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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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Jay Trimble


NASA ARC
The MERBoard: A Multi-Mission Platform for Collaborative Mission Control Applications
April 9, 2004

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> <P>Jay Trimble is Computer Scientist, NASA ARC, Group Lead of Ubiquitous Computing and User Centered Design Group. Project Lead for Mission Control Technologies initiative. MCT is a new framework for the creation of mission systems using collaborative component technologies. At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory he was Operations Director for Shuttle Imaging Radar-C, managed design and development of mission operations system and payload operations control center for an Earth Observing Radar that flew two successful missions on the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1994. Science support team member for the Voyager Neptune Encounter in 1989. At NASA Johnson Space Center he had a payload operations position in the mission control center. Developed checklists, procedures, command and control interfaces and displays for the operation of payloads on the Shuttle<br> </P> <P>