Course pages 2012–13
Innovative User Interfaces
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Week 1: Early inspiration
Participants do not need to submit an essay in advance of the first meeting, but should still read the following papers and come prepared to discuss them.
- As we may think
- Vannevar Bush.
Atlantic Monthly, July 1945. - Man-computer symbiosis
- Joseph Licklider.
IRE Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics, March 1960. - Sketchpad
- Ivan Sutherland.
AFIPS Spring Joint Computer Conference, 1963.
Full dissertation reprinted as CL Technical report, September 2003.
Videos 1/2 and 2/2. - A methodology for user interface design
- Charles Irby, Linda Bergsteinsson, Thomas Moran, William Newman & Larry Tesler.
Xerox PARC, 1977.
Week 2: Windows, icons, mice and pointing
- The model human processor
- Stuart Card, Tom Moran & Alan Newell.
Handbook of Perception and Human Performance, Wiley, 1986. - Star graphics: an object-oriented implementation
- Daniel Lipkie, Steven Evans, John Newlin & Robert Weissman.
ACM SIGGraph 16(3), July 1982.
Videos 1/2 and 2/2. - The X Window System
- Robert Scheifler & Jim Gettys.
ACM Transactions on Graphics 5(2), April 1986.
Week 3: Video user interfaces
- Interacting with paper on the DigitalDesk
- Pierre Wellner.
Communication of the ACM 36(7), July 1993. - BrightBoard: A video-augmented environment
- Quentin Stafford-Fraser & Peter Robinson.
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 1996. - High-resolution interactive displays
- Mark Ashdown, Philip Tuddenham & Peter Robinson.
Tabletops — Horizontal Interactive Displays, Springer, 2010.
Week 4: Direct manipulation
- Direct manipulation: a step beyond programming languages
- Ben Shneiderman.
IEEE Computer 16(8), August 1983. - Toolglass and magic lenses: the see-through interface
- Eric Bier, Maureen Stone, Ken Pier, William Buxton & Tony DeRose.
ACM SIGGraph, August 1993 - Tangible bits: beyond pixels
- Hiroshii Ishii.
ACM Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction, February 2008.
Week 5: The disappearing computer
- Some Computer Science issues in ubiquitous computing
- Mark Weiser.
Communications of the ACM 36(7), July 1993.
Video and Forget-me-not - Sentient computing
- Andy Hopper.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 358, August 2000. - Building disappearing computers
- Daniel Russel, Norbert Streitz & Terry Winograd.
Communications of the ACM 48(3), March 2005.
Videos
Week 6: Special purposes
- What's real about virtual reality?
- Frederick Brooks.
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 19(6), November 1999 - Bridging the physical and digital in pervasive computing
- Steve Benford, Carsten Magerkurth & Peter Ljungstrand.
Communications of the ACM 48(3), March 2005. - Pragmatic research issues confronting HCI practitioners when designing for universal access
- Simeon Keates.
Universal Access in the Information Society 5(3), November 2006.
Week 7: Affective computing
- Facial Expression and Emotion
- Paul Ekman.
American Psychologist 48(3), April 1993. - Affective Computing
- Rosalind Picard.
MIT Media Lab, 1995. - Computers that care
- Scott Brave, Clifford Nass & Kevin Hutchinson.
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 62, January 2005.
Week 8: Emotional inference
- Real-time inference of complex mental states from facial expressions and head gestures
- Rana el Kaliouby & Peter Robinson.
Real-time vision for HCI, Springer-Verlag, 2005. - Classification of complex information: Inference of co-occurring affective states from their expressions in speech
- Tal Sobol-Shikler & Peter Robinson.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 31, May 2009. - Detecting affect from non-stylised body motions
- Daniel Bernhardt & Peter Robinson.
International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, September 2007.
Further resources
- IEEE timeline of computer history
- Computer History Museum timeline of computer history
- Intel timeline of the personal computer
- BT timeline of future technology