🚀 go-pugleaf

Contrary to some rumors, there is indeed a colloquium talk tomorrow,
by Terry Winograd from Stanford.  Note that we've been booted out of
the usual room (265) and are now down the hall in 245.


Terry Winograd 
Experiments in Interactive Workspaces
3:30-4:30pm in ECCR 245

The concept of ubiquitous computing has been popular for many years,
but there are still few compelling examples of how to put the ideas
into practice. There are still many hard questions, both at the
systems level and at the user interaction level, about how to create a
coherent information and interaction space that is distributed among
many places, machines, and users.

We have been developing a testbed called the iRoom, in which we are
creating the components of an integrated interactive environment for
people engaged in multi-person work that involves complex visual and
information structures. We have developed a robust, flexible
communications infrastructure for integrating devices ranging from
workstations and touch screens to specialized I/O devices. On top of
this infrastructure we have explored mechanisms for moving both
information and controls across devices of different types and scales,
and have created some preliminary elements of an "overface" that
provides cross-platform, cross-device uniformity for managing and
working in the space.

The talk will describe the overall philosophy and architecture of the
iRoom, and illustrate with a number of specific application
experiments that we have begun.