Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 02:41:32 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi-AT-statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: [PARC Forum on June 8] Terry Winograd on "Interaction Design for


Greetings,

[An important event is taking place in XEROX PARC FORUM on the *Interaction 
Design for Ubiquitous Computing* --presented by Prof. Terry Winograd. I
think, at this point..It is an honour for me to let all the members of
technology list know, about an essay on "From Computing Machinery to
Interaction Design" written by Terry Winograd -which is also available
online at  <http://hci.stanford.edu/~winograd/acm97.html> This was a
chapter contributed in Peter Denning and Robert Metcalfe (eds.) anthology
"Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing, Springer-Verlag,
1997 at <http://www.acm.org> 

His complete list of publications can be seen at
<http://hci.stanford.edu/~winograd/publications.html> [Worth to visit:
Electronic Library for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) available on the
Net] 

Some thoughts on Dr. Mark Weiser, the father of Ubiquitous Computing:- At
the loss of Mark Weiser, the technology world lost one of its brightest
minds. Some pointers on Mark Weiser:-

Remembering Mark Weiser
<http://www-sul.stanford.edu/weiser/>

Ubiquitous Computing Webpage
<http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/UbiHome.html>

Mark Weiser Site
<http://www.ubiq.com/weiser/>

Thank you and my best wishes to Prof. Terry Winograd!
Best Regards
Arun Tripathi]
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Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 17:28:13 -0700
From: Terry Winograd <winograd-AT-CS.Stanford.EDU>
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XEROX PARC FORUM
Thursday, June 8, 2000
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Interaction Design for Ubiquitous Computing
Terry Winograd
Stanford University

More than a decade ago, Mark Weiser and his colleagues at Xerox PARC
articulated a vision of ubiquitous computing . Years of Moore's-Law
progress in the technology of computing devices have made it possible today
to build the environments he foresaw---environments in which people do not
interact with computers, but operate coherently in an integrated setting
that incorporates computers and interaction devices of all sizes and kinds.
Recent advances in wireless communication and mobile computing have further
extended the ubiquitous computing environment to anywhere, anyone, and any
time.

Advances in hardware, though, are not sufficient to bring about ubiquitous
computing (as we have always known).  We cannot simply adapt existing
software environments, which have evolved for decades to support the
conventional one-person, one-display, one-computer setting (whether
desktop, laptop, or PDA).  On the other hand, we cannot ignore those
environments and start from scratch to "do it right". There are far too
many legacy systems, applications, and habits of interaction that pervade
the users' world.  It is futile to expect people to leave this history
behind in order to move into a new world of ubiquitous computing.

The problem, then, is to create a hardware/software environment that
supports multi-person, multi-device, multi-location work in an integrated
way, building on existing software technologies while providing coherence
for the environment as a whole. This requires both system integration, so
that all the devices can interoperate, and interaction integration, so the
user is not faced with a bewildering hodgepodge of loosely related interfaces.

The Interactive Workspaces Project at Stanford is exploring new solutions
to these problems in an experimental environment we call the "interactive
room" (see <http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/iwork> In this talk I
will give an overview of the problems we are tackling and our goals, and
will describe some of the initial prototypes we have developed both at the
infrastructure and interface levels.

----

Terry Winograd is Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University,
where he directs the program on Human Computer Interaction (see
<http://hci.stanford.edu>  He is well known for his early work on
Artificial Intelligence and his subsequent book with Fernando Flores,
Understanding Computers and Cognition (Addison-Wesley, 1987), which takes a
critical view of the AI field.  For the last ten years he has worked in the
area of Human-Computer Interaction, and has edited a book Bringing Design
To Software (Addison-Wesley, 1996 - see <http://hci.stanford.edu/bds> His
current research includes interfaces to digital libraries (see
<http://diglib.stanford.edu>) and interfaces for ubiquitous computing (see
<http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/iwork>

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