open-ended interaction
Today's computers can perform
billions of operations a second and store lifetimes of data. These
capabilities create awesome potential for new tools that support and
enhance the creative process, yet this potential is often buried beneath
an interface that is sluggish and cumbersome to use. Users end up
wrestling with the interface, rather than their problem.
This research seeks to develop new models of user interaction that
explicitly recognize and support the messy, open-ended processes
characteristic of creative pursuits. To this end, we are focusing our
efforts on the lower-level interactions likely to be found in any
computer-based tool. For example, "undo" is a conceptually
simple, yet powerful capability that enables the user to experiment in any
application. Our goal is to develop user interface mechanisms that share
this same power and broad utility.
One of our first efforts has been the creation of Side Views,
a user interface mechanism that provides on-demand, persistent
previews of commands. Side Views encourages experimentation and
exploration of possibilities, without requiring users to modify their data.
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people
Michael Terry [mterry@cc.gatech.edu]
Elizabeth Mynatt [mynatt@cc.gatech.edu]
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funding
This research is funded by the Sloan Foundation. |
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publications
Terry, M., and Mynatt, E. (2002). "Recognizing creative needs in user interface
design." In the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition (CC 2002).
Loughborough, United Kingdom.
[pdf]
Terry, M. and Mynatt, E. (2002) "Side Views: Persistent, on-demand
previews for open-ended tasks." In the
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software
and Technology (UIST 2002). Paris, France. [pdf]
Terry, M. and Mynatt, E. (2002). "Supporting experimentation with
side views." In Communications of the ACM. [pdf]
Terry, M. & Mynatt, E.D. (2002). "Focusing on fundamental interactions to
enhance the creative experience." Position paper for a CHI 2002 workshop. [pdf]
Terry, M. (2001). "Task blocks: Tangible interfaces for creative
exploration." In Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems (CHI 2001). Seattle, Washington: ACM Press, pp. [pdf]
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project source
Source code for portions of this project is available for download
at http://jgimp.sourceforge.net.
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