Class Meeting: HCI

Admin

• please do not use the color printers in the GLAB... these are sensitive to paper and are expensive ($3.50 per page)

• remember: weekly report on Web end of each weekend
• be working on user manual
• be putting schedule online

Notes

• difficult to do well

• What are your favorite good/bad interface features?

• understanding issues related to human ergonomics and human perception require careful study, but introspection

• phone keypad layout... lesson in engineers are not necessarily the users

• "This is not an IQ test", "this is not a typing test"
  a good interface guides the user and make the task easier

• Air Force video streams project... millions to make a software package for manipulating simultaneous video streams for eval of cockpit layout

• KMS notes... examples

• KMS screen

• xTed screen

• xfig screen

• Object editing VEs
  
• Object warping in VEs
  
• Two-user warping