Human-Computer Interaction in the New Millennium (Paperback)

~ John M. Carroll (Author)

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(Pearson Education) A collection of selected writings presenting a view of the motivation that is creating innovation in human-computer interaction. Covers the influence of cognitive science on HCI, new interfaces and methodologies for collaboration, social and societal impacts, and other subjects. DLC: Human-Computer interaction.

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Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has been a focal area for innovative multidisciplinary computing research and development during the past twenty-five years. As we contemplate the dawn of a new millennium, we should ask where the HCI project is going. What are the critical technical challenges and opportunities that will define HCI research and development work beyond the year 2000? What are the approaches that will sustain and enhance the vitality and effectiveness of HCI in this new era? How will HCI be different from and similar to what it is today? These questions can be addressed with respect to HCI taken broadly, or with respect to specific subdomains within HCI.

In spring of 1998, Jonathan Grudin, editor of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, and Tom Moran, editor of Human-Computer Interaction, suggested a coordinated special issue project celebrating "Human-Computer Interaction in the New Millennium." Since I serve on both editorial boards, and perhaps more importantly, since I was unable to attend this meeting, I was asked to coordinate the project.

In the late spring an initial call for papers was circulated for the Transactions. About 50 research groups expressed initial interest, and in the end, 30 papers were submitted for the January 1999 deadline. Thirteen associate editors of the Transactions--Joelle Coutaz, Paul Dourish, Wayne Gray, Jim Hollan, Scott Hudson, Hiroshi Ishii, Robert Jacob, Sirkka Jarvenpaa, Allan MacLean, Brad Myers, Bonnie Nardi, Randy Pausch, and I--helped to manage the review process. The result was a double special issue of the Transactions in March and June of 2000. The ten papers from that double special issue are included here, with some revision to make them briefer and more accessible to a larger audience.

In February 1999, the Human-Computer Interaction Consortium held a workshop on research visions and directions for the new millennium. A special issue of the Human-Computer Interactions was organized from the papers presented at this workshop. It was edited by Wendy Kellogg, Clayton Lewis, and Peter Polson. The five papers from that special issue are also included here. Human-Computer Interactions has a tradition of presenting rather lengthy and comprehensive papers. I thank this group of authors in particular for heroic revision efforts--in a couple cases, excellent papers were cut to less than half their original length, and their excellence was preserved!

I think both of the journal special issue projects were highly successful. But journal projects are always limited by what papers happen to be submitted. I solicited 14 papers in addition to the 15 special issue papers from the two journals, to help balance content, though frankly, even 29 papers cannot begin to cover the scope of human-computer interaction. I thank this group of authors for writing to my half-baked specifications with such creativity and good nature.

John M. Carroll
Department of Computer Science
Center for Human-Computer Interaction
Virginia Tech

0201704471P04182001

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• Paperback: 752 pages
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1ST edition (August 18, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201704471
• ISBN-13: 978-0201704471
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.7 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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