Extreme & Radical User Interfaces:
Exploring NEW Interaction Paradigms
Each summer the IBM Almaden Research Center's USER lab hosts a one-day special
event for the UI / HCI / user experience community. The event, now in its
10th year, is the New Paradigms in User Computing (NPUC) workshop. We invite
the people who have the talent, the skills and the insights on how humans
and computing intersect.
This year, we'll be hosting NPUC on July 29th. As usual,
it will be held in the IBM Almaden Research Center's auditorium with lunch
provided. And, as usual, our guest speakers will be people on the leading
edge of human interaction technology.
Workshop description
The world of computer-based interaction is changing again.
The past year has seen yet another increase in computational power, another
huge drop in the cost of storage, and a deeper penetration of networking
into everyplace. Similar trends are happening in the user interfaces.
We're seeing the rise of qualitatively new kinds of interfaces
-- ones that are built into the world in unexpected ways -- ones that extend
the idea of interface beyond windows, mice and keyboards. Today, a huge
fraction of water faucets rely on infrared motion detection, haptics are
built into more and more devices, even the very walls and tabletops of our
world are growing embedded computer displays. Computer vision techniques,
once available only to high-end processors, now can be inexpensively embodied
in lower-cost, more ubiquitous devices.
By contrast with the user experience of commercial applications
and hardware, there is a growing recognition that newer methods of interaction
solve many problems that keyboards can't quite handle. There are built-in
affordances, and new capabilities at every turn. The list of innovations
and deployments coming from the extended world of extreme and radical interfaces
is impressive. It's time we took our NPUC-ian look at what's going on.
Our program will continue to develop until the day of, but
we already have an outstanding set of speakers:
- Karon MacLean (U. British Columbia) on physical / haptic
interfaces,
- Kevin Wheeler (NASA Ames) on myoelectric interfaces and
sensory extensions
- Rich Gold (The RED Shift) on desire in content
- Richard Marks (Sony) on new computer-vision interaction
techniques,
- Terry Winograd (Stanford) on room-sized interaction technology,
- Tina Blaine (CMU) on new interfaces for musical expression
For more details, please see the NPUC 2002 program.
Registration is now open. There is no charge. Please
enter the information needed in the registration
form.
For information about previous years, see the following links.
Hope to see you there!
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Where: IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA
Directions: http://www.almaden.ibm.com/almaden/visitorinfo.html
Date: Monday, July 29, 2001
Time: 9AM 5PM (coffee and registration begins
at 8:15AM)
What is NPUC? New Paradigms
for User Computing (NPUC) is a non-confidential, invitation-only workshop
and soiree for the community. In this one-day event, NPUC bridges academic
and industrial HCI/CHI/UI/UE centers of work by focusing on a common theme.
We invite several leading experts in the area of human interaction technology
to come and tell us what they know, and have plenty of chance to discuss
what's going on. It's a chance to hear the latest, best work in our field,
and a premier opportunity to network within the human-centered computing
field.
Questions? Send email to npuc@almaden.ibm.com
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