March 2000 - Vol. 43 No. 3

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Features

Opinion

Editorial Pointers

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 way to new seamless, intuitive links between the two worlds. This issue presents two very different special sections with one common anthem: It’s clear we’ve reached a turning point […]
News

News Track

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 traveling public’s desire for new experiences and the technology needed to make space travel possible, are working to build rockets safe enough to carry paying […]
Opinion

Forum

I read Robert Glass’s "Practical Programmer" column ("Evolving a New Theory of Project Success," Nov. 1999, p. 17) and would like to add a practitioner’s point of view. First, I agree software projects need "More accurate and honest estimates. More understanding of the complexity of scope. More expert help." If we had all this, we’d […]
Opinion

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 recognition is synonymous with an easy-to-remember domain name. Because there is only one dot-com top-level domain name, names in the dot-com domain have become a scarce resource. The irony is […]
Opinion

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 (www.telecommute.org). Although some 62% of companies are reportedly encouraging telecommuting [1], a mere 7% of employees actually telecommute. This curious dichotomy—the small number of telecommuters despite the apparent plethora of telecommuting programs in organizations—has been […]
Research and Advances

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 typing, pointing, and clicking. The majority of work in human-computer interfaces (HCI) in recent decades has been aimed at creating graphical user interfaces that give users direct control and perdictability. These […]
Research and Advances

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 to get to your email, but it pops up with yet another start-up window to set some option that is not necessary to configure now. You exhale, frown, mutter something under your breath, and proceed to type with a little more speed and intensity.

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