Introduction to the Course

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Introduction to the Course

• Marti Hearst (UCB SIMS)
• SIMS 213, UI Design Development
• 19, 1999

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Today

• Introductions (Prof, TA, students)
• Administrivia
• What is an interface?
• To an object? (a building, a microwave oven)
• To a process? (brushing your teeth)
• Assumptions about computer interfaces
• Video of Xerox Star (1981)
• Video of Apple Knowledge Navigator (An
  Envisionment! Not Real!) (1984)

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Introduction

• Where Ive worked
• Courses Ive taught
• Research Ive done

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My Approach to Information Access Research

• User Interfaces
• (information visualization)
• Information Access
• (information retrieval)
• Language and Task Analysis
• Content Analysis

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Intro to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

• Topics
• Definitions
• How to design and build UIs
• Model Human Processor
• Task Analysis
• Evaluation