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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Eviatar Shafrir


Hewlett-Packard
Information Playgrounds: Local Metaphors for Interactive Information A Visual Design Perspective
January 27, 1995

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>Eviatar (Ev) Shafrir, M.Sc. (Scorpio, born 1958) is a visual interaction designer with the User Interaction Design group at Hewlett-Packard in Sunnyvale, California. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Mathermatics and Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a M.Sc. degree in Engineering Management from Stanford University. He is the senior designer reponsible for the visual appearance and behavior of <A HREF="http://www.hp.com/">Access HP.</A></P> <P>His design interests include non-latin screen-font creation, custom software components, and off-the-wall visual metaphors for hard-to-swallow software interfaces. Ev is a member of SIGCHI and of the Association for Software Design. His latest co-authored article regarding online information design titled &quot;Blazing the Trail&quot; appears in the January 1995 issue (volume 27 number 1) of the SIGCHI Bulletin.</P>