[Sigia-l] Fwd: PCD 12/2/05 - Jim Hollan, UC San Diego, Opportunities and Challenges for HCI Design and Research

[Livia Labate]

I thought this list would be interested in this broadcast:

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Stanford Seminar on People, Computers, and Design (CS547)
http://hci.stanford.edu/seminar
Gates B01 (HP Classroom) and SITN, 12:30-2:00pm PDT (UTC 19:30)
Video: http://scpd.stanford.edu/scpd/students/courseList.asp CS547
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Friday, December 2, 2005

Jim Hollan, UC San Diego
     hollan at cogsci.ucsd.edu
     http://hci.ucsd.edu/hollan/

TITLE: Opportunities and Challenges for HCI Design and Research

ABSTRACT :
The miniaturization and increasing power of commodity computing
devices makes possible wide-scale applications of computation. This
presents enormous new challenges for design. Not only is the
monolithic "computer" being unbundled into fragmentary, appliance-like
components, but experience in constructing the first generation of
applications reveals that we continue to have much to learn about
designing systems such that they mesh with and improve real-world
activities.

As with many challenges there is also opportunity. The same forces
leading to ubiquitous computing are also changing the nature and
richness of data we can collect about human activities. In the history
of science, the appearance of new technologies for collecting or
analyzing data frequently has spawned rapid scientific advancement.
The human genome project, for example, would have been unfathomably
complex without automatic DNA
sequencing technology. In the present case, a new generation of inexpensive
digital video recording devices is revolutionizing data collection for
studying human activity, extending it to situations that have not
typically been accessible and enabling examination of the fine detail
of action captured in meaningful settings.

Drawing from current work with my students and collaborators on
multiscale information visualization, personal information
environments, negotiated sharing of personal information, embodied
interaction and gesture, ethnography of freeway driving,
paper-augmented digital documents, and vision-based tools to aid
analysis of video data, as well as recent work of others, I
characterize what I see as the major opportunities and challenges for
HCI research.

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Jim Hollan is Professor of Cognitive Science and Adjunct Professor of
Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego. In
collaboration with Ed Hutchins, he directs the Distributed Cognition
and Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory. His early work at UCSD with
Don Norman and others helped highlight the importance of User-Centered
System Design (note the UCSD acronym). He left UCSD to direct the MCC
Human Interface Laboratory and subsequently established the Computer
Graphics and Interactive Media Research Group at Bellcore. In 1993, he
moved to the University of New Mexico as Chair of the Computer Science
Department. Coming full circle he returned to UCSD in 1997 to create
the DCOG-HCI lab and also get back to surfing. In addition to its well
established research reputation, in other communities UCSD is known as
the top surf school.