Schedule and Readings

Introduction to this Course: What is an Interaction Technique and Why are they Important?

Slides for Lecture 1

Required Reading:

• IxT Book, chapter 1

Recommended Readings:

• Brad A. Myers. "Challenges of HCI Design and Implementation," ACM Interactions. vol. 1, no. 1. January, 1994. pp. 73-83. pdf

Pointing Devices and Fitts' Law

Slides for Lecture 2

Required Reading:

• IxT Book, chapter 4

Recommended Readings:

• Card, S.K., English, W.K., & Burr, B.J. Evaluation of mouse, rate-controlled isometric joystick, step keys, and text keys for text selection on a CRT. Ergonomics, 21(8), pp. 601-613. 1978. pdf
• Brad A. Myers, Rishi Bhatnagar, Jeffrey Nichols, Choon Hong Peck, Dave Kong, Robert Miller, and A. Chris Long. "Interacting At a Distance: Measuring the Performance of Laser Pointers and Other Devices." Proceedings CHI'2002: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 20-25, 2002. pp. 33-40. pdf.
• Video of guest lecture by Ted Selker to 2014 class about the IBM Pointing Stick: Slides for his lecture, link to the video shown during the talk, and Panopto video of the talk
• Wobbrock, J. O., Shinohara, K. and Jansen, A. (2011). The effects of task dimensionality, endpoint deviation, throughput calculation, and experiment design on pointing measures and models. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '11). Vancouver, British Columbia (May 7-12, 2011). New York: ACM Press, pp. 1639-1648. ACM ref
• Soukoreff, R. W. and MacKenzie, I. S. (2004). Towards a standard for pointing device evaluation, perspectives on 27 years of Fitts' law research in HCI. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 61 (6), pp. 751-789. ScienceDirect

Start on Homework 1

History of Personal Computers and their Interaction Techniques

Slides for Lecture 3

Required Reading:

• IxT Book, chapter 2

Recommended Readings:

• Brad A. Myers. "A Brief History of Human Computer Interaction Technology." ACM interactions. Vol. 5, no. 2, March, 1998. pp. 44-54. pdf
• Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad Demo, 20:42 min Video, 1964. mpg download or Youtube
• Bill Moggridge, "Designing Interactions" excerpt #1, pp. 17 – 111. (on Canvas--only accessible to class members)
• William L. Bewley, Teresa L. Roberts and William L. Verplank David Schroit. “Human Factors Testing in the Design of Xerox's 8010 'Star' Office Workstation,” Proceedings SIGCHI'83: Human Factors in Computing Systems, Boston, MA, Dec, 1983. pp. 72-77. ACM ref
• Ivan E. Sutherland. “Sketchpad: A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System,” AFIPS Spring Joint Computer Conference, 1963. pp. 329-346. ACM ref
• Larry Tesler. “The Smalltalk Environment,” Byte Magazine. Aug, 1981. 6(8). pp. 90-147. archive.org version
• Gregg Williams. “The Lisa Computer System,” Byte Magazine. Feb, 1983. 8(2). pp. 33-50. archive.org version

History of Handhelds (PDAs to Smartphones) and their Interaction Techniques

Slides for Lecture 4

Required Readings:

• IxT Book, chapter 3

Recommended Readings:

• Bill Moggridge, "Designing Interactions" excerpt #2, pp. 180-235. (on Canvas--only accessible to class members)
• Eric Bergman, Ed. Information Appliances and Beyond. San Francisco, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. 2000. excerpt, pp. 82-129. (on Canvas--only accessible to class members)
• GO Corporation - Introducing PenPoint (1991), 15:20 video on YouTube

Mon. January 24, 2022 - Semester Course Add Deadline

Deep Dive: Menus

Slides for Lecture 5
Interesting menus found by 2019 students

Required Readings:

• IxT Book, chapter 7
• All the Widgets video, vimeo or YouTube or download wmv file (600MB), sections: "Menus", "Palettes", "Buttons", "Radio buttons", "Checkboxes" (00:17:16 - 01:01:14), and "Forms and dialog boxes" (01:21:31 - 01:30:05)

Recommended Readings:

• J. Callahan, D. Hopkins, M. Weiser, and B. Shneiderman. 1988. An empirical comparison of pie vs. linear menus. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '88), J. J. O'Hare (Ed.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 95-100. ACM ref or local pdf.
• Benjamin B. Bederson. 2000. "Fisheye menus". In Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST '00). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 217-225. ACM DL
• Gordon Kurtenbach and William Buxton. 1993. "The limits of expert performance using hierarchic marking menus." In Proceedings of the INTERACT '93 and CHI '93 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '93). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 482-487. ACM DL
  
• Gordon Kurtenbach and William Buxton. 1994. "User learning and performance with marking menus." In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '94), Beth Adelson, Susan Dumais, and Judith Olson (Eds.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 258-264. ACM DL
  

