05-830, Advanced User Interface Software, Fall, 2004

• The schedule and assignments are tentative and subject to change.
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• The Readings are due on the date noted.
• Nielsen Text = Jakob Nielsen. "Usability Engineering". Boston: Academic Press, Inc. 1993. ISBN 0-12-518406-9 (paperback) or ISBN 0-12-518405-0 (hardcover). 
• To see about a topic for which there are not yet slides, maybe see the corresponding lecture in last time's schedule

 

Tue Aug 31	Course organization; Why are user interfaces hard to design and implement? and Types of User Interfaces PowerPoint Slides for Lecture 1 Required Readings: Brad A. Myers. "Challenges of HCI Design and Implementation," ACM Interactions. vol. 1, no. 1. January, 1994. pp. 73-83. ACM DL Reference. Discusses why user interfaces are important, and why they are hard to design and implement. Brad A. Myers. "A Brief History of Human Computer Interaction Technology." ACM interactions. Vol. 5, no. 2, March, 1998. pp. 44-54. ACM DL Reference. Recommended Readings: Brad A. Myers and Mary Beth Rosson. "Survey on User Interface Programming," Proceedings SIGCHI'92: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Monterrey, CA, May 3-7, 1992. pp. 195-202. ACM DL Reference Discusses what percent of the time and effort went into the UI part. (Outdated). Nielsen Text: Chapters 1,  2 and 3 Amusing Reading: Tyson R. Henry, Scott E. Hudson, Andrey K. Yeatts, Brad A. Myers and Steven Feiner; "A nose gesture interface device: extending virtual realities," Proceedings of the fourth annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, UIST'1991, Pages 65 - 68. ACM DL Reference. Start on Homework 1
Thu Sep 2	Overview of UI Software and Tools PowerPoint Slides for Lecture 2 PowerPoint Slides for Past Present and Future of UIST. Required Readings: Brad A. Myers. "Graphical User Interface Programming," CRC Handbook of Computer Science and Engineering - 2nd Edition. Allen B. Tucker, editor in chief. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Inc., 2003. To appear. pdf. (This is a revision of Brad A. Myers. "User Interface Software Tools," ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. vol. 2, no. 1, March, 1995. pp. 64-103. ACM DL Reference) Brad A. Myers, Scott Hudson and Randy Pausch. "Past Present and Future of User Interface Software Tools," ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction, (Mar. 2000). Volume 7 , Issue 1. pp. 3-28. ACM DL Reference. (old postscript or Acrobat)
Tue Sep 7	In-Class presentations of Evaluations of UI Tools (Homework 1) Homework 1 Due Start on Homework 2
Thu Sep 9	Brad in all-day meeting; no class
Tue Sep 14	Basic Computer Graphics PowerPoint Slides for Lecture 3 Required Readings: New Foley & van Dam, pp. 25-40, 52-60 old Foley & van Dam, pp. 132-134 (color maps)
Thu Sep 16	Rosh Hashanah; no class
Tue, Sep 21	Other Output Models: structured graphics; display postscript, 3D PowerPoint Slides for Lecture 4 Required Readings: Brad A. Myers, Richard G. McDaniel, Robert C. Miller, Alan Ferrency,  Andrew Faulring, Bruce D. Kyle, Andrew Mickish, Alex Klimovitski, and Patrick Doane."The Amulet Environment: New Models for Effective User  Interface Software Development", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 23, no. 6. June, 1997. pp. 347-365. IEEE Explore Ref Abstract in html,  postscript. Optional Readings: Calder, P.R. and Linton, M.A. “Glyphs: Flyweight Objects for User Interfaces,” in  Proceedings UIST'90: ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. 1990. Snowbird, Utah: pp. 92-101. ACM DL Ref
Thu Sep 23	Window Manager Input Models PowerPoint Slides for Lecture 5
