Frontiers in Human-Centred Computing, Online Communities and Virtual Environment

by Earnshaw, R.; Guedj, Richard; Van Dam, Andries; Vince, John

• ISBN13: 9781852332389
• ISBN10: 1852332387
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This volume presents the results of a joint National Science Foundation and European Commission Workshop which was set up to identify the future key strategic research directions in the areas of human-centred interaction, online communities and virtual environments. A research agenda is proposed for each area. There is an urgent need to make interaction more centred around human needs and capabilities, and to consider the human environment in virtual environments and in other contextual information-processing activities. The overall goal is to make users more effective in their information or communication tasks by reducing learning times, speeding up performance, lowering error rates, facilitating retention, and increasing subjective satisfaction. Online communities is an area of rapid and dynamic growth with new kinds of interaction, behaviours, communication, and relationship to the world of users and information. Guidelines for basic user interface design need to be extended to accommodate these new technologies and interfaces to users. Fruitful lines of research investigation in all these areas are set out in this book.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	ix
Introduction	1	(12)
Rae Earnshaw
John A. Vince
1 Virtual Environments
Virtual Environments: a Review	13	(14)
John A. Vince
The Role of Virtual Humans in Virtual Environment Technology and Interfaces	27	(12)
Daniel Thalmann
Perceptual User Interfaces	39	(13)
Matthew Turk
Guidelines for Telepresence and Shared Virtual Environments	52	(15)
Rae Earnshaw
2 Augmented Reality and Mobile Computing
Mobile Augmented Reality: a Complex Human-Centered System	67	(13)
Simon Julier
Steven Feiner
Lawrence Rosenblum
Toward Tightly Coupled Human Interfaces	80	(19)
Thomas A. Furness III
Situation-Aware Mobile Assistance	99	(20)
Thomas Kirste
3 Devices for Display and Interaction
Devices for Display and Interaction	119	(18)
Turner Whitted
Technologies for Virtual Reality/Tele-Immersion Applications: Issues of Research in Image Display and Global Networking	137	(1496)
Tom DeFanti
Dan Sandin
Maxine Brown
Dave Pape
Josephine Anstey
Mike Bogucki
Greg Dawe
Andy Johnson
Thomas S. Huang
4 Future Interfaces
Post-Wimp User Interfaces: the Human Connection	1633
Andries van Dam
Universal Usability: A Research Agenda for Human-Computer Interaction to Empower Every Citizen	179	(11)
Ben Shneiderman
Virtual Spaces Revive Real World Interaction	190	(8)
Luc Julia
Jehan Bing
Adam Cheyer
An HCI Agenda for the Next Millennium: Emergent Global Intelligence	198	(25)
John C. Thomas
5 Applications and Tools
Application Drivers for Virtual Environment Technology Development	223	(14)
David Arnold
3D Data Visualization Components on the Web - Results from AVS's Involvement in Several EC Esprit Research Projects	237	(15)
Mikael Jern
Creating a Shared Reality for Research and Education Through Networked Virtual Reality	252	(11)
Judith R. Brown
6 Online Communities
Online Communities: Usability, Sociabilty, Theory and Methods	263	(15)
Jenny Preece
Collaboration and Shared Virtual Environments - from Metaphor to Reality	278	(21)
David Leevers
On the Need for Cultural Representation in Interactive Systems	299	(12)
Sudhir P. Mudur
Internet Security from Diverse Viewpoints	311	(14)
Christoph Busch
7 Foundations for Interaction
Why Performance Always Comes Last in Interactive System Design, and What To Do About It	325	(6)
William Newman
Virtual Environments for Human-Centered Computing	331	(9)
Tosiyasu L. Kunii
Some Aspects of the Human Communication Process: Preliminary Steps Towards a Conceptual Framework	340	(7)
Richard A. Guedj
Natural Human-Human-System Interaction	347	(20)
Niels Ole Bernsen
8 The Business/Academia/Research/Government Axis
Challenges and Frontiers of Computer Graphics: a Vision for an Applied Research Agenda	367	(27)
Jose L. Encarnacao
Society and Human Action: Technology Revisited	394	(19)
Veronique Havelange
Business, Academia, Government: Toward Symbiotic Collaboration in a Networked Society	413	(12)
Kozo Akiyoshi
Nobuo Akiyoshi
Tosiyasu L. Kunii
Sakaki Morishita
A Research Agenda for Visualization and Human Interfaces: a Position Paper	425	(6)
Charles Koelbel
Publishing Technologies: Towards a Wider Concept of Documents and Related Issues	431	(6)
Jurgen Schonhut
The Future and Its Enemies	437	(8)
Bertram Herzog
9 Invited Authors
New Industrial Temporal Objects	445	(16)
Bernard Stiegler
Cognition and Computers: The Context of the Matter, the Matter of Context	461	(8)
Daniel Andler
Supporting Creativity with Advanced Information-Abundant User Interfaces	469	(12)
Ben Shneiderman
Author Index	481