Future Directionsin HCI

Chris North

cs3724: HCI

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• michael young, • eric tester, • craig sinning, • darrin schmidt

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Next• Project 3: due Thurs Apr 25

Presentations: UI critique, HW2, P2• Tues:

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Knott, Brain Maher, James Mosher, Joshua Patterson

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Review

• UI specification approaches?• GUI builders

• UAN -> IOG

• Labview, end-user programming

• dataflow

• snap

Project 3

• ?

Future Directions in HCI

• Visualization

• Virtual Environments

• Multi-modal interaction

• Ubiquitous computing

• Collaborative systems

• Agents

Visualization

• Visualization everywhere

• Large multiple displays

• Peripheral displays

Virtual Environments

• 3D display, immersive

• Stereo glasses, HMD

• Head tracking

• Gloves

• CAVE• http://www.sv.vt.edu/future/vt-cave/apps/

Multi-Modal Interaction

• Speech recognition

• Gesture recognition, 2 hands

• Face recognition

• Eye tracking, body tracking

• biometrics

• “audiolization”

Ubiquitous Computing

• Everything is “smart”

• Many form factors• PDAs, cars, appiances, buildings, …

• Wireless networking

• Wearable computers

• Augmented reality

Collaborative Systems

• Synchronous vs. Asynchronous

• Co-located vs. Remote

• Virtual communications

• Groupware

• Shoulderware• Multiple input devices

Agents

• Autonomous agents

• Data mining

• Recommender systems

• Artificial intelligence

• Anthropomorphism?

Genex

• Near term

Airforce

• Command & Control