Tue Sep 28 (VL/HCC Conf.)	New toolkit input models: Garnet & Amulet PowerPoint Slides for Lecture 6 Required Readings: Brad A. Myers. "A New Model for Handling Input," ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Vol. 8, No. 3. July, 1990. pp. 289-320. ACM DL Reference. Brad A. Myers and David Kosbie. "Reusable Hierarchical Command Objects," Proceedings CHI'96: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Vancouver, BC, Canada. April 14-18, 1996. ACM DL Reference Brad A. Myers. "Scripting Graphical Applications by Demonstration," Proceedings CHI'98: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Los Angeles, CA, April 18-23, 1998. pp. 534-541. ACM DL Reference
Thu Sep 30	Guest Lecture by Scott Hudson and Jennifer Mankoff -- SubArctic and its input models PowerPoint Slides for guest Lecture Required Readings: Scott E. Hudson, Jennifer Mankoff, Ian Smith. "Extensible Input Handling in the subArctic Toolkit", submitted for publication. pdf Jennifer Mankoff, Scott E. Hudson, Gregory D. Abowd. "Providing integrated toolkit-level support for ambiguity in recognition-based interfaces". CHI'2000. pp. 368 - 375. ACM DL Reference. Optional Readings. The subArctic papers (which cover various specific topics) are: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/237091.237112 (ultra-lightweight constraints) http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/263407.263542 (debugging lenses) http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/263407.263537 (systematic output modification) http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/263407.263539 (styles) Also, the documentation for the toolkit (including the manual, JavaDoc, and source) might be useful: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hudson/teaching/05-631-f00/sub_arctic/ Another reference for Jennifer Mankoff's work is: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/354401.354407 (interaction techniques)
Tue Oct 5	Software Organization: Lexical-Syntax-Semantics, Seeheim Model, MVC, Object-Oriented Programming for UIs PowerPoint Slides for Lecture 7 Required Readings: Brad A. Myers, Dario A. Giuse, and Brad Vander Zanden. "Declarative Programming in a Prototype-Instance System: Object-Oriented Programming Without Writing Methods," Proceedings OOPSLA'92: ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications. October 18-22, 1992. Vancouver, BC, Canada.  SIGPLAN Notices, vol. 27, no. 10. pp. 184-200. ACM DL Reference. Optional Readings: William Buxton, "Lexical and Pragmatic Considerations of Input Structures," Computer Graphics, January, 1983, (17)1, pp. 31-37. (lexical, syntactic, semantic, etc.). [Not online] Mark Green, "Report on Dialogue Specification Tools," User Interface Management Systems, G. Pfaff, ed. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1985. pp. 9-20. (Seeheim model) Glenn Krasner and Stephen T. Pope, "A Cookbook for Using the Model-View-Controller User Interface Paradigm in Smalltalk-80", Journal of Object-Oriented Programming (JOOP). August-September, 1988. vol. 1, no. 3. pp. 26-49. Homework 2 Due Start on Homework 3
Thu Oct 7	Constraints PowerPoint Slides for Lecture 8 Required Readings: Brad Vander Zanden, Brad A. Myers, Dario Giuse and Pedro Szekely. "Integrating Pointer Variables into One-Way Constraint Models," ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. vol. 1, no. 2, June, 1994. pp. 161-213. ACM DL Reference Optional Readings: Brad Vander Zanden, "An Incremental Algorithm for Satisfying Hierarchies of Multi-way, Dataflow Constraints", ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, 18(1), January, 1996. pp. 30-72. ACM DL Reference Brad A. Myers, Robert C. Miller, Rich McDaniel, and Alan Ferrency, "Easily Adding Animations to Interfaces Using Constraints." ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST'96, November 6-8, 1996. Seattle, WA. pp. 119-128. ACM DL Reference (postscript)
Tue Oct 12	Guest Lecture by Scott Hudson -- Advanced Constraints Scott's Constraints PowerPoint Slides Required Readings: Scott E. Hudson. "Incremental attribute evaluation: a flexible algorithm for lazy update," ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, Volume 13 , Issue 3 (1991), Pages 315-341.  ACM DL Reference Bjorn N. Freeman-Benson, John Maloney and Alan Borning. "An incremental constraint solver," Communications of the ACM . Volume 33 , Issue 1 (1990). Pages 54-63. ACM DL Reference
