Current topics, SS 2007

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Eric will be taking over the lab on 16.05 and 23.05. For 23.05, please read this paper, which talks about a new technique for point manipulation in (for example) drawing programs based on zooming. This paper was published just 2 weeks ago at CHI 2007. In particular, try to think about the potential problems of this technique and try to be critical of they way they performed their evaluation. We will discuss this in the lab on 23.05.

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There's no lab 05.07

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Schedule:

Part I: Humane Desktop Interfaces (from Jef Raskin, The Humane Interface)

Apr 03: Introduction (lecture video)

Reading: The Humane Interface, Chapter 2 (pp 17-32)]

Apr 10: Attention, Modes (lecture video)

Reading: The Humane Interface, Chapter 3

Paper: "PapierCraft: A Command System for Interactive Paper"

Apr 17: Unification (lecture video)

Reading: The Humane Interface, Chapter 4

Apr 24: GOMS: Keystroke-Level Modelling (lecture video)

Reading: The Humane Interface, Chapter 5

May 15: Navigation (lecture video)

Reading: The Humane Interface, Chapter 6

ZoomWorld Flash demo and Archy, available at RaskinCenter

Other demos of ZUIs

Reading for lab on May 23

Part II: UI Modeling (from other sources)

May 22 : State machines & statecharts (lecture video)<br>
June 05: Matrices (part 1 + 2) (lecture video)

Reading: Harold Thimbleby, "User Interface Design With Matrix Algebra" (ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Vol. 11, No. 2, June 2004, Pages 181–236).