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This book introduces a new perspective on how to design user interfaces called "Computational Interaction". This new method applies principles of computational thinking (abstraction, automation and analysis) to inform our understanding of how people interact with user interfaces.
List of contents
- Input and interaction techniques
- 1: Roderick Murray-Smith: Control Theory, Dynamics and Continuous Interaction
- 2: Per Ola Kristensson: Statistical Language Processing for Text Entry
- 3: Otmar Hilliges: Input Recognition
- Design
- 4: Antti Oulasvirta, Andreas Karrenbauer: Combinatorial Optimization for UI Design
- 5: Xiaojun Bi, Brian Smith, Tom Ouyang, Shumin Zhai: Soft Keyboard Performance Optimization
- 6: Yuki Koyama, Takeo Igarashi: Computational Design with Crowds
- Systems
- 7: Alan Dix: Practical Formal Methods in HCI
- 8: Paul Cairns, Harold Thimbleby: From Premature Semantics to Mature Interaction Programming
- 9: Célia Martinie, Philippe Palanque, Camille Fayollas: Performance Evaluation of Interactive Systems with ICO Models
- Human Behaviour
- 10: Andrew Howes, Xiuli Chen, Aditya Acharya, Richard L. Lewis: Interaction as an Emergent Property of a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process
- 11: Leif Azzopardi, Guido Zuccon: Economic Models of Interaction
- 12: Duncan P. Brumby, Christian P. Janssen, Tuomo Kujala, Dario D. Salvucci: Computational Models of User Multitasking
- 13: Wai-Tat Fu, Jessie Chin, Q. Vera Liao: The Central Role of Cognitive Computations in Human-Information Interaction
- 14: Nikola Banovic, Jennifer Mankoff, Anind K. Dey: Computational Model of Human Routine Behaviors
- 15: Wai-Tat Fu, Mingkun Gao, Hyo Jin Do: Computational Methods for Socio-Computer Interaction
About the author
Antti Oulasvirta is an Associate Professor at Aalto University where he leads the User Interfaces research group. He was previously a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and the Cluster of Excellence on Multimodal Computing and Interaction at Saarland university. He received his doctorate in Cognitive Science from the University of Helsinki in 2006, after which he was a Fulbright Scholar at the School of Information in University of California-Berkeley in 2007-2008
Per Ola Kristensson is University Reader in Interactive Systems Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He is interested in designing intelligent interactive systems that enable people to be more creative, expressive and satisfied in their daily lives. He is an Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction and ACM Transactions Intelligent Interactive Systems. In 2013, MIT Technology Review named him an Innovator Under 35 (TR35) and in 2014 he received the ACM User Interface Software and Technology Lasting Impact Award.
Xiaojun Bi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University. He earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, and received his Master's and Bachelor's degrees from Tsinghua University, China. He won the first place in the National Mathematical Olympiad (China) in his home province when he was a high school student, recruited by Tsinghua University with the national college entrance examination waived. Xiaojun Bi has authored over 25 publications in the premier HCI publication venues such as ACM CHI, UIST, and Human Computer Interaction, and over 20 US patents.
Andrew Howes is is a Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Birmingham School of Computer Science. His research interests are in computational models of human interaction. He is an associate editor of the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies and of Cognitive Science and he has served as committee member for the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. He was chair of the ACM CHI 2014 Spotlight on Interaction Science. Howes is currently visiting faculty at the Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science at the University of Michigan and was a visiting scientist at NASA Ames Research Center
in 2015.
Summary
This book introduces a new perspective on how to design user interfaces called "Computational Interaction". This new method applies principles of computational thinking (abstraction, automation and analysis) to inform our understanding of how people interact with user interfaces.
