dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu (David Mark) (09/16/90)
Research Initiative: USER INTERFACES FOR GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS
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Recently, the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis
(NCGIA) announced a new Research Initiative on "User Interfaces for Geographic
Information Systems." Initiative 13 will address human-computer interaction
methods and related issues in the design and implementation of user interfaces
for GISs and other geographical software packages.
The research initiative has as its broad goals:
o to investigate ways for people to interact with computers when
solving problems concerning geographic space and spatial phenomena;
o to establish criteria and methods for the design of GIS user
interfaces, and user interfaces for other geographic software;
o to develop and test prototypes of GIS interfaces and interface
development tools.
The co-leaders of this Research Initiative are:
David M. Mark, NCGIA, Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo
dmark@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
and
Andrew U. Frank, NCGIA, Surveying Engineering, University of Maine
frank@mecan1.maine.edu
The "Specialist Meeting" for Initiative 13 is planned for the Buffalo
area in May or June 1991. Attendance at the workshop will be limited
to about 30-35 people, and will be by invitation only. The larger
research community will be able to participate through an electronic
newsletter and other similar means. However, the participants list is
by no means set; thus persons interested in the topic are urged to contact
either of the co-Leaders at the electronic mail addresses above.
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NCGIA Research Initiatives are multi-site, multidisciplinary research
projects of about 2 years' duration. After a planning phase, Initiatives
begin with a "Specialist Meeting", an intensive workshop of 3 or 4 days'
duration at which NCGIA personnel and specialists from other academic units,
from government agencies, and from industry meet to determine and
prioritize researchable questions and to establish a research agenda for
the NCGIA and others.
The NCGIA itself is a consortium led by the University of California,
Santa Barbara, with partner inistitutions at Buffalo and Maine.
The NCGIA has basic research as its primary mission, and is
supported primarily by the National Science Foundation and by the
member institutions.
For more information about the NCGIA in general, or about other
Research Initiatives, contact:
NCGIA@voodoo.bitnet [Santa Barbara]
NCGIA@ubvms.bitnet [Buffalo]
NCGIA@mecan1.bitnet [Maine]
or myself, David Mark, at geodmm@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
[Note: I cross-posted to sci.lang because natural language interfaces are
of great interest to us.]dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu (David Mark) (09/17/90)
In article <36345@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu (David Mark) writes: >Research Initiative: USER INTERFACES FOR GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS > ================================================== > [description of the project deleted] Rather amazingly, I got my OWN email address wrong in this posting! I can be reached by email either at: geodmm@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu [my VMS account] or at: dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu [my UNIX account] But, I posted the username from one with the node name of the other. Sorry for the confusion! David Mark