SENSING-BASED INTERACTION

A Special Issue of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)

Special issue editors: Shumin Zhai and Victoria Bellotti

Deadline for Submissions (extended): 31 January 2003.

Sensing-based interaction is at the core of or synonymous with many emerging or fast developing areas of HCI including pervasive, ubiquitous or context aware computing, intelligent environments, augmented reality interfaces and tangible interfaces. Many new ideas, analyses and prototypes are pushing the boundaries of what we believe is possible with and what we think is important about sensing-based interaction (see [1], for example). However, serious challenges lie ahead when human-system interaction switches to sensing, rather than WIMPs (windows, icons, menus and pointers). As a mundane example, one often sees confused users of sensor-based automatic airport restrooms waving their arms back and forth randomly without knowing what to expect.

Five critical questions for sensing-based interaction have been raised recently [2]. How does a system know the user is addressing it but not other systems? How does the user know the system is attending to her request? How does the system know what object the user's command (e.g. save) relates to? How does the user know the system understands and is correctly executing user's goal? How do the user and the system resolve misunderstandings? These questions are mundanely addressed by conventional GUIs, but pose difficult challenges for sensing-based interaction. We seek papers that formulate, solve, address, or further theorize on these or related issues for sensing-based interactions. We welcome substantial contributions made in all methodologies, including but not limited to empirical studies, architecture and system development, and theoretical analysis.

References

1. Moran, T. P. and Dourish, J. P. (editors). Special Issue on Context-Aware Computing. Human Computer Interaction, Volume 16, Numbers 2-4. Erlbaum.

2. Bellotti, V. M. E., Back, M. J., Edwards, W. K., Grinter, R. E., Lopes, C. V. and Henderson, A. Making sense of sensing systems: Five questions for designers and researchers. Proc. CHI 2002, 415-422. ACM.

Further information regarding guidelines for preparing and formatting manuscripts and general TOCHI submission procedures are available at: <http://www.acm.org/tochi/>. Please indicate in your cover letter that your manuscript is being submitted to the special issue on "Sensing-based Interaction." The deadline for receiving submissions is January 31, 2003. All contributions will be peer reviewed to the usual standard of TOCHI. For further information or to discuss a possible contribution, please contact the special issue editors, Shumin Zhai and Victoria Bellotti.

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