IBM Almaden's user sciences & experience research lab

Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems Reaching through technology - CHI '91, 1991

On July 27, 1990 MCC'S senior management in consultation with the participating companies in MCC'S Advanced Computer Technology Program elected to terminate MCC's Human Interface Laboratory. This decision ended a six and one-half year effort to build a large, integrated, multidisciplinary research program on user interface technology. The Lab produced numerous prototype technologies, many described in CHI conference proceedings. Nevertheless, its struggle to integrate the research disciplines, involve the participating companies, and survive changes in the structure of research funding provide a microcosm of difficult issues facing other user interface research programs. Conceived in 1982 and established a year later, MCC was an experiment to see if industrial competitors could cooperate on precompetitive research. The strategic objective was to leverage R&D expenditures on large scale projects that none of the participating companies could afford to undertake alone. The original plan called for four programs: Packaging/Interconnect, VLSI-CAD, Software Technology, and Advanced Computer Technology. This latter program was designed to respond to the Japanese initiative in fifth generation computing, and consisted of research on parallel processing, symbolic databases, AI, and Human Interface. The purpose of this panel is to present to the CHI community the lessons learned, both technical and organizational, in the rise and demise of MCC'S Human Interface Laboratory. We will describe the vision, the technology prototypes, the technology transfer challenges, and organizational conditions that permeated the Lab's existence. The panelists include some of those who played key roles during the Lab's short life. Each will present a unique perspective on the Laboratory and its research produce. These perspectives will range from manager to researcher, from producer to consumer, and from MCC to participant company.

Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Intelligent user interfaces - IUI '97, 1997

In the context of CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative work), we aim to ease the interaction between users through the use of user-aware agents. The purpose of those agents is to be aware of the user's state (e.g. is the user typing on the keyboard, meeting with other people, on the phone, etc.). We will first describe an application we developed on top of a MediaSpace, EasyMeeting, based on user-aware agents. Second, we will present the implementation (multi-agent architecture, language) and conclude with a discussion ef the various aspects of the agents. We believe, the useraware agents are a step toward a better communication manmachine. Instead of the usual approach in which users consciously interact with the machine, we make the computer aware of the users and thus make users unconsciously interact with the computer.

Applied sciences, 2023

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2009

Summary : This paper presents a platform, named MultiCom, for the design and the evaluation of user interfaces and more generally of interactive systems or products dedicated to the end user. MultiCom is a kind of "usability lab" which contains various distributed resources on network and dedicated software to capture and analyse the human working with a computer. It can be notice that very few generic usability labs exist now in the world. The methodology of MultiCom is based on the cycle life used in software engineering domain, by having multidisciplinary approach, unifying several methods on sociology, ergonomics, and computing engineering. The cycle life starts from the original idea of product or system to need and ends by the evaluation after the complete exploitation by the client. The results show that it is very important to design all innovative product or service by integrating the end user in the "development loop" of the system. This point of view i...

2009

Alternative interaction devices become more important in the communication between users and computers. Parallel graphical User Interfaces underlay a continuous development and research. But today does no adequate connection exist between these both aspects. So if a developer wants to provide an alternative access over more intuitive interaction devices, he has to implement this interaction-possibility on his own by regarding the users perception. A better way to avoid this time-consuming development-process is presented in this paper. This method can easy implement by a developer and users get the possibility to interact on intuitive way.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2008

2009

The article pays tribute to the emergence in 1993 of graphical browsers that allow users to address electronic information with a point-and-click interface, and places this development on a par with other important historical events that shaped society and the life of the individuals. It describes the resistance that some voiced at the time to the prompt economical utilization of the Internet's new possibilities. It goes on to describe current technical developments in the human-computer interface environment that could be very, perhaps even comparably, important. It concludes with an appeal for the courage to develop technical innovations, particularly in difficult economic times.

2009

This special issue of AI and Society is based on a workshop held in conjunction with Intelligent User Interfaces 2008 and brings together selected papers from this workshop as well as additional work on cultural aspects of human–computer interaction. The idea for this workshop was born from discussions in the German–Japanese project CUBE-G1 (CUlture-adaptive BEhavior Generation), which focuses on the challenge of integrating cultural heuristics into the interactive behavior of multimodal systems.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2015

In this half-day tutorial Jochen Denzinger, partner at the design studio ma ma Interactive System Design, and Tom Gross, full professor and chair of the Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Bamberg, present methodologies for understanding users, tasks, and contexts, for designing interactive systems beyond the desktop, and for evaluating them in novel domains.