Thu Oct 14	Interactive Tools: Prototypers (HyperCard, Director, Visual Basic), Interface Builders PowerPoint Slides for Lecture 9 Required Readings: James Lin, Michael Thomsen, and James A. Landay, "A Visual Language for Sketching Large and Complex Interactive Designs." In CHI Letters: Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2002, 2002. 4(1): pp. 307-314. ACM DL Ref See also the DENIM Video James Landay and Brad A. Myers. "Interactive Sketching for the Early Stages of User Interface Design," Proceedings CHI'95: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Denver, CO. May, 1995. pp. 43-50. (html) or ACM DL Ref Optional Readings: Brad A. Myers. "Separating Application Code from Toolkits:  Eliminating the Spaghetti of Call-Backs,"  ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology: UIST'91, Hilton Head, SC, Nov. 11-13, 1991. pp. 211-220. ACM DL Reference Walker, M., Takayama, L., and Landay, J. (2002) High-fidelity or low-fidelity, paper or computer medium? Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 46th Annual Meeting (in press).  PDF or HTML James A. Landay and Brad A. Myers. Just Draw It! Programming by Sketching Storyboards.   Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Technical Report, no. CMU-CS-95-199 and Human Computer Interaction Institute Technical Report CMU-HCII-95-106. November, 1995. html or PDF
Tue Oct 19 (ASSETS Conf.)	Toolkits: intrinsics, callbacks, resources, widget hierarchies, geometry management PowerPoint Slides for Lecture 10 Funny flash animation about using Java Grid Bag layout: http://madbean.com/blog/2004/17/totallygridbag.html
Thu Oct 21 (ASSETS Conf.)	UIMS Techniques: Menu trees, transition networks, grammars, Event Languages, HyperTalk, production systems, Declarative Languages PowerPoint Slides for Lecture 11 Required Readings: Mark Green, "A Survey of Three Dialogue Models," ACM Transactions on Graphics (5)3, Jul, 1986, pp 244-275. ACM DL Reference chapter 10 from Olsen's book: "Editing Dialog Models". Not Online. Optional readings: Robert J.K. Jacob,  "A Specification Language for Direct Manipulation Interfaces," ACM Transactions on Graphics, Oct, 1986, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 283-317. ACM DL Reference. Ralph D. Hill, "Supporting Concurrency, Communication and Synchronization in Human-Computer Interaction - The Sassafras UIMS", ACM Transactions on Graphics, Jul, 86, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 179-210. ACM DL Reference Philip J. Hayes, Pedro A. Szekely, and Richard A. Lerner, "Design Alternatives for User Interface Management Systems Based on Experience with COUSIN", Proceedings SIGCHI'85: Human Factors in Computing Systems, San Francisco, CA, Apr, 1985, pp. 169-175. ACM DL Reference. ACM DL Reference
Tue Oct 26	UIST Conference, Brad away
Thu Oct 28	MUM Conference, Brad away
Tue Nov 2	Model-based tools: Creating the UI Automatically PowerPoint Slides for Lecture 12 Required Readings: Dan R. Olsen, Jr., "A Programming Language Basis for User Interface Management," Proceedings SIGCHI'89, Austin, TX, Apr, 1989, pp. 171-176. ACM DL Reference Optional Readings: Brad Vander Zanden and Brad A. Myers,  "Automatic, Look-and-Feel Independent Dialog Creation for Graphical User Interfaces," Proceedings SIGCHI'90: Human Factors in Computing Systems.  Seattle, WA, April 1-5, 1990. pp. 27-34. ACM DL Reference [PDF not online] Pedro Szekely, Ping Luo, and Robert Neches, "Beyond Interface Builders: Model-Based Interface Tools, Proceedings INTERCHI'93: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 24-29, 1993. pp. 383-390. ACM DL Reference. Homework 3 Due Start on Homework 4