Methods for Designing and Evaluating Interaction Techniques

Slides for Lecture 6

Required Readings:

• IxT Book, chapter 21

Recommended Readings:

• Scott R. Klemmer, Bjorn Hartmann, and Leila Takayama. 2006. How bodies matter: five themes for interaction design. In Proceedings of the 6th conference on Designing Interactive systems (DIS '06). ACM, pp. 140-149. ACM DL

Homework 1 Due.
Start on Homework 2

Deep Dive: Scrolling and One-Dimensional Input

Slides for Lecture 7

Required Readings:

• IxT Book, chapter 5
• All the Widgets video, vimeo or YouTube or download wmv file (600MB), sections: "Scroll bars" (00:02:30 - 00:17:16)

Recommended Readings:

• William Buxton and Brad Myers. "A Study in Two-Handed Input," Proceedings SIGCHI '86: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Boston, MA. April 13-17, 1986. pp. 321-326. pdf or html and video.
• Brad Myers, Kin Pou ("Leo") Lie and Bo-Chieh ("Jerry") Yang, "Two-Handed Input Using a PDA and a Mouse", Proceedings CHI'2000: Human Factors in Computing Systems. April 1-6, 2000. The Hague, The Netherlands. pp. 41-48. local pdf.

Optional Readings:

• IxT Book, chapter 6: Percent Done Progress Indicators
• Brad A. Myers. "The Importance of Percent-Done Progress Indicators for Computer-Human Interfaces," Proceedings SIGCHI '85: Human Factors in Computing Systems. San Francisco, CA. Apr. 14-18, 1985. pp. 11-17. Reprinted as Datapro Report no. AS40-300-301, Dec, 1986. pdf. See also YouTube video or local mp4.

Forms, Property Sheets and Dialog Boxes

Slides for Lecture 8

Required Readings:

• IxT Book, chapter 9
• All the Widgets video, vimeo or YouTube or download wmv file (600MB), sections: "Forms and dialog boxes" (1:21:31 - 1:30:05).

Guest Lecture #1: Bill Buxton, Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research

Video of Bill Buxton talk and automatic transcript

Bill Buxton is a relentless advocate for innovation, design, and - especially - the appropriate consideration of human values, capacity, and culture in the conception, implementation, and use of new products and technologies.  This is reflected in his research, teaching, talks, and writing - including his past column on design and innovation for BusinessWeek.com, and his 2007 book, Sketching User Experiences. He is a Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research, where he has been employed since December 2005. He was on the faculty in the Computer Science Department at the University of Toronto, where he continues to have an Adjunct Professor appointment. From 1987-89, Buxton was in Cambridge England, helping establish a new satellite of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (EuroPARC). From 1989-94 he split his time between Toronto, where he was Scientific Director of the Ontario Telepresence Project, and Palo Alto, California, where he was a consulting researcher at Xerox PARC. From 1994 until December 2002, he was Chief Scientist of Alias|Wavefront, (now part of Autodesk) and from 1995, its parent company SGI Inc.
[Photo credit: Ben Shneiderman, at CHI conference award banquet]

Past to Future: Text Entry for Computers and Handhelds, and Text Editing

Slides for Lecture 10

Required Readings:

• IxT Book, chapter 8
• All the Widgets video, vimeo or YouTube or download wmv file (600MB), sections: "Selecting text" (01:01:43 - 01:13:26) and "Entering input" (01:13:26 - 01:21:31)

Recommended Readings:

• Jacob O. Wobbrock and Brad A. Myers. 2006. Analyzing the input stream for character- level errors in unconstrained text entry evaluations. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 13, 4 (December 2006), pp. 458-489. ACM DL or local pdf.
  Note: You can skip section 4 -- you do not need to read about the algorithms.
  
• Video of guest lecture by Larry Tesler to 2014 class about the invention of copy and paste and other text editing ideas.

Homework 2 Due.
Start on Homework 3

Text Entry and Editing, continued.

Deep Dive: Creating, Selecting And Manipulating Objects

Slides for Lecture 12

Required Readings:

• IxT Book, chapter 10
• All the Widgets video, vimeo or YouTube or download wmv file (600MB), sections: "Selecting graphical objects", "Editing graphical objects" (01:30:07 - 01:39:15)

Recommended Readings:

• Brad A. Myers. (1998) "Scripting Graphical Applications by Demonstration," Proceedings CHI'98. pp. 534-541. ACM DL, or local pdf, and video or YouTube (3:09). (Topaz)

Deep Dive: Desktop Metaphors, Icons, Window Managers

Slides for Lecture 13

Required Readings:

• IxT Book, chapter 11
• All the Widgets video, vimeo or YouTube or download wmv file (600MB), sections: "Introduction" (0:00 - 02:30), and "Icons and windows", "Manipulating windows", "Conclusion and credits" (1:39:15 - 2:14:54 (end)).
  

