Lecture Topics in HCI, by Saul Greenberg
Contents for:	All Topics	CPSC 481	SENG 609.05	Industrial Course

Visions of the Future

This section presents of several visions of the future of human computer interaction. Videos are shown and discussed in class. Readings are all optional.

Readings from Baecker Grudin Buxton and Greenberg

• Chapter 14: Cyberspace, p.897-906, gives an introduction to cyberspace as well as computing in the near future.
• The World Wide Web, p.907-912, introduces the web.
• Nature and origins of virtual environments, p.913-932, introduces virtual environments.
• The computer for the 21st century, p.933-940, introduces ubiquitous computing.

Videos

Active Badges are a personal locator system. This is a great video for discussing the ethics of privacy. I usually introduce the notion of a programmer's social responsibility, and ask them what they would do if they were asked to implement a system that could violate a person's privacy. Tactile manipulation of a digital desk is an intriguing prototype of a system that integrates a physical desk and a computer display. Virtuality, Inc. is a tongue in cheek look at virtual reality, and what it would be like if it were freely available. Also good for discussion issues in the social use of computers.

• The Active Badge System by Olivetti (1992, SGVR 87)
• Tactile manipulation of a digital desk (1992, SGVR 79)
• Virtuality, Inc. (1992, SGVR Issue 78)