used to improve patterns, and points out some surprising issues about pattern languages as they are understood by key players in that field. It shows the importance of user interface and software engineering researchers to exchange their thoughts on this hot topic.","PeriodicalId":7397,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGCHI Bull.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80504282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Online shopping over the World-Wide Web has become a major commercial application in 1998 and volume is rapidly growing. At the same time usability of these sites is a serious problem as significant numbers of users (I/2 2/3, depending on study) fail to find what they are looking for. A number of HCI techniques, tools, and methods are used to design, realize, and evaluate new forms of interaction to address this problem. Electronic Product Catalog (EPC) Interfaces are an interesting application area for a wide range of HCI research, including human searching and browsing in complex hypermedia spaces, information visualization, virtual reality, agent support, user modeling, and group-oriented work such as recommender systems.
{"title":"CHI 99 SIG: user interfaces for electronic product catalogs","authors":"Jürgen Koenemann, M. Stolze","doi":"10.1145/339290.339301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/339290.339301","url":null,"abstract":"Online shopping over the World-Wide Web has become a major commercial application in 1998 and volume is rapidly growing. At the same time usability of these sites is a serious problem as significant numbers of users (I/2 2/3, depending on study) fail to find what they are looking for. A number of HCI techniques, tools, and methods are used to design, realize, and evaluate new forms of interaction to address this problem. Electronic Product Catalog (EPC) Interfaces are an interesting application area for a wide range of HCI research, including human searching and browsing in complex hypermedia spaces, information visualization, virtual reality, agent support, user modeling, and group-oriented work such as recommender systems.","PeriodicalId":7397,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGCHI Bull.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81074800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The phenomenon we call "programming" is not limited to regular professional programmers. Farthest away are end user programmers, who program just as a means to an end in their own professions. In between are people with very diverse backgrounds, general education, and programming knowledge. Like professional programmers, they write programs for others as their major job activity. Yet they also share characteristics of end user programmers, such as a strong specialization in one application area. All these "informal programmers" need more study and support to help them maximize their contributions.
{"title":"End user programming/informal programming","authors":"H. Goodell, S. Kuhn, D. Maulsby, Carol Traynor","doi":"10.1145/339290.339294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/339290.339294","url":null,"abstract":"The phenomenon we call \"programming\" is not limited to regular professional programmers. Farthest away are end user programmers, who program just as a means to an end in their own professions. In between are people with very diverse backgrounds, general education, and programming knowledge. Like professional programmers, they write programs for others as their major job activity. Yet they also share characteristics of end user programmers, such as a strong specialization in one application area. All these \"informal programmers\" need more study and support to help them maximize their contributions.","PeriodicalId":7397,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGCHI Bull.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85216389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The purpose of this CHI 99 Special Interest Group (SIG) session was to share lessons learned about using automated logging techniques to collect data for evaluating collaborative (multi-user) systems. Automated logging techniques are frequently used in evaluating the human-computer interaction of single-user systems. There has been much less experience in using logging techniques for evaluating collaborative systems, thus prompting the SIG proposal. We discussed issues surrounding using logging systems, methods, and metrics to collect data that are useful for evaluating collaborative systems.
{"title":"CHI 99 SIG: automated data collection for evaluating collaborative systems","authors":"J. Drury, T. Fanderclai, Frank Linton","doi":"10.1145/339290.339302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/339290.339302","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this CHI 99 Special Interest Group (SIG) session was to share lessons learned about using automated logging techniques to collect data for evaluating collaborative (multi-user) systems. Automated logging techniques are frequently used in evaluating the human-computer interaction of single-user systems. There has been much less experience in using logging techniques for evaluating collaborative systems, thus prompting the SIG proposal. We discussed issues surrounding using logging systems, methods, and metrics to collect data that are useful for evaluating collaborative systems.","PeriodicalId":7397,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGCHI Bull.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88885606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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