The familiar interfaces that have allowed humans and computers to communicate are being transformed before our eyes. The era of pointing, clicking, or typing is giving…
March 2000 - Vol. 43 No. 3
Features
A growing circle of space and tourism industry veterans say leisure trips to the cosmos are just a few years away. More than a dozen startup companies, encouraged by the…
Practical Programmer: Y2K and Believing in Software Practice
Naysayers made an event-turned-nonevent more unpleasant than it needed to be.
On Site: Using Telemedicine in the Department of Defense
Utilizing connectivity to provide and manage medical care in global times of crises.
Sharing Standards: Standardizing the European Information Society
New steps and rapid approaches in the effort to mainstream Europe's standards process.
From the President: Trademarking the Net
Net-based shopping is becoming commonplace, and the value of Internet real estate has become obvious both to established companies and to new Net-based companies. Name…
Viewpoint: Exploring the Telecommuting Paradox
According to a recent survey conducted by the International Telework Association and Council, 19.6 million U.S.-based employees telecommuted in 1999…
Perceptual User Interfaces (introduction)
There is no Moore’s Law for user interfaces. Human-computer interaction has not changed fundamentally for nearly two decades. Most users interact with computers by…
Perceptual User Interfaces: Perceptual Intelligence
Good-bye keyboard, so long mouse. Hello smart rooms and clothes that recognize acquaintances, understand speech, and communicate by gesture. And that's just the…
Perceptual -User Interfaces: Haptic Interfaces
Creating interfaces that envelop a sense of touch has met with measured success.
Perceptual -User Interfaces: Multimodal Interfaces that Process What Comes Naturally
Using our highly skilled and coordinated communication patterns to control computers in a more transparent interface experience.
Perceptual -User Interfaces: Affective Perception
Imagine you have just logged into your new computer, and it is displaying some of its fancy features. It then begins asking you a series of questions. You are in a hurry…
Perceptual -User Interfaces: Things That See
Exploring machine vision for human-computer interaction.
Perceptual -User Interfaces: The KidsRoom
Computer vision sensing technologies turn a child's bedroom into a dreamy wonderland.
Perceptual User Interfaces: Perceptual Bandwidth
What happens to people when computers become perceptually complex?
Programming By Example (Introduction)
Avoiding the voodoo of conventional programming, users get personalized solutions to one-of-a-kind application problems that can be used over and over again.
Programming By Example: Novice Programming Comes of Age
Stagecast Creator lets children and other novice programmers build interactive stories, games, and simulations without syntactic programming languages.
Programming By Example: Intelligence in Demonstrational Interfaces
A system needs the right level of intelligence to infer the correct generalizations from examples while providing enough feedback to keep the user in control.
Programming By Example: Programming By Analogous Examples
Combining programming by example and real-world analogies, users create new behavior out of existing behavior.
Programming By Example: Programming By Demonstration For Information Agents
Let users teach their own imperfect software agents what to do and where to do it.
Programming By Example: Generalizing By Removing Detail
To generalize programs in ToonTalk, use an animated vacuum cleaner to remove the details in virtual robots' thought bubbles.
Programming By Example: Visual Generalization in Programming By Example
Let PBE systems use the visual properties of on-screen interactive elements to bridge the user's view of an application and its underlying programmable functionality.
Thinking Objectively: Software Engineering in the Small
Smaller-sized software companies are developing significant products that need effective, tailored software engineering practices.
Inside Risks: A Tale of Two Thousands
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, but now it is time to reflect on the lessons of Y2K.