Thu Nov 4	New Model-Based Approaches: XWeb, XIML, iCrafter, Fabio Paterno's, Pebbles PUC Presented by Jeff Nichols PowerPoint Slides for Guest Lecture Required Readings: Jeffrey Nichols, Brad A. Myers, Michael Higgins, Joe Hughes, Thomas K. Harris, Roni Rosenfeld, Mathilde Pignol. "Generating Remote Control Interfaces for Complex Appliances." CHI Letters: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST'02, 27-30 Oct. 2002, Paris, France. pp. 161-170. pdf Angel Puerta, "A Model-Based Interface Development Environment", IEEE Software, 14(4), July/August 1997, pp. 41-47. pdf Optional Readings: Paterno, F., Mancini, C. & Meniconi, S. (1997), "ConcurTaskTrees: A Diagrammatic Notation for Specifying Task Models," in Proceedings of Interact-97, Sydney, Australia, pp.362-369. PDF Dan R. Olsen Jr., Sean Jefferies, Travis Nielsen, William Moyes and Paul Fredrickson. “Cross-modal Interaction using Xweb,” Proceedings UIST'00: ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, San Diego, CA, 2000. pp. 191-200. ACM DL Reference S. R. Ponnekanti, B. Lee, A. Fox, P. Hanrahan and T.Winograd. “ICrafter: A service framework for ubiquitous computing environments,” UBICOMP 2001, Atlanta, Georgia, 2001. pp. 56-75. URL
Tue Nov 9	Demonstrational Tools PowerPoint Slides for Lecture 13 Required Readings: Brad A. Myers, Richard G. McDaniel, and David S. Kosbie. "Marquise: Creating Complete User Interfaces by Demonstration," Proceedings INTERCHI'93: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 24-29, 1993. pp.  293-300. ACM DL Reference. (pdf) Richard G. McDaniel and Brad A. Myers, "Getting More Out Of Programming-By-Demonstration." Proceedings CHI'99: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Pittsburgh, PA, May 15-20, 1999. pp. 442-449. (Gamut) ACM DL Reference. postscript. Brad Myers, Richard McDaniel and David Wolber. "Programming by example: Intelligence in Demonstrational Interfaces," Communications of the ACM. March, 2000. vol. 43, no. 3. pp. 82-89. ACM DL Reference. Optional Readings: Brad A. Myers. "Creating User Interfaces Using Programming-by-Example, Visual Programming, and Constraints," ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. vol. 12, no. 2, April, 1990. pp. 143-177.  (Peridot) ACM DL Reference Brad A. Myers, Brad Vander Zanden, and Roger B. Dannenberg. "Creating Graphical Interactive Application Objects by Demonstration," ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology: UIST'89, Williamsburg, VA, Nov. 13-15, 1989. pp. 95-104. (Lapidary) ACM DL Reference.
Thu Nov 11	Component Techniques: Andrew, OLE, OpenDoc, Java Beans PowerPoint Slides for Lecture 14 Required Readings: Chad Vawter and Ed Roman, "J2EE vs. Microsoft.NET: A comparison of building XML-based web services," June 2001. http://www2.theserverside.com/resources/article.jsp?l=J2EE-vs-DOTNET Optional Readings: Andrew J. Palay, Fred Hansen, Mike Kazar, Mark Sherman, Maria Wadlow, Thomas Neuendorffer, Zalman Stern, Miles Bader, and Thom Peters. "The Andrew Toolkit - An Overview", Published in Proceedings USENIX Technical Conference, Winter 1988. Not Online. JavaBeans Web Pages (http://java.sun.com/products/javabeans/), especially, the JavaBeans tutorial: http://java.sun.com/products/javabeans/docs/spec.html (1997)
Tue Nov 16	Gestural Input Techniques, Handwriting Presented by Justin Weisz PowerPoint Slides for Lecture Required Readings: Dean Rubine, "Specifying Gestures by Example", Computer Graphics, Volume 25, Number 4, July 1991, p. 329-337. ACM DL Ref J. Allan Christian Long, J. A. Landay, and L. A. Rowe. " Implications for a gesture design tool." In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, pages 40-47. ACM Press, 1999. ACM DL Ref T. Westeyn, H. Brashear, A. Atrash, and T. Starner. "Georgia tech gesture toolkit: supporting experiments in gesture recognition." In Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Multimodal interfaces, pages 85-92. ACM Press, 2003. ACM DL Ref Optional Readings: J. A. Landay and B. A. Myers. "Extending an existing user interface toolkit to support gesture recognition." In INTERACT ’93 and CHI ’93 conference