CS547 Human-Computer Interaction Seminar
(Seminar on People, Computers, and Design)
Fridays 11:30am-12:30pm PT
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Gates B3
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Open to the public
Keith Edwards||Anthony LaMarca
Xerox PARC||Xerox PARC
Flatland User Interfaces
April 30, 1999
Flatland is an augmented whiteboard interface designed for
informal office work. Our research has investigated approaches
to building an augmented whiteboard in the context of continuous,
long-term office use. In particular, we have pursued three avenues
of research based on input from user studies: techniques for
the management of space on the board, the ability to flexibly
apply behaviors to support varied application semantics, and
mechanisms for managing history on the board. In this talk, we'll
discuss the rationale and requirements for Flatland, the architecture
of the system, and some of our experiences with it.
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<P><A HREF="http://www.parc.xerox.com/csl/members/kedwards/">Keith
Edwards</A> is a member of the research staff in the Computer
Science Lab (CSL) at Xerox PARC. His research has focused on
the architectural issues around building novel user interfaces,
especially collaborative and "richly graphical" systems.
He is also interested in the role of film craft and comic art
in interface design, and occasionally the odd systems topic such
as distributed object systems and programming language design.
Keith received his Ph.D. in computer science from Georgia Tech
in 1995.</P>
<P><A HREF="http://www.parc.xerox.com/csl/members/lamarca/">Anthony
LaMarca</A> joined PARC after finishing his PhD in computer science
from the University of Washington in 1996. Anthony's wide but
shallow tour of computer science has taken him through the areas
of HCI, graphics, theory, systems and architecture. His current
research interests lie in building understandable systems, distributing
computation and resolving the tension between these two. Anthony
office isn't nearly as cluttered as Keith's.</P>
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