{"title":"Healthy HCI?","authors":"H. Thimbleby","doi":"10.1145/571740.571752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/571740.571752","url":null,"abstract":"If HCI was like French, we would be emphasising the right ways of speaking to complex systems. In French itself, we learn how to speak, read and understand another human language. We might, as we became fluent, be interested in different dialects like the variations between Microsoft and Apple systems. If HCI was French, it would help lots of people communicate with devices and have more fulfilled lives interacting better.","PeriodicalId":7070,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigchi Bulletin","volume":"1 4 1","pages":"8 - 8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82870512","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":"About places","authors":"J. Konstan","doi":"10.1145/571740.571742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/571740.571742","url":null,"abstract":"It seems you can hardly steer your browser down the information superhighway without coming to a \"place.\" In particular , CHIplace and CSCWplace each represent an online forum where members of the community of attendees can gather before and after the conference. In concept, this allows the conference to have an impact that spans well beyond the less-than-a-week that attendees usually gather. In this column, I take a look at these sites. I do so with the following caveats. First, while I'm interested in virtual communities such as these, I have never done research on them, and my comments are written with complete ignorance of the research in the field. Second, I'm a skeptic. As a general rule, I don't get it. I think life is already too busy to spend time \"visiting a conference off-season.\" I, like friends and colleagues, but have enough of a challenge finding time to keep up in person, by phone, and by e-mail. I have created profiles and even a message or two, but always because I was asked to by a friend or colleague-for the good of the broader community. And, until starting to write this column, I never went to the sites to seek information , people, or anything else. So, let's start with my recent visit to both CHIplace and CSCWplace. I'll start with CSCWplace, because there's less to discuss. After creating a profile there (since I'm on the committee, it was the least I could do-and indeed, I did the least I could do), I hadn't stopped back to see what was happening. As of this writing, which is about two months before the conference, this \"community\" has about 55 people with profiles, most of them very brief. Indeed, I couldn't find anyone for whom the profile was more interesting than their home web page, though in a few cases it was better targeted at the CSCW conference, which is nice if that's your interest. Beyond profiles, there were places for discussion, quick surveys, and CSCW trivia. Unfortunately, the community hadn't really started to create much content. There were two discussion messages, both by the same person, and both about improving the site. There was one bit of trivia. And there were a couple of survey questions. But it was clear that this was all \"seed\" content created by the site editors. There was a bit of useful information (links …","PeriodicalId":7070,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigchi Bulletin","volume":"5 1","pages":"3 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87730464","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":"Sometimes we aim too high","authors":"G. Abowd","doi":"10.1145/568190.568206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/568190.568206","url":null,"abstract":"I am a conflicted researcher. For the past few years, I have been focusing on ubiquitous computing in the home. The driving motivation is noble. We want to use technology to allow aging individuals to remain independent with the choice to stay in their own homes. The research agenda is ambitious. We want to create an aware domestic environment that is engineered to provide a suite of services leveraging off knowledge of the whereabouts and activities of its occupants. The theme is popular. Large research efforts, both academic and industrial, have started up in Japan, Europe and the United States.","PeriodicalId":7070,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigchi Bulletin","volume":"28 1","pages":"10 - 10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81247176","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":"The sun rose, and didn't set","authors":"J. Konstan","doi":"10.1145/568190.568192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/568190.568192","url":null,"abstract":"Yes, friends, this is the last article on my now-ended sabbatical journeys. And while the above title could well refer to my starting point in Finland, it actually alludes to my visits to Japan (the Land of the Rising Sun) and Britain (the Empire on which the Sun Never Set), along with a brief visit to Ireland. The contrast in HCI among these countries provides fitting closure to a year of discovery. Even to the unfocused tourist, Japan presents a striking mix of new and old. Long-held traditions are carried out by people riding bullet trains and talking (or as likely, thumb-keying) on the latest color-display mobile phones with far more bandwidth and features than I expect to see in the States this decade. In the same day, one can visit historic temples and shrines, and then partake of the Electric City (Akihabara)-a very active shrine to consumer technology. I had seen a handful of exciting papers and demos from Japan, and was eager to explore more of the environment that spawned them. I first visited the University of Tsukuba, located in a high-tech region outside of Tokyo. Here I saw how the traditional (in this case Mechanical Engineering) was applied to create the novel (Robotics, haptics, and display technology). I saw a remote-controlled robot wandering a museum exhibit, under the control of the curator, talking with visitors and pointing out features of the exhibit. I also saw a variety of wrap-around displays for immersive applications and a small omni-directional treadmill for more extensive virtual reality. Next, I traveled to ATR (Advanced Telecommunications Research) near Kyoto where an international group of researchers is exploring a variety of new interactions and media. Animated agents gathered together to collaborate on behalf of their users. Media-rich spaces used perceptual techniques to control focus and information flow. And a variety of basic and applied research brought together issues of visual, audio, and linguistic processing. The following day I visited Osaka University and saw even more fun applications including a \"magic table\" that uses a simple but clever approach for multiuser VR with different people pointing into a common space from around a table. My final stop in Japan was Sony's Computer Science Laboratory. I had seen some of Jun Rekimoto's work at conferences , and in his invited talk at Interact 2001, so I was eager to see it in person. I wasn't disappointed. …","PeriodicalId":7070,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigchi Bulletin","volume":"34 1","pages":"3 - ff"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76261177","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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