companion on Human factors in computing systems, pages 91-92. ACM Press, 1993. ACM DL Ref Topics: Note: not gestural interfaces, but tools available to programmers who want to create interfaces that use gestures and handwriting. "Providing Integrated Toolkit-Level Support for Ambiguity in Recognition-Based Interfaces", Jennifer Mankoff, Scott E. Hudson, Gregory D. Abowd, CHI 2000: CHI Letters, vol. 2, issue 1, p. 368-375. ACM DL Ref "SATIN: A Toolkit for Informal Ink-based Applications", Jason I. Hong and James A. Landay, UIST '00: CHI Letters, vol 2, issue 2, p. 63-72. ACM DL Ref "Extending an Existing User Interface Toolkit to Support Gesture Recognition", James A. Landay and Brad A. Myers, Proceedings of the 3rd annual ACM SIGGRAPH symposium on User interface software and technology, p. 112-122. ACM DL Ref Rubine's recognizer: Rubine, D. “Specifying Gestures by Example,” in Proceedings SIGGRAPH'91: Computer Graphics. 1991. Las Vegas, NV: 25. pp. 329-337. Agate in Garnet and Amulet: Landay, J.A. and Myers, B.A. “Extending an Existing User Interface Toolkit to Support Gesture Recognition,” in Adjunct Proceedings INTERCHI'93: Human Factors in Computing Systems. 1993. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: pp. 91-92. Handwriting and gesture recognizers in Newton, other early pen-based systems. TabletPC tools for handwriting and gesture recognition today: TabletPC SDK Any Microsoft or Java APIs? In-class grade sheet for student presenters
Thu Nov 18	Toolkits for Ubiquitous Computing, Context Awareness and CSCW Presented by Tara Matthews PowerPoint Slides for Lecture Readings: Moran, T.P. and Dourish, P., editors, 2001. Special Issue on Context-Aware Computing, Human-Computer Interaction. 16 (2-4), pp. 87-419. (Read the Introduction) Winograd, Terry. "Architectures for Context." HCI Journal, 2001. pdf Ballagas, R., Ringel, M., Stone, M., Borchers, J. iStuff: "A Physical User Interface Toolkit for Ubiquitous Computing Environments." CHI'2003. pp. 537-544. ACM DL Ref Possible Topics Ubicomp infrastructure iROS (iRoom -- Stanford) Overview: http://iwork.stanford.edu/pubs_temp.shtml Johanson, B., Fox, A., and Winograd, T., 2002. "The Interactive Workspaces Project: Experiences with Ubiquitous Computing Rooms", IEEE Pervasive Computing, special issue on "Integrated Pervasive Computing Environments" 1 (2), 67–74. http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/iwork-overview/. Johanson, B. and Fox, A., 2001. "Tuplespaces as Coordination Infrastructure for Interactive Workspaces". In: UbiTools'01–Workshop on Application Models and Programming Tools for Ubiquitous Computing (held in conjunction with the UbiComp'01). http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/eheap_ubitools01/ iStuff Ballagas, R., Ringel, M., Stone, M., Borchers, J. iStuff: A Physical User Interface Toolkit for Ubiquitous Computing Environments. CHI2003. 537-544. Phillips, W.G., 1999. Architectures for Synchronous Groupware, Tech. Rep.. http://phillips.rmc.ca/greg/pub/ Aura (CMU) http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aura/ maybe: Sousa, J. and Garlan, D., 2002. Aura: An Architectural Framework for User Mobility in Ubiquitous Computing Environments. In: Software Architecture: System Design, Development, and Maintenance (Proceedings of the 3rd Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture), pp. 29–43. Gaia (UIUC) http://choices.cs.uiuc.edu/gaia/ Best overall description: http://devius.cs.uiuc.edu/gaia/papers/GaiaSubmitted3.pdf, according to Manuel Roman at UIUC (maybe): Cerqueira, R. et al., 2001. Gaia: A Development Infrastructure for Active Spaces. In: UbiTools'01–Workshop on Application Models and Programming Tools for Ubiquitous Computing (held in conjunction with the UbiComp'01). http://choices.cs.uiuc.edu/UbiTools01/ Context-aware architectures Overview Moran, T.P. and Dourish, P., editors, 2001. Special Issue on Context-Aware Computing, Human-Computer Interaction. 