{"title":"Applying ecological interface design to experimental apparatus used to monitor a refrigeration plant","authors":"Pat Lehane, M. Toleman, J. Benecke","doi":"10.1109/AUIC.2000.822064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUIC.2000.822064","url":null,"abstract":"A small refrigeration plant, for teaching refrigeration theory, used a control console built to traditional design guidelines: one output in the display for each sensor in the plant. This style of console is notorious for inducing high cognitive loads on operators and for displaying redundant data. Often, the high cognitive load is the result of inconsistency between the intent for displaying the data and the format of the displayed data. An interface based on ecological interface design (EID) theory was designed and implemented. The completed interface provided the operator with information that was commensurate with his mental model derived from the system image. During the testing of the new interface, the expert operator's mental model of the refrigeration system was modified due to improved observation of the refrigeration plant's operational parameters. The application achieved the desired result and reduced the operator's workload by removing a cognitive task - that of determining the system stability-from the operator's task list.","PeriodicalId":310955,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings First Australasian User Interface Conference. AUIC 2000 (Cat. No.PR00515)","volume":"306 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130211257","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}
{"title":"(Focus+context)/sup 3/: distortion-oriented displays in three dimensions","authors":"Donovan Winch, P. Calder, Raymond S. Smith","doi":"10.1109/AUIC.2000.822078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUIC.2000.822078","url":null,"abstract":"3D datasets are becoming increasingly common, especially the use of large 3D datasets in geographical information systems (GIS) applications. Similar problems are likely with 3D datasets as have been found with large 2D datasets; namely the loss of context when examining a particular area of the data in detail. This paper proposes a solution based on 3D distortion-oriented displays, building on previous work on such displays for 2D datasets. Two such 3D distortion-oriented displays are described: the 3D Cartesian fisheye display and the 3D polar fisheye display. These displays are tested with a very small 3D dataset as a proof of concept, and it is proposed that their operation should be examined when applied to large datasets.","PeriodicalId":310955,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings First Australasian User Interface Conference. AUIC 2000 (Cat. No.PR00515)","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114711219","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}
{"title":"Question-driven classification of retrieved documents","authors":"Mingfang Wu, R. Wilkinson, Michael Fuller","doi":"10.1109/AUIC.2000.822079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUIC.2000.822079","url":null,"abstract":"Many existing information access systems deliver ranked lists of documents in response to users' queries. Some systems also endeavour to represent some of the various types of relationships that can exist between documents. However, few systems provide effective mechanisms to help users discover useful information within the set of retrieved documents. In this paper, we present a question-driven approach to delivering retrieved documents in an attempt to organize them in a way that is closer to the user's mental representation of the expected answer. In our proposed approach, retrieved documents are dynamically classified into categories; an appropriate classification scheme is selected by a user on the basis of his own understanding of the information need. Experimental results show that users are more satisfied with such a directed categorization than with a list of retrieved documents.","PeriodicalId":310955,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings First Australasian User Interface Conference. AUIC 2000 (Cat. No.PR00515)","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124841860","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}
{"title":"EMCE: a multimodal environment augmenting conferencing experiences","authors":"A. Ionescu, L. Julia","doi":"10.1109/AUIC.2000.822061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUIC.2000.822061","url":null,"abstract":"To illustrate research regarding how to augment people's experiences in office meetings of different types, we have developed EMCE (Enhanced Multimodal Conferencing Environment), a prototypical conference room. EMCE assists meeting participants in performing a host of functions, including (but not limited to) passing private messages, taking electronic notes, accessing personal files, writing both public and private annotations on projected objects, automatically creating meeting minutes, and remote conferencing. Our multimodal approach allows people to interact with the conference room through spoken or handwritten commands and drawn information. The room reacts in a multimedia fashion, outputting sound, video, text, etc. To make EMCE's use as intuitive as possible, our interface consists of a virtual view of the conference room that users can access either with screens embedded in a conference table or on their personal laptops. Our goal is to create an augmented environment that is as natural and easy to use as existing, nonaugmented meeting environments.","PeriodicalId":310955,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings First Australasian User Interface Conference. AUIC 2000 (Cat. No.PR00515)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129960264","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}
{"title":"Task and dialogue modelling: bridging the divide with Lean Cuisine+","authors":"C. Phillips, C. Scogings","doi":"10.1109/AUIC.2000.822070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUIC.2000.822070","url":null,"abstract":"Interactive system design requires good descriptive systems, and the development of tools to support it. In particular, models and notations are required for describing user tasks, and for describing the structure of the human-computer dialogue to support these tasks. These descriptions should ideally be linked. The paper reviews task and dialogue models, and describes how the divide between the two can be bridged via the Lean Cuisine+ notation, which is a semi-formal graphical notation for describing the behaviour of event based direct manipulation GUIs. The notation is placed in a wider context by reference to the system development life cycle and the unified modelling language (UML).","PeriodicalId":310955,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings First Australasian User Interface Conference. AUIC 2000 (Cat. No.PR00515)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125134839","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}
