I'm pretty sure I went to school with this guy while I was up at U-
dub. Small world..
On Mar 15, 2006, at 10:59 PM, horst wrote:
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
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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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