Paradigms of Interaction

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Paradigms of Interaction

• Building better systems by repeating historys
  lessons

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Agenda

• Questions
• Project follow-up?
• History of interactive breakthroughs
• themes
• people

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What Makes a Good Project

• Interesting human issues
• Novel forms of interaction
• Depth and detail in the domain
• Support 3 design ideas
• Lets you show off say no to kiosks
• Access to domain expertsusers
• Do NOT start with the technology

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Extra credit

• Prepare two-page short paper to submit to the CHI
  2001 conference.
  
• Announce intention by mid-semester

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History of interactive breakthroughs

• Book is thematic
• Rheingolds Tools for Thought
• on-line

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Paradigm shifts

• Networks and time-sharing
• Video display units
• Programming toolkits

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Paradigm shifts (contd)

• Personal computing
• Windows
• Metaphors

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Paradigm shifts (contd)

• Direct manipulation
• Language vs. action (agents)
• Hypertext/WWW

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Paradigm shifts (contd)

• Multi-modality
• CSCW
• Ubiquitous computing

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The people responsible

• See lecture from last year
• Also see list of Web bios

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Upcoming

• Usability Principles
• DFAB 4.3
• Design of Everyday Things
• Norman, Ch 1-4
• Homework 1 (assigned Friday)
• Project Part 0 (due 9/6)