{"title":"Evaluation of animation effects to improve indirect manipulation","authors":"B. Thomas, V. Demczuk","doi":"10.1109/AUIC.2000.822075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUIC.2000.822075","url":null,"abstract":"The paper describes an experiment we have conducted to explore the effectiveness of animation in improving indirect manipulation operations. Indirect manipulation operations are those initiated by command menus and buttons, to perform a transformation on a graphical object or set of graphical objects. The particular improvement is an operation's ability to show both what would happen if the operation is committed and what would happen if it were cancelled, while an operation is being considered. The experiment required subjects to watch a simple alignment operation for a set of graphical objects. They were then asked to record the original placement of those graphical objects. Each task used one of four visual cues: modified telltale, wiggle, colour or no visual cue. We found the modified telltale, wiggle, and colour visual effects significantly more effective than no visual feedback for cuing the user as to the original position of the graphical objects. The modified telltale and colour effects were significantly more effective than the wiggle effect.","PeriodicalId":310955,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings First Australasian User Interface Conference. AUIC 2000 (Cat. No.PR00515)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115072500","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}
{"title":"Finger tracking for the Digital Desk","authors":"T. Brown, Richard C. Thomas","doi":"10.1109/AUIC.2000.822058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUIC.2000.822058","url":null,"abstract":"One trend in computing environments today is to move towards more 'natural' interaction. Another is to make hardware invisible to the user. Both these ideas converge into ubiquitous computing-the Digital Desk is an example of this idea. In this paper, we concentrate on an input device for the Digital Desk, namely the user's fingertip, which is made to act like a mouse. Tracking such an input device is common to a number of augmented reality environments and involves vision and motion analysis. However, previous attempts have focused more on the vision aspect of tracking general objects than on using the information already known about the user's hand, which is the approach taken in this paper. We adopted the goal of tracking the user's fingertips as fast as possible in real time, so that the system could be compared with other input devices by using models such as Fitts' law. Our system is shown to comply with the law adequately.","PeriodicalId":310955,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings First Australasian User Interface Conference. AUIC 2000 (Cat. No.PR00515)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122909930","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}
{"title":"Breaking the copy/paste cycle: the Stretchable Selection Tool","authors":"M. Apperley, D. Fletcher, W. J. Rogers","doi":"10.1109/AUIC.2000.822057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUIC.2000.822057","url":null,"abstract":"Copy-and-paste, or cut-and-paste, using a clipboard or paste buffer, has long been the principle facility provided to users for transferring data between and within GUI applications. We argue that this mechanism can be clumsy in circumstances where several pieces information must be moved systematically-for example, extracting a predetermined set of data fields from a piece of unstructured text. In dealing with the plethora of potentially useful, but not appropriately structured, information on the World Wide Web, interfaces which facilitate manual information gathering are of considerable importance. We present an alternative, more natural user interface facility to make the task less onerous, and to provide improved visual feedback during the operation. We call our facility the \"Stretchable Selection Tool\", a semi-transparent overlay augmenting the mouse pointer to automate paste operations and provide information to prompt the user. We describe a prototype implementation that functions in a collaborative software environment, allowing users to cooperate on multiple copy/paste operations.","PeriodicalId":310955,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings First Australasian User Interface Conference. AUIC 2000 (Cat. No.PR00515)","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116355935","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}
J. Warren, Heath K. Frankel, J. Noone, Berend J Zwaag
{"title":"Supporting special-purpose health care models via Web interfaces","authors":"J. Warren, Heath K. Frankel, J. Noone, Berend J Zwaag","doi":"10.1109/AUIC.2000.822077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUIC.2000.822077","url":null,"abstract":"The potential of the World Wide Web, via both the Internet and intranets, to facilitate the development of clinical information systems has been evident for some time. Most Web-based clinical workstation interfaces, however, merely provide a loose collection of access channels. There are numerous examples of systems for access to either patient data or clinical guidelines, but only isolated cases where clinical decision support is presented integrally with the process of patient care, in particular, in the form of active alerts and reminders based on patient data. Moreover, pressures in the health industry are increasing the need for doctors to practice in accordance with \"best practice\" guidelines and often to operate under novel healthcare arrangements. We present the Care Plan On-Line (CPOL) system, which provides intranet-based support for the South Australia HealthPlus \"Coordinated Care\" model for chronic disease management. We describe the interface design rationale of CPOL and its implementation framework, which is flexible and broadly applicable to support new healthcare models over intranets or the Internet.","PeriodicalId":310955,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings First Australasian User Interface Conference. AUIC 2000 (Cat. No.PR00515)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128155459","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}
{"title":"Programming without a computer: a new interface for children under eight","authors":"Peta Wyeth, H. Purchase","doi":"10.1109/AUIC.2000.822080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUIC.2000.822080","url":null,"abstract":"Electronic Blocks is a new programming interface, designed for children aged between three and eight years. The Electronic Blocks programming environment includes sensor blocks, action blocks and logic blocks. By connecting these blocks, children can program structures that interact with the environment. The Electronic Blocks programming interface design is based on principles of developmentally appropriate practices in early childhood education. As a result, the blocks provide young children with a programming environment that allows them to explore quite complex programming principles. The simple syntax of the blocks provides opportunities for young children that are unavailable through the use of traditional programming languages. The blocks allow children to create and use simple code structures. The Electronic Blocks environment provides a developmentally appropriate environment for planning overall strategies for solving a problem, breaking a strategy down into manageable units, and systematically determining the weakness of the solution. The Electronic Blocks interface is the physical embodiment of computer programming. The blocks have the unique dynamic and programmable properties of a computer, without its complexity.","PeriodicalId":310955,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings First Australasian User Interface Conference. AUIC 2000 (Cat. No.PR00515)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129535587","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}