Free seminar/webinar from Stanford.
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Stanford Seminar on People, Computers, and Design (CS547)
http://hci.stanford.e
du/seminar
Gates B03 (NEC Classroom) and SITN, 12:30-2:00pm PDT (UTC
19:30)
Video: http://scpd.stanford.edu/scpd/students/courseList.asp
CS547
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Friday, February 9, 2007
Don Norman, Northwestern University and Nielsen-Norman
Group
http://www.jnd.org
The Design of Future Things: Cautious Cars and Cantankerous
Kitchens
Intelligent devices are entering our everyday lives in
interesting
and sometimes disconcerting ways. In this talk, Don Norman
discuses
his latest book , The Design of Future Things (to be
published in
October). The book discuses the increasing intrusion of
intelligent
devices into the automobile and home with both expected
benefits and
unexpected dangers.
The aviation industry knows a lot about the dangers of
overautomation. Similarly, the HCI community has learned a
lot about
appropriate design. The issues here, however, are different:
most
studies of automation and intelligent devices look at
industrial
settings, with well-trained operators who do the same
operations over
and over again. In the home and automobile, we have
ill-trained
operators, with little understanding (and little interest in
gaining
understanding), and in the case of the automobile, who may
have to
react in seconds. In the home, poor design decisions may
simply lead
to annoyance and frustration. But with the automobile,
significant
safety issues are involved. All the usual suspects are
here: issues
of privacy, the perceived benefits, costs, safety, control,
and
trust. Expectations and perceived versus real needs. These
are
important areas for research and product innovation.
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Don Norman is cofounder of the Nielsen Norman Group, an
executive
consulting firm that helps companies produce human-centered
products
and services, Professor at Northwestern University and Prof.
Emeritus
of the University of California, San Diego. He has been Vice
President of Apple Computer and an executive at Hewlett
Packard. He
was President of the Learning Systems division of UNext, an
early,
online education company.
He serves on many advisory boards, such as Chicago's
Institute of
Design and Encyclopedia Britannica. He is a fellow of many
organizations, including the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences.
He has received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer
& Cognitive
Science from the Franklin Institute (Philadelphia), honorary
degrees
from the University of Padova (Italy) and the Technical
University of
Delft (the Netherlands), the "Lifetime Achievement
Award" from
SIGCHI, the professional organization for Computer-Human
Interaction,
the Mental Health award for contributions to Business from
Psychology
Today, and the Taylor Award for outstanding contribution to
the field
of Applied Experimental and Engineering Psychology from the
American
Psychological Association.
He is well known for his books "The Design of Everyday
Things" and
"Emotional Design." Business Week called The
Invisible Computer "the
bible of the "post PC thinking." He is now writing
"The Design of
Future Things," discussing the role that automation
plays in such
everyday places as the home, and automobile. He lives at
www.jnd.org.
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Next Week: - February 16, 2007 - Tina Blaine, HCI Institute
Carnegie-Mellon University
http://www.jamodrum.
net/bio.html
Designing Interfaces for Musical Experience
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