16 (2–4), pp. 87–419. (Especially the introduction) Widget model: Context Toolkit Dey, A.K., Abowd, G.D., and Salber, D., 2001. A Conceptual Framework and a Toolkit for Supporting the Rapid Prototyping of Context-Aware Applications, Human-Computer Interaction. 16 (2–4), 97–166.  http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/dey01conceptual.html http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fce/contexttoolkit. Distributed services model: Context Fabric Hong, J.I. and J.A. Landay, An Infrastructure Approach to Context-Aware Computing. HCI Journal, 2001. 16(2-3). http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jasonh/publications/context-essay-final.pdf Hong, J.I. The Context Fabric: An Infrastructure for Context-Aware Computing. In Proc. Of Doctoral Consortium, CHI 2002. http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jasonh/publications/CHI2002-confab-final.pdf Blackboard model: iRoom + iStuff Winograd, T. Architectures for Context. HCI Journal, 2001. http://hci.stanford.edu/~winograd/papers/context/context.pdf Peripheral displays Peripheral Display Toolkit Matthews, Tara, Anind K. Dey, Jennifer Mankoff, Scott Carter, Tye Rattenbury. "A Toolkit for Managing User Attention in Peripheral Displays." In Proceedings of UIST 2004, pp. 247-256. http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~tmatthew/pubs/p321-matthews.pdf Evaluation Intille’s toolkit S.S. Intille, E. Munguia Tapia, J. Rondoni, J. Beaudin, C. Kukla, S. Agarwal, L. Bao, and K. Larson. Tools for studying behavior and technology in natural settings. In Proceedings of UBICOMP 2003. http://web.media.mit.edu/~intille/papers-files/IntilleTapiaRondoniETAL03.pdf   Groupware Architectures Phillips, W.G., 1999. Architectures for Synchronous Groupware, Tech. Rep.. http://phillips.rmc.ca/greg/pub/ Greenberg, S. and Roseman, M., 1999. Groupware Toolkits for Synchronous Work. In: Beaudouin-Lafon, M. (Ed.), Trends In CSCW'99, No. 7 in Trends in Software, John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY, USA, ch. 6, pp. 135–168. Roseman, M. and Greenberg, S., 1992. GROUPKIT: a groupware toolkit for building real-time conferencing applications. In: Proceedings of the conference on Computer-supported cooperative work, ACM Press, pp. 43–50. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/143457.143460 Anind Dey's PhD thesis system Dey, A., Mankoff, J., Abowd, G., and Carter, S.. Distributed Mediation of Ambiguous Context in Aware Environments. UIST2002, Paris, France, October 28-30, 2002. pp. 121-130. Dey's Ref Peter Tandler's system Oxygen? (MIT) EasyLiving? (Microsoft) -- geometry model as fundamental core Homework 4 Due Start on Homework 5
Tue Nov 23	Simple User Interface Toolkits: SUIT to Alice Presented by Peter Centgraf PowerPoint Slides for Lecture Readings: Ousterhout, J (1998). Scripting: Higher-Level Programming for the 21st Century. IEEE Computer, 31(3), pp 23-30. IEEE DL PDF, or citeseer ref Pausch, R., Conway, M., & DeLine, R. (1992). Lesson Learned from SUIT, the Simple User Interface Toolkit. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 10(4), 320-344. ACM DL Ref, or citeseer ref Conway, M., Audia, S., Burnette, T., Cosgrove, D., Christiansen, K., Deline, R., et al. (2000, Apr 1-6). Alice: Lessons Learned from Building a 3D System For Novices. Paper presented at the Proceedings of CHI 2000, The Hague, The Netherlands. ACM DL Ref, or citeseer ref Optional Readings: Morch, A., Stevens, G., et al. (2004) Component-based technologies for end-user development. Communications of the ACM, 47(9), pp. 59-62. ACM DL Ref Repenning, A & Ioannidou, A. (2004) Agent-based end-user development. Communications of the ACM, 47(9), pp. 43-46. ACM DL Ref Brad A. Myers, John F. Pane and Andy Ko, "Natural Programming Languages and Environments". Communications of the ACM. 47(9), pp. 47-52. ACM DL Ref Topics: Tcl/Tk SUIT Visual Basic Cocoa Alice End-User Programming for UIs. HANDS
Thur Nov 25	Thanksgiving holiday; no class
