bam@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Brad Myers) (09/30/89)
SIGCHI'90: CALL FOR VIDEOS OF INTERACTION TECHNIQUES As the CHI'90 video chair, I am preparing a special section of the SIGCHI'90 video review that is a collection of extremely short sequences of lots of different designs for many different interaction techniques (also called widgets and gadgets). The interaction techniques I am thinking of including are scroll bars, sliders, menus and sub-menus, buttons, text type in fields, dialog boxes or property sheets, text selection, graphics selection, graphic-object move and change size, window move, change size and other manipulation, and any other low level interaction techniques that are interesting and important. I hope to have about 45 different short segments on different interaction techniques. I am planning to organize them in groups by interaction technique (ordered perhaps chronologically), rather than by company. Therefore, the viewer would see, say, 10 different scroll bars, then 12 different menus, then 7 different buttons, etc. The idea is to show the diversity of designs and to help future designers know what the various options are. I have already contacted people representing the following companies and systems and they have said they will participate: SmallTalk, Interlisp, Macintosh, NeXT, SunTools, Apollo window manager, OSF Motif, Open Look, DECwindows, Microsoft Windows 1, Microsoft Windows 2, Ardent, Andrew, Xerox Star, Peridot, Xerox Cedar, NeWS, Silicon Graphics, Symbolics, Xerox XDE If you know of other interesting menus, buttons, scroll bars or other low level interaction techniques, please let me know who to contact about creating a video. I will send the complete information packet. For the contact person who can make the video tape, please send me the: * Name * Physical mail address * Electronic mail address * Phone number The deadline for me to receive the final interaction technique videos is November 1, 1989! Therefore, please let me know as soon as possible if you have any ideas, so I can send the complete information packet to the appropriate people. Thank you for your help, Brad A. Myers CHI'90 Video Chair School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 (412) 268-5150 bam@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu -- Someday has arrived