User Interface Design: Bridging the Gap from User Requirements to Design
User Interface Design: Bridging the Gap from User Requirements to Design
User Centered System Design; New Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction
User Centered System Design; New Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction
Circle & identify: interactivity-augmented object recognition for handheld devices
Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
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Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) have become the standard way in which we interact with our computers and over the years and have greatly improved our computers' usability. However, as computational power becomes increasingly ubiquitous and becomes part of the environment around us, we find ourselves reaching the useful limits of the GUI. These limits are even more pronounced in new environments like the home where many of the tasks we need to perform would be difficult, inefficient, and awkward using a GUI. In an effort to develop a natural, intuitive interface for the home, we are developing a project called HomeLab, which is an agent-based, adaptive, sensing and responding home environment. This project represents a new breed of interface called an "environmental interface." We feel environmental interfaces are more natural because they more closely resemble the physical, social "interface" humans interact with in their daily lives. Fundamentally, environmental interfaces abandon the idea of a single concentrated interface such as we might associate with a computer screen, and instead treat the whole environment (a home in our example) as the interface, seamless and immediate. Not only do appliances, screens, chairs, etc. all act as input and output devices but the house itself is a distributed system of agents responding to us. Our former notions of interfaces were narrow and centralized in space because our computers were. In the age of ubiquitous computing the interface should be distributed and ubiquitous.