Human Machine Interaction Research Results of the MMI Program
Human Machine Interaction, or more commonly Human Computer Interaction, is the study of interaction between people and computers. It is an interdisciplinary field, connecting computer science with many other disciplines such as psychology, sociology and t
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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany
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Denis Lalanne Jürg Kohlas (Eds.)
Human Machine Interaction Research Results of the MMI Program
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Volume Editors Denis Lalanne Jürg Kohlas University of Fribourg Department of Informatics CH-1700, Fribourg, Switzerland E-mail: {Denis.Lalanne, Juerg.Kohlas}@unifr.ch
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Preface
The interaction between humans and machines is a central concern of computer science. How can machines become convivial? How can machines present results of computations in a comprehensive way? What modes of communication between man and machine exist and how can they be best exploited according to the needs of a particular application? These are only a few of the important questions that neede to be addressed in order to enhance the usability of these universal machines that participate more and more in our daily life. The design of human–computer interfaces calls for different abilities. Therefore, the Hasler Foundation launched a research program on “Man–Machine Interaction” (MMI) in 2005. At this time in Switzerland, the technical Universities of Applied Science emerged from the old
