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Started by Kevin Burr
Wed, 23 Feb 1994 19:43
February Ottawa ACM/SIGCHI Meeting
Author: Kevin Burr
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 19:43
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 19:43
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*** A reminder...
*** Everyone is welcome to attend.
Ottawa ACM/SIGCHI February Meeting
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Date: Thursday, February 17, 1994
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
Place: BNR Carling Auditorium
(Southwest corner of
Carling and Moodie, Nepean.)
Speaker: Arlen Michaels
Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Topic: Multimedia communications:
Forget technology! What's the psychology?
About the Talk
==============
Arlen Michaels will talk about the human considerations
of using multimedia as a communications technique.
This presentation will concentrate on the benefits and constraints
from a person's point of view-- the ergonomics, not the technology.
Some examples will be available to stimulate discussion.
Arlen Michaels is a scientist working at Bell-Northern Research
in Ottawa, where he advises technical communicators about
human factors in online information design.
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PLEASE NOTE:
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It gives me great pleasure to announce our new Ottawa ACM/SIGCHI
Chair... Peter Szmyt !!!
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For further information contact:
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Chair: Peter Szmyt (613)228-5100 x4029 75470.420@CompuServ.com
Treasurer &
Memberships: Alan Frank (613)763-2553 afrank@bnr.ca
Program
Director: Maryam Banaei (613)763-4892 maryam@bnr.ca
Newsletter
Editors: Tom D'Ippolito (613)788-6629 tdippoli@ccs.carleton.ca
Ron Pinder (613)763-8551 pinder@bnr.ca
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors,ott.events,bnr.general,bnr.user-interface
Subject: February ACM/SIGCHI Meeting
Summary:
Followup-To:
Distribution: ott
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Keywords:
Cc:
*** A reminder...
*** Everyone is welcome to attend.
Ottawa ACM/SIGCHI February Meeting
==================================
Date: Thursday, February 17, 1994
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
Place: BNR Carling Auditorium
(Southwest corner of
Carling and Moodie, Nepean.)
Speaker: Arlen Michaels
Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Topic: Multimedia communications:
Forget technology! What's the psychology?
About the Talk
==============
Arlen Michaels will talk about the human considerations
of using multimedia as a communications technique.
This presentation will concentrate on the benefits and constraints
from a person's point of view-- the ergonomics, not the technology.
Some examples will be available to stimulate discussion.
Arlen Michaels is a scientist working at Bell-Northern Research
in Ottawa, where he advises technical communicators about
human factors in online information design.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
PLEASE NOTE:
-----------
It gives me great pleasure to announce our new Ottawa ACM/SIGCHI
Chair... Peter Szmyt !!!
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
For further information contact:
-------------------------------
Chair: Peter Szmyt (613)228-5100 x4029 75470.420@CompuServ.com
Treasurer &
Memberships: Alan Frank (613)763-2553 afrank@bnr.ca
Program
Director: Maryam Banaei (613)763-4892 maryam@bnr.ca
Newsletter
Editors: Tom D'Ippolito (613)788-6629 tdippoli@ccs.carleton.ca
Ron Pinder (613)763-8551 pinder@bnr.ca
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors,ott.events,comp.robotics,bnr.user-interface,bnr.general
Subject: Ottawa ACM/SIGCHI March Meeting
Summary:
Followup-To:
Distribution: ott
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Keywords:
Cc:
*** Everyone is welcome to attend.
Ottawa ACM/SIGCHI March Meeting
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Date: Thursday, March 17, 1994
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
Place: SystemHouse
5th Floor, 50 O'Connor St., Ottawa
(Between Albert and Queen.
Free parking in lots nearby.)
Report to security desk.
Speaker: Colin Archibald
National Research Council
Topic: Non-Textual Robot Programming
About the Talk
==============
The evolution of industrial robot programming has been influenced by
increased capacity of microprocessors, and the development of a variety
of new sensing devices. For robots which do not use sensors to adapt to
the habitat, `teaching by showing' and point to point teaching are still
viable programming methods. `Teach pendants' have been the most common
interface between the shop floor robot programmer, and the mechanical
devices. As the requirements of robotic tasks increased in complexity,
teach pendants also grew in complexity to the point where these
interface devices may now contain full QWERTY keyboards and an
additional 50 function keys.
At this point it is necessary to redefine the requirements of the shop
floor programmer, and to separate the responsibilities of the
applications specialist, and the systems specialist. A new approach to
robot programming has been developed which provides a a non-textual
programming environment allowing the shop floor programmer to express
the robot operations in terms of a sequence of robot skills. This is a
very specific type of user interface. It is not a fixed graphical
interface, nor is it a functional programming language in the
traditional sense. The iconic programming interface is designed
specifically so that application specialist who uses robots can
specify the robotic operations in an environment which is flexible, but
not complex. Emphasis in the design of the interface is on reduced
tool-time for a user with a specific mental model of the tools and the
problem to be solved.
Another aspect of this approach is the development of an architecture
for the creation of these skills which can take advantage of the new
capabilities of sensors, and microprocessor technologies. The
important issues which arise in making such a scheme practicable involve
the tradeoffs between capability, flexibility and usability at the
non-textual programming level, and the consistent interface between the
non-textual shop floor programming and the systems program.
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For further information contact:
-------------------------------
Chair: Peter Szmyt (613)228-5100 x4029 75470.420@CompuServ.com
Treasurer &
Memberships: Alan Frank (613)763-2553 afrank@bnr.ca
Program
Director: Maryam Banaei (613)763-4892 maryam@bnr.ca
Newsletter
Editors: Tom D'Ippolito (613)788-6629 tdippoli@ccs.carleton.ca
Ron Pinder (613)763-8551 pinder@bnr.ca
ACM/SIGCHI: Association for Computing Machinery's
Special Interest Group for Computer Human Interaction
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