Recommended Readings:

• Brad A. Myers. “A Taxonomy of User Interfaces for Window Managers,” IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. Sept, 1988. 8(5). pp. 65-84. IEEE DL or local pdf
• Video of guest lecture by David Canfield Smith to 2014 class about the invention of icons and the Star UI: Slides for his lecture and Panopto video of the talk
• Video of guest lecture by Norm Cox to 2016 class about the graphic design of the icons: Slides for his talk (pdf), and Panopto video of the talk
• Video of guest lecture by Tandy Trower to 2016 class about the design of Microsoft Windows: Slides for his lecture and Panopto video of the talk (but the audio is a little garbled).
• Sara A. Bly and Jarrett K. Rosenberg. “A Comparison of Tiled and Overlapping Windows,” Human Factors in Computing Systems, Proceedings SIGCHI'86. Boston, Mass, Apr, 1986, 1986. pp. 101-106. ACM DL or pdf
• David Canfield Smith, DigiBarn TV: Xerox Star 8010 Final Demo - Live Demo, YouTube Video

Homework 3 Due.
Start on Homework 4

Mid Term Exam in class
(see information about the midterm)

(Mid-Semester Grades Due by 4:00 p.m. on Mon. March 7, 2022)

Past to Future: Interactions in 3D, Virtual and Augmented Reality, and Games

Slides for Lecture 15

Required Readings:

• IxT Book, chapter 12

Recommended Readings:

• Rick Carey, Tony Fields, Andries van Dam, Dan Venolia. 1994. Why is 3-D interaction so hard and what can we really do about it? (panel). In Proceedings SIGGRAPH '94. ACM, pp. 492-493. ACM DL.
• Michael Chen, S. Joy Mountford, and Abigail Sellen. 1988. A study in interactive 3-D rotation using 2-D control devices. In Proceedings SIGGRAPH '88. ACM pp. 121-129. ACM DL.
• Steve Swink. Game Feel. CRC Press. Chapters 1, 6, 7 and 15. (on Canvas--only accessible to class members)
  (Note: Game Feel is written by a game designer rather than a traditional HCI practitioner, so he doesn't practice the formal study of interaction techniques. Think about how our class techniques and his approach relate as you're reading. Because he is a game designer, he may reference video games in passing with which you may be unfamiliar. If you're interested, YouTube is filled with demo videos that can show you what the game looks like and how it plays, especially if you add "review" or "gameplay" to your search.)
• Video of Game Controllers from 1972 to 2006. http://youtu.be/Q-03HmcjOPs
• Video about the camera design of Super Mario World (2D predecessor to
  Super Mario 64): http://youtu.be/TCIMPYM0AQg

Ubiquitous Computing, Physical Widgets, Sensors, Wearables, and Internet of Things (IOT)

Slides for Lecture 16

Required Readings:

• IxT Book, chapter 13

Recommended Readings:

• Saul Greenberg and Chester Fitchett. 2001. Phidgets: easy development of physical interfaces through physical widgets. In Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST '01). ACM, pp. 209-218. ACM DL or local pdf
  NOTE: only pages 209-211 and 215-218 (not the architecture)
• Hiroshi Ishii, Dávid Lakatos, Leonardo Bonanni, and Jean-Baptiste Labrune. 2012. Radical atoms: beyond tangible bits, toward transformable materials. interactions 19, 1 (January 2012), 38-51. ACM DL

Past to Future: Gesture Recognition

Slides for Lecture 17

Required Readings:

• IxT Book, chapter 14
• Video: Dean Rubine. 1992. Combining gestures and direct manipulation. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '92), ACM, actual video or (ACM Ref for description)

Recommended Readings:

• Jacob O. Wobbrock, Andrew D. Wilson, and Yang Li. 2007. Gestures without libraries, toolkits or training: a $1 recognizer for user interface prototypes. In Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST '07). 159-168. ACM DL or local pdf
• Jacob O. Wobbrock, Meredith Ringel Morris, and Andrew D. Wilson. 2009. User-defined gestures for surface computing. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '09). ACM, 1083-1092. ACM DL or local pdf.
  
