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CS547 Human-Computer Interaction Seminar   (Seminar on People, Computers, and Design)

Fridays 11:30am-12:30pm PT · Gates B3 · Open to the public
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Scott Minneman||John Tang


Xerox PARC||SMLI
Shared Drawing: sketching tools for distributed design
May 20, 1992

Human Computer Interaction is increasingly engaged with the social-cultural context that people live in everyday. The city, in all its grit and glory, provides a complex and rich context in which to understand the challenges technologies face when they are adopted by people in the real world. In this presentation, I discuss three on-going research initiatives from my group at Cornell Tech in New York City which grapple with interaction in the urban context: Trashbots in the City, Urban Fingerprinting, and Communal eXtended Reality. These projects highlight different aspects of urban interaction--culture, scale, engagement--which demand new approaches from researchers and practitioners in HCI. In this talk, I will also champion the perspectives that HCI brings to the already crowded urban landscape.

<P>Scott Minneman is a researcher in the Work Practice and Technology Area at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. He is interested in inter-disciplinary group engineering design activity, and in the development of video and computing technologies to support design activity. He received his PhD from Stanford in Mechanical Engineering, working at the Center for Design Research.</P> <P>John Tang currently works in the Conferencing and Collaboration group at Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Inc. on the development of desktop conferencing technology. His research interests include studies of use of multimedia, collaborative technology. His Ph.D. thesis (sponsored by Xerox PARC at CDR) studied the work activity of design teams, and was applied to the development and study of several prototype shared drawing tools at Xerox PARC.</P>