05-440 / 05-640 Interaction Techniques (IxT)
Intended for Undergraduates, Masters and PhD students!
This course has been offered four times. Please see one of these for full information:
See the book based on these courses.
IxT IxT Short Course
I offered a 3 hour version of this course at the CHI'2024 conference.
IxT Inventors
Inventors we have interviewed for these courses include the following (alphabetical order) - see the individual schedules for links to their videos:
- Bill Atkinson - Apple marching ants, menu bar, selection lasso, fatBits, MacPaint, HyperCard
- Loren Brichter – pull to refresh
- Dan Bricklin - spreadsheets and "Bricklin's Demo"
- Bill Buxton - two-handed interaction, gestures
- Norm Cox – icons and other graphic design for Xerox Star, including "hamburger icon"
- Rob Haitani - Palm Pilot original UI
- Chris Harrison – future interactions
- Don Hopkins - pie menus
- Bruce Horn – original Macintosh features
- May-Li Khoe – Apple Force Touch, 3D Touch, and Taptic Engine technology (sorry, no video)
- Julia Schwarz – interaction techniques for augemented reality in the Microsoft HoloLens 2
- Ted Selker – IBM pointing stick
- David Canfield Smith – desktop metaphor, icons
- Larry Tesler – copy and paste, user-centered design
- Tandy Trower - Microsoft product manager for original windows, Taskbar
- Gregg Vanderheiden - assistive interactions
- Jake Wobbrock – new text entry speed measurements
- Shumin Zhai - mobile text entry and Google Pixel phone squeeze