• Paper: Dean Rubine. 1991. Specifying gestures by example. In Proceedings of the 18th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques (SIGGRAPH '91). ACM, 329-337. ACM DL

Homework 4 Due.
Start on Final Project

Interaction Techniques for People with Disabilities

Slides for Lecture 18

Required Readings:

• IxT Book, chapter 17

Recommended Readings:

• Shaun K. Kane, Jeffrey P. Bigham, and Jacob O. Wobbrock. 2008. "Slide rule: making mobile touch screens accessible to blind people using multi-touch interaction techniques." In Proceedings of the 10th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility (Assets '08). ACM, pp. 73-80. ACM DL.
• W3C, "Introduction to Web Accessibility," on-line
• Brad A. Myers, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Sunny Yang, Brian Yeung, Jeffrey Nichols, and Robert Miller. "Using Handhelds to Help People with Motor Impairments", Fifth International ACM SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies; ASSETS 2002. July 8-10, 2002. Edinburgh, Scotland. pp. 89-96. local pdf

Topics for Final Projects due

Past to Future: Various Undo Models, Interaction Histories, and Macro Recording

Slides for Lecture 19

Required Readings:

• IxT Book, chapter 15

Recommended Readings:

• Brad A. Myers. (1998) "Scripting Graphical Applications by Demonstration," Proceedings CHI'98. pp. 534-541. ACM DL, or local pdf, and video or YouTube (3:09). (Topaz)
• Kurlander, D. and Feiner, S. Editable Graphical Histories. Proc. 1988 IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages. (Pittsburgh, Oct. t0-12, 1988). 127-134. IEEE DL, or pdf and video (2:42)

Form Final Project Groups due

Guest Lecture #2: Gregg Vanderheiden, Professor, University of Maryland, College Park; Founder and Director Emeritus, Trace R&D Center, UMD

Video of Gregg Vanderheiden talk and automatic transcript

Gregg Vanderheiden is the founder and Director Emeritus of the Trace R&D Center and a Professor in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. He has been active in the field of technology and disability for 50 years and was a pioneer in the field of Augmentative Communication (a term originating from his writings), assistive technology and computer access. Access features developed by Dr. Vanderheiden and the Trace Center team can be found in every computer and mobile device internationally (Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS and Android) the Library of Congress talking book player, ATM, voting machines and kiosks across the country and more. He created the first Web Accessibility guidelines in 1995 and co-chaired the Working Group for WCAG 1 and 2. He is a past President and Fellow of RESNA, Founding Fellow of American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and Fellow in the Human Factors and Ergonomics society.

Past to Future: Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Interaction Techniques

Slides for Lecture 21

Required Readings:

• IxT Book, chapter 18

Two-page proposal for Final Projects due. Postponed until Thursday, Apr. 7

Tuesday,
Apr. 12, 2022

Formal and Informal Models, Metaphors and Patterns for the Design of Interaction Techniques

Slides for Lecture 22

Required Readings:

• IxT Book, chapter 19

Recommended Readings:

• William Buxton, "Lexical and Pragmatic Considerations of Input Structures," Computer Graphics, January, 1983, (17)1, pp. 31-37.  ACM DL  or local html.
• Brad A. Myers. 1990. A new model for handling input. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 8, 3 (July 1990), pp. 289-320. ACM DL or local pdf.

Anonymized Video of Julia Schwarz's talk and automatic transcript

Required Readings:

• Introducing Microsoft HoloLens 2
• HoloLens 2 Live Demo at MWC Barcelona
• HoloLens 2 Feature Overview
• HoloLens 2 Wikipedia Page

Optional Readings:

• MRTK-Unity Developer Documentation - Mixed Reality Toolkit | Microsoft Docs
• Holodevelopers Slack

Interim Reports on Final Projects due

Tools and Models for Using and Implementing Interaction Techniques

Slides for Lecture 24

Required Readings:

• IxT Book, chapter 20

Recommended Readings:

• Brad Myers, Scott E. Hudson, and Randy Pausch, "Past, Present and Future of User Interface Software Tools," ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction. March, 2000. Vol. 7, no. 1. pp. 3-28. ACM ref or local pdf

Legal Issues Around Interaction Techniques such as Patents

Slides for Lecture 25

Required Readings:

• IxT Book, chapter 22

Recommended Readings:

• Brad A. Myers, "Legal and Intellectual Property Issues," sidebar in The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experience, by: Rex Hartson & Pardha S. Pyla. Waltham, MA: Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann, 2012. pp. 851-852. (on Canvas--only accessible to class members)
• Jacob O. Wobbrock and Brad A. Myers. "Using Edges and Corners for Character Input." US Patent No. 7,729,542, issued June 1, 2010, Filed March 29, 2004, claiming priority to provisional filed April 4, 2003. pdf

Final Project Presentations 1

Groups Presenting:

• 2) Summary of guest lectures
• 3) Wiki Page Authors
• 4) Chinese Text Entry
• 5) 3D Pointing

Final Project Presentations 2

Groups Presenting:

• 1) Cross-device
• 6) Alarmethod
• 7) Pinch

Final Slides for Lecture 27

Everyone please fill out the Custom Course Survey and the official CMU course evaluation.
(Last day of classes = April 29, 2022.)
(SIGCHI Conference, April 30-May 6)

Take-home final test on second half of the course

Everyone please fill out the the peer evaluation for your project.

(Final grades due by 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 12, 2022 for graduating students)