In this Proseminar, we discuss research results from the field of Human Computer Interaction with a focus on computer science. In recent decades, this area has changed extensively, mainly through technological innovations. We primarily consider these changed interactions between one or more people and one or more computers.
We will discuss both traditional innovations and challenges (e.g., Vannevar Bush’s Memex) but also more up--to--date research (e.g., human sensor). The goal is to discuss existing approaches and ideas from computer science perspective and to deduce influences for their own practice of software development.
In this course, we will cover a selection of important paper on pioneering work in HCI. Each semester, the focus of the more recent work might change. Each week, one student will present one important approach, and we will discuss it in class. Within presentations students have to introduce the assigned readings, will discuss them in context and will derive new, possible topics. Articles are chosen because they describe either a specific sub--area, represent the first article in a specific area, or introduce different approaches in the area.
Schedule
Day 1 - Course overview and introduction into course context (15-Oct)
Day 2 - Philosophical beginnings (22-Oct)
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Bush V (1945) "As we may think " The Atlantic Monthly, version with pictures attached, interactions March 1996, pp.35-46 |
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| Further reading I |
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| Further reading II |
Copeland & Proudfoot (1999): "Alan Turing's Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science", Scientific American April 1999 |
Day 3 - The vision and implementation of the HCI desktop (29-Oct)
| Assignment |
Erickson, T., and D. McDonald. "The Mouse, the Demo, and the Big Idea." 29-33. |
| Additional Information for assignment |
Watch first! Especially clips 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 15, 17, 21, 35, or the whole (100 mins) of Video of 8 December 1968 "Mother of all demos" |
| Further reading I |
Douglas C. Engelbart and William K. English. 1968. A research center for augmenting human intellect. In Proceedings of the December 9-11, 1968, fall joint computer conference, part I (AFIPS '68 (Fall, part I)). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 395-410. |
| Further reading II |
Engelbart, D.C. Augmenting human intellect: A ConceptualEngelbart, D. C. 1962. Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework. Stanford: Stanford Research Institute. Framework (1962) |
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Peter Wegner. 1997. Why interaction is more powerful than algorithms. Commun. ACM 40, 5 (May 1997), 80-91. |
Day 4 - Flexible interaction (5-Nov)
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Ivan E. Sutherland. 1964. Sketch pad a man-machine graphical communication system. In Proceedings of the SHARE design automation workshop (DAC ’64). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6.329-6.346.
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| Additional Information for assignment |
Watch! Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad Demo |
| Further reading I |
More information on the Sketch Pad in the TechReport (resource folder)
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| Further reading II |
Following information on the Dynabook which is build upon this idea in a totally different context:
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Day 5 - Philosophical beginnings (12-Nov)
| Assignment |
Licklider, J. C. R. 1960. Man-Computer Symbiosis. IRE Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics HFE-1 (1), 4–11. |
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| Further reading I |
Baecker, R.M. (2008). Man-Computer Symbiosis by J.C.R.Licklider. In Erickson, T. and McDonald, D. (Eds.), HCI Remixed, MIT Press. |
| Further reading II |
Licklider, Joseph CR, and Robert W. Taylor. "The computer as a communication device." Science and technology 76.2 (1968): 1-3. |
Day 6 - Flexible interaction (19-Nov)
| Assignment |
T. H. Nelson. 1965. Complex information processing: a file structure for the complex, the changing and the indeterminate. In Proceedings of the 1965 20th national conference (ACM '65), Lewis Winner (Ed.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 84-100.
A new print is online available here on scribd. (article is included in: Wardrip-Fruin, N., Montfort, N. The new media reader(2006): 133-46.)
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| Additional Information for assignment |
Watch! Ted Nelson demonstrates Xanadu Space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En_2T7KH6RA |
| Further reading I |
If you look in the online resource of the article on scribd, some more references can be found.
Russell, R.: Deeply Intertwingled. In HCI Remixed: Reflections on Works That Have Influenced the HCI Community.
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| Further reading II |
Nelson, T. 1974. Computer Lib/Dream Machines. Self-published. (Republished in 1987 by Microsoft Press, Redmond, Washington.) |
Day 7 - Towards insightful design of interfaces (26-Nov)
| Assignment |
Shneiderman, B. 1983. Direct Manipulation: A Step beyond Programming Languages. IEEE Computer 16(8): 57–69. |
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| Further reading I |
Smith, D. C.; Irby, C.; Kimball, R.; Verplank, W.; and Harslem, E. 1982. Designing the STAR User Interface. BYTE 4:242–282. |
| Further reading II |
Hutchins, E. L.; Hollan, J. D.; and Norman, D. A. 1986. Direct Manipulation Interfaces. In User-Centered System Design, eds. D. A. Norman and S. W. Draper, 87–124. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum. |
Day 8 - Augmenting interfaces (3-Dec)
| Assignment |
Henry Lieberman. 1997. Autonomous interface agents. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI ’97). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 67-74. |
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| Further reading I |
Frohlich, David M., The history and future of direct manipulation, Behaviour & Information Technology 12, 6 (1993), 315-329. |
| Further reading II |
Norman D (1988): The psychopathology of everyday things, in The Psychology of everyday things, Basic Books, pp 1-33.
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Day 9 - Human-Machine Cooperation (10-Dec)
| Assignment |
Ben Shneiderman and Pattie Maes. 1997. Direct manipulation vs. interface agents. interactions 4, 6 (November 1997), 42-61. |
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| Further reading I |
Special Issue on Mixed-Initiative Interaction. IEEE Intelligent Systems 14, 5 (September 1999), 14-23;
Eric Horvitz. 1999. Principles of mixed-initiative user interfaces. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’99). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 159-166.
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| Further reading II |
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Day 10 - Computer Supported Cooperative Work (17-Dec)
| Assignment |
Grudin, J. (1994). "Computer-Supported Cooperative Work: History and Focus".Computer 27 (5): 19-26 |
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| Further reading I |
Schmidt, K., and Bannon, L. 1992. Taking CSCW Seriously: Supporting Articulation Work. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 1 (1), 7–40. |
| Further reading II |
Bos, Nathan, et al. "From shared databases to communities of practice: A taxonomy of collaboratories." Journal of Computer‐Mediated Communication 12.2 (2007): 652-672. |
Day 11 - Rücksprache (7-Jan)
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Sprechstunden-Wiki |
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Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter Ressources im Ordner Abstract/Zusammenfassung. |
Day 12 - Talks 1 (14-Jan)
Day 13 - Talks 2 (21-Jan)
| V3 |
Vasil Rumenov Vasilev |
| V4 |
Konstantinos Vasileiou |
Day 14 - Talks 3 (28-Jan)
| V5 |
Markus Radtke |
| V6 |
Marwen Gharbi: "As we may think, a way much more than a theory" |
Day 15 - Talks 4 (4-Feb)
| V7 |
Dinesh Parshad Punni |
| V8 |
Antonio Pérez Rodríguez |
Day 16 - Talks 5 (11-Feb)
| V9 |
Daria Kravets |
| V10 |
Dennis Jacobi |