http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/itunes.stanford.edu.1357108180.01432528356 Human-Computer Interaction Seminar - Winter 2007 Weekly speakers on topics related to human-computer interaction design. Presentations on a wide and evolving range of current research issues relating to human-computer interaction.   en-us Education no Human-Computer Interaction Seminar - Winter 2007 - Psychological Engagement in Complex Multiplayer Games and Implications for Learning and Work - (January 12, 2007) Online multiplayer games and virtual environments engage people with features, some new and some familiar, that heighten psychological involvement in mediated interactions.  Important features includes new forms of self-representation, 1432378478 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:08:59 GMT Education Byron Reeves, Stanford MediaX/Communications 1:24:01 no Human-Computer Interaction Seminar - Winter 2007 - Problems and Solutions with "Simple" Interactive Devices - (January 19, 2007) Even simple interactive devices have many usability and safety problems. This talk reviews some of those problems, and how they can be detected either in design (using formal methods) or by getting feedback from users (using new digital 1431690530 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:08:59 GMT Education Harold Thimbleby, University of Swansea 1:22:59 no Human-Computer Interaction Seminar - Winter 2007 - Usability and Software Architecture: The Forgotten Quality Attribute and the Forgotten Design Problem - (January 26, 2007) The usability analyses or user test data are in; the development team is poised to respond. The software had been carefully modularized so that modifications to the UI can be fast and easy. As a field, HCI has produced methods for ever 1432116440 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:08:59 GMT Education Bonnie John, HCI Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University 1:11:13 no Human-Computer Interaction Seminar - Winter 2007 - Designing Interactions - (February 2, 2007) Digital technology has changed the way we interact with everything from the games we play to the tools we use at work. Designers of digital technology products no longer regard their job as designing a physical object--beautiful or util 1431952488 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:08:59 GMT Education Bill Moggridge, IDEO 1:24:26 no Human-Computer Interaction Seminar - Winter 2007 - The Design of Future Things: Cautious Cars and Cantankerous Kitchens - (February 9, 2007) 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 discusses the in 1431461139 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:08:59 GMT Education Don Norman, Northwestern University and Nielsen-Norman Group 1:28:52 no Human-Computer Interaction Seminar - Winter 2007 - Why Phones Are Not Computers - (February 23, 2007) This talk will give a brief history of the mobile phone: how it grew and blossomed as a communicator but has badly stumbled with the advent of data services. The solution is to deeply understand the pros/cons of phone capabilities and 1430871610 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:08:59 GMT Education Scott Jenson, Google 1:01:47 no Human-Computer Interaction Seminar - Winter 2007 - Better Game Characters by Design - (March 2, 2007) The underlying psychological principles that help to make the best game characters compelling to players are examined. Taking a psychological approach to understanding their design allows us to extend the insights their designers have had 1430986021 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:08:59 GMT Education Katherine Isbister, Rensselaer Polytechnic 1:11:34 no Human-Computer Interaction Seminar - Winter 2007 - Interactive Diagrams of Complex 3D Objects - (March 9, 2007) Diagrams are essential for communicating the structure of complex 3D objects such as mechanical assemblies, architectural environments and biological organisms.  Yet, creating illustrations that clearly depict the structural relationships 1432378551 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:08:59 GMT Education Maneesh Agrawala, UC Berkeley 1:25:10 no Human-Computer Interaction Seminar - Winter 2007 - Google Design in Practice: the Challenge of Simplicity - (March 16, 2007) Google search is deceptively simple. This homepage, with its single text input and whimsical, seasonal logo, masks an extraordinary quantity of engineering effort and speaks volumes about Google's design philosophy. Over the years, the Go 1431723387 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:08:59 GMT Education Adam Barker, Google 1:25:48 no