Tue Nov 30	Toolkits for physical objects Presented by Jack Li PowerPoint Slides for Lecture Required Readings: Saul Greenberg, Chester Fitchett. "Phidgets: easy development of physical interfaces through physical widgets," Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, November 11-14, 2001, Orlando, Florida. ACM DL Ref Scott R. Klemmer, Jack Li, James Lin, James A. Landay. "Papier-Mache: toolkit support for tangible input," Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Human factors in computing systems, p.399-406, April 24-29, 2004, Vienna, Austria. ACM DL Ref Lee, J.C.; Avrahami, D.; Hudson, S.E.; Forlizzi, J.; Dietz, P.H.; Leigh, D.L., "The Calder Toolkit: Wired and Wireless Components for Rapidly Prototyping Interactive Devices", Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), ISBN: 1-58113-787-7, pp. 167-175, August 2004. ACM DL Ref Optional Readings: Saul Greenberg, Michael Boyle. "Customizable physical interfaces for interacting with conventional applications," Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, October 27-30, 2002, Paris, France. pp. 31 - 40. ACM DL Ref Saul Greenberg, "Physical user interfaces: what they are and how to build them". UIST'04 invited survey. Abstract available as ACM DL Ref.   Full PowerPoint presentation as PDF file. Tangible Media Group at MIT's web page: http://tangible.media.mit.edu/. There are a lot of cool videos under their projects page. See especially: Topobo, I/O Brush, and mediaBlocks. Possible Topics: Any tools to create the Tangible UIs (TUIs) from MIT Media Lab Saul Greenberg's Phidgets Smart-Its for wireless computation for "everyday artefacts" Klemmer's Papier-Mache Johnny Lee's Calder, etc.
Thu Dec 2	Toolkit support for Games Presented by Josh Yelon, on the faculty at ETC, and author of "A Tale in the Desert II" Readings: "As for reading materials, there's a website "gamasutra.com" which is fantastic reading for any game developer or would-be game developer. I really like the articles by Ernest Adams, and the postmortems. But my talk will be easily understood regardless of whether you've done any advance reading. I recommend the website only because it's very enjoyable reading. Free registration is required." Possible Topics: programming for PCs programming for game consoles like Xbox, Playstation, GameBoy 3D programming tools
Tue Dec 7	Toolkits for Web Programming Presented by Uri Dekel PowerPoint Slides for Lecture Readings: Mike Morrison, Joline Morrison and Anthony Keys, "Integrating web sites and databases," Commun. ACM, 45(9), September 2002, pp. 81-86. ACM DL Ref Topics: Static web displays Base forms: HTML, XML, XHTML Parameterized display: CSS, XSL Special purpose static forms: VRML, GML Programmatically creating web pages Protocols: CGI Languages: Perl, PHP Server pages: JSP and Servlets, ASP Interactive web pages Scripting languages: JavaScript, VBScript Embedded applications: Java applets, ActiveX Flash Enterprise web applications J2EE vs. .NET "J2EE vs. Microsoft.NET: A comparison of building XML-based web services", By Chad Vawter and Ed Roman. June 2001. [Commissioned by Sun so may be biased towards J2EE] WSDL, Struts, Websphere, etc. Other Possible Topics: html, VoiceXML (another VoiceXML ref), VRML, etc. (reference for Markup) Cascading style sheets (CSS), also: CSS tutorial Secure Web pages: https, modssl PHP - scripting language for Apache web server WebISO - Kerberos CGI protocol, PERL libraries for CGI, etc.: perl.com, perl.org, perl archive, perl for Apache Database technologies: mysql javascript, vbscript, etc. Java applets "cookies" and how to use them in software XML, XSLTs (and another XSLT reference), Style sheets Flash Servers, server tools, load balancing DTDs, Xforms, SOAP, and other technologies for XML ASP, Java J2EE servlets, Java Server Pages (JSP), WSDL, UDDI, etc. .NET WAP, iMode, etc. for mobile devices IBM Websphere, BEA's WebLogic, Java Struts, CodeCharge by YesSoftware, etc.
