2. Faculty Summit 2005: Next Generation User Interfaces and Platforms Steven M. Drucker Mira Dontcheva George Petschnigg Next Media Group Microsoft Research Steven M. Drucker Mira Dontcheva George Petschnigg Next Media Group Microsoft Research

3. Overview: Importance of prototyping new interfaces: Exploit new capabilities Deal with new problems Explore interfaces through iteration Demonstrations of ideas Media Browser: old, but sets the stage (w/ Curtis Wong, Steve Glenner, Asta Roseway and Steve De Mar) Time Quilt: dealing with large, unlabeled collections (w/ David Huynh, Patrick Baudisch, Curtis Wong) v4v: moving to different domains (w/ Mira Dontcheva and Michael Cohen) Rapid prototyping in Avalon (w/ Georg Petschnigg) Importance of prototyping new interfaces: Exploit new capabilities Deal with new problems Explore interfaces through iteration Demonstrations of ideas Media Browser: old, but sets the stage (w/ Curtis Wong, Steve Glenner, Asta Roseway and Steve De Mar) Time Quilt: dealing with large, unlabeled collections (w/ David Huynh, Patrick Baudisch, Curtis Wong) v4v: moving to different domains (w/ Mira Dontcheva and Michael Cohen) Rapid prototyping in Avalon (w/ Georg Petschnigg)

4. Current Software Development “Projects get a green light right at the start, and go directly to engineering. The next phase is when they ship—usually late, with bugs, over budget and missing functionality.“ Engineering Sales Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Usage-Centered Design.Portsmouth, NH, 26-29 October 2003, pp. 1-15. http://www.foruse.com/2003/ Bill Buxton: www.billbuxton.com www.billbuxton.com “… demonstrable myth that we know what we want at the start, and how to get it, and therefore build our process assuming that we will take an optimal, direct path to get there. Nonsense … the sooner we make errors and detect and fix them, the less (not more) the cost.”

5. The Role Of Design From Bill Buxton: www.billbuxton.com www.billbuxton.com Engineering Sales “Inserting an explicit design process at the front end, prior to green lighting the project. The process is represented as a funnel, since the number of concepts to emerge is always anticipated to be fewer than enter.” Design

6. Components Of Design Iterative Design Pick Evaluate Cull Novel Experiences SketchesStoryboardsVideosPrototypesEvaluation Adapted from Bill Buxton: www.billbuxton.com www.billbuxton.com

7. Filtering Through Facets And Metadata (And Clustering) Media Browser Filter along keywords, analyzed metadata, temporal clusters. Allow easy tag assignment. Preview changes. Challenges: scaling to large numbers, concise representation of information. Faceted browsing used a great deal. Media Browser Filter along keywords, analyzed metadata, temporal clusters. Allow easy tag assignment. Preview changes. Challenges: scaling to large numbers, concise representation of information. Faceted browsing used a great deal. DEMO Drucker, S. C. Wong, A. Roseway, S. Glenner, S. De Mar, MediaBrowser: Reclaiming the Shoebox. in Proceedings of AVI2004, Gallipoli, Italy, 2004. MediaBrowser: Reclaiming the ShoeboxMediaBrowser: Reclaiming the Shoebox

8. Clustering And Representing Clusters TimeQuilt: Use temporal clustering to create groups. Represent groups with individual thumbnails. Allow rapid transitions between with and without thumbnails. TimeQuilt: Use temporal clustering to create groups. Represent groups with individual thumbnails. Allow rapid transitions between with and without thumbnails. DEMO Huynh, D., Drucker, S., Baudisch, P., Wong, C. Time Quilt: Scaling up Zoomable Photo Browsers for Large, Unstructured Photo Collections. CHI 2005. Portland, OR. Apr. 2005 Time Quilt: Scaling up Zoomable Photo Browsers for Large, Unstructured Photo Collections

9. v4v: A Viewer For Viewers Allow viewers to browse and annotate presentations at their own pace Use clustering and stacks to help users organize a presentation Examine ways of keeping track of presenter Allow viewers to browse and annotate presentations at their own pace Use clustering and stacks to help users organize a presentation Examine ways of keeping track of presenter Dontcheva, Drucker and Cohen. v4v: a viewer for viewers. Submitted to DUX ‘2005 conference

10. Rapid Prototyping With Avalon Ideation with pen and paper Mockups in 3D Studio Max Scripting and interaction in Avalon Ideation with pen and paper Mockups in 3D Studio Max Scripting and interaction in Avalon

15. Conclusion A quick look at some uses for advanced interface techniques See http://research.microsoft.com/~sdrucker for others and videoshttp://research.microsoft.com/~sdrucker Thanks to everybody who worked on these: Curtis Wong, Steve Glenner, Asta Roseway, Steve De Mar, David Huynh, Patrick Baudisch, Mira Dontcheva, Michael Cohen and Georg Petschnigg Questions? A quick look at some uses for advanced interface techniques See http://research.microsoft.com/~sdrucker for others and videoshttp://research.microsoft.com/~sdrucker Thanks to everybody who worked on these: Curtis Wong, Steve Glenner, Asta Roseway, Steve De Mar, David Huynh, Patrick Baudisch, Mira Dontcheva, Michael Cohen and Georg Petschnigg Questions?

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