Jeffrey Nichols got a good point:
Among many things, just switching cell phones, watches, alarm clocks,...
from ancient am/pm to 24 hr mode can be a pain in the
youPick(whatHurtsMost[]).
So consequently, the talk is next Thursday at 15:30
- Horst
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:15:04 -0800
From: Cheri Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: UO CIS Faculty Search Colloquium, Thursday, March 16, 2006
Faculty Search Colloquium: Automatically Generating High-Quality User
Interfaces for Appliances
Jeffrey Nichols
Carnegie Mellon University
ABSTRACT
The number and diversity of computerized appliances in our homes and offices is
greatly increasing. These appliances are well-known for being difficult to use,
in part because manufacturers want to support many features while economizing
on buttons and screens. This leads to multiple independent functions being
overloaded on a single button and user feedback that consists of beeps to
indicate success and failure. Each appliance interface also has its own
idiosyncrasies, which means that learning to use a particular appliance from
one manufacturer often does not help when learning to use a similar appliance
from a different manufacturer. In this talk, I present the Personal Universal
Controller (PUC) framework, which moves appliance interfaces from the physical
appliance to a handheld device that the user is already carrying, such as a
personal digital assistant (PDA) or mobile phone. I will focus on the PUC
framework's ability to automatically generate personally consistent interfaces
that take into account interfaces that the user has previously encountered,
which addresses the problem of idiosyncratic interfaces. I will conclude with a
brief discussion of how this work might be applied to improve user interfaces
in other domains.
BIOGRAPHY
Jeffrey Nichols is a doctoral student in the Human-Computer Interaction
Institute in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, where he
is advised by Brad Myers. He is the lead researcher on the Personal Universal
Controller project, exploring how handheld computers can improve the usability
of household and office appliances. He received a BS degree in computer
engineering from the University of Washington in 2000. Contact him at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or www.jeffreynichols.com.
DATE: Thursday, March 16, 2006
TIME: 3:30 p.m. talk, refreshments following talk
PLACE: 220 Deschutes Hall (Colloquium Room), University of Oregon
For all CIS public talks, go to:
http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/activities/talks/
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