Thu Dec 9	Plug-In architectures Presented by Jeff Stylos PowerPoint Slides for Lecture Readings: Johannes Mayer, Ingo Melzer, Franz Schweiggert, "Lightweight Plug-in-Based Application Development". Revised Papers from the International Conference NetObjectDays on Objects, Components, Architectures, Services, and Applications for a Networked World. pp. 87 - 102, 2002. html or pdf. John Grundy, Mark Apperley, Rick Mugridge, John Hosking. "Tool Integration, Collaboration and User Interaction Issues in Component-Based Software Architectures," Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems, November 23 - 26, 1998, ACM DL Ref or Local PDF. Brad A. Myers. The Case for an Open Data Model. Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Technical Report, no. CMU-CS-98-153 and Human Computer Interaction Institute Technical Report CMU-HCII-98-101. August, 1998.  pdf Recommended Reading (less researchy): Koray Guclu, "A First Look at Eclipse Plug-In Programming", http://www.developer.com/java/other/article.php/10936_3316241_2 Apple's Developer Connection, "Creating Plug-in Architectures", http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/LoadingCode/Tasks/UsingPlugins.html Peter Bojanic, "The Joy of XUL," http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xul/joy-of-xul.html Rick Parrish, "An introduction to XPCOM," http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/co-xpcom.html Other possible topics: Plug-ins for applications like Illustrator, Director, Photoshop, etc. Plug-ins for web pages: Flash, VRML, Alice player, Shockwave player, etc. Plug-ins for Office (COM, etc.) Plug-ins for Apple applications: AppleScript, etc. Final Questionnaire (html) or doc
Wed Dec 15	Homework 5 Due

December 23 Th, Final Grades Due by 6 p.m.

Possible topics for student presentations (in no particular order):

1. Toolkits for Ubiquitous Computing, Context Awareness (and CSCW?) -- Tara Matthews
2. Toolkits for CSCW
3. Toolkits for Phones, PDAs, Toys and Other Devices
4. Simple User Interface Toolkits: SUIT to Alice  --  Peter Centgraf
5. Toolkit support for Gestural Input Techniques, Handwriting -- Justin Weisz
6. Toolkits for supporting sound and speech recognition and generation
7. Toolkit support for games and 3D programming -- guest lecture
8. Tool support for Web programming: jsp, asp, css, database access, flash, javascript, vbscript, etc.  -- Uri Dekel
9. Toolkits for supporting vision, image recognition, pattern recognition from cameras as part of a user interface
10. Toolkits for physical objects: Saul Greenberg's Phidgets, Klemmer's Papier-Mache, Johnny Lee's Calder, etc. -- Jack Li
11. Plug-In architectures (Photoshop, Illustrator?, Mozilla, Office, Eclipse, COM, etc.) -- Jeff Stylos
12. Toolkits for intelligent and adaptive interfaces
13. Toolkit support for Usability Evaluation

Topics removed in 2004