BayCHI (Sept 12) - The Anti-Mac Interface (Violating the Mac HI Guidelines)
Richard Ivan Anderson
the San Francisco Bay Area ACM SIGCHI
(Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction),
announces its September meeting:
Tuesday, September 12, 1995
7:30 - 9:30 pm
NOTE LOCATION CHANGE / SEE DIRECTIONS BELOW / NOTE LOCATION CHANGE
The Anti-Mac Interface:
Violating the Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines
(A Reflective Consideration of
the Pros & the Cons)
Don Gentner
Austin Henderson
Jakob Nielsen
Don Norman
Kresge Auditorium
on Abbott Way
Stanford University
NOTE LOCATION CHANGE / SEE DIRECTIONS BELOW / NOTE LOCATION CHANGE
<BayCHI meeting attendance is free & open to the public>
Abstract:
The WIMP interface popularized by the Macintosh has been around for more
than ten years - ten years in which computers and computing have changed
dramatically. How can we move beyond the Macintosh interface? The
Anti-Mac interface is a thought experiment that starts with the premise
of violating all of the Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines. What results
is a very different but surprisingly coherent view of a computer-human
interface based on novel models, language, and diversity, as opposed to
the Macintosh model based on metaphor, direct manipulation, and consistency.
At CHI'95, the Anti-Mac debate attracted an overflow crowd. The BayCHI
presentation will reassemble the debate participants. But this time,
rather than having a competitive debate, we will look more closely at the
ideas underlying both the Macintosh and Anti-Mac interfaces and discuss how
we can design computer interfaces that will serve us well in the coming
decade.
Biographies:
DON GENTNER is a human interface designer at SunSoft, where he currently
leads the user interface design team for an online documentation browser
and information retrieval application. Before coming to Sun, Don was a
human interface designer at Apple Computer and Philips Research Labs.
AUSTIN HENDERSON has been in the field of Human-Computer Interaction since
1964. He has a B.Sc. in Mathematics from Queen's University, Canada, an MS
in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D in Computer
Science for MIT. He has built applications in areas including
manufacturing, air traffic control, electronic mail (Hermes), user
interface design tools (Trillium), workspace management (Rooms, Buttons).
He has done research and user interface architecture for Xerox at both PARC
and EuroPARC, industrial design with Fitch. In 1994, he joined Apple
Computer where he now manages the User Experience Laboratory in the
Advanced Technology Group. Austin has been active in ACM/SIGCHI since 1983,
including as conference chair (1985), and chair (1989-1993).
JAKOB NIELSEN is Distinguished Engineer for Strategic Technology at
SunSoft where he works on next-generation user interface concepts, user
interface design for the World Wide Web, and usability engineering
methods. His books include "Usability Engineering" and the new "Multimedia
and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond". Jakob was previously with
Bellcore, the Technical University of Denmark, and the IBM User Interface
Institute at the T.J. Watson Research Center. His monthly column is at
http://www.sun.com/current/columns/alertbox.
DON NORMAN is vice president of Applied Technology at Apple Computer, where
he is leading the effort to develop the next generation of computers. Don
should be well known to BayCHI folks because he has given several
presentations. He is the author of lots of books, the latest being "Things
that make us smart" and a Voyager CD-ROM with three of his books and
videos. Don is Professor emeritus of Cognitive Science at UC, San Diego.
Don Gentner used to work for Don. Austin still does. (Now is it Jakob's
turn?)
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NOTES OF SPONSORSHIP & THANKS
BayCHI thanks Terry Winograd and the Project on People, Computers, and
Design for sponsoring our use of Kresge Auditorium the evening of
September 12.
BayCHI thanks Jock MacKinlay and Stu Card of Xerox PARC for sponsoring
our use of the Xerox PARC auditorium for most BayCHI monthly meetings.
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BayCHI's October meeting: October 10
(location: Xerox PARC Auditorium, Palo Alto)
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About BayCHI
BayCHI, the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of ACM's Special Interest
Group on Computer-Human Interaction, brings together systems designers,
human factors engineers, computer scientists, psychologists, social
scientists, users, ... from throughout the Bay Area to hear and to
exchange ideas about computer-human interaction and about the design
and evaluation of user interfaces.
To join BayCHI, which will get you added to the mailing list for the
newsletter, enable your access to the jobbank, enable your listing in
the consultants directory, ..., send a note to cstree...@xerox.com
or to BayCHI, PO Box 25, Menlo Park, CA 94026, and we will send you a
membership form. Membership forms are also available at the BayCHI
meetings.
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BayCHI Steering Committee
The BayCHI steering committee meetings are open to anyone who is interested
in attending. The meetings are generally held the first Tuesday of the month
at 7:30 p.m. Please contact any member of the committee for directions to the
meeting.
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DIRECTIONS TO KRESGE AUDITORIUM, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
>From Interstate 280, take EITHER
the PAGE MILL Road exit
OR
the SAND HILL Road exit.
If you take PAGE MILL, go east on Page Mill about one mile and turn
left onto Junipero Serra Blvd. (Foothill Expressway goes in the opposite
direction). Go north about two miles and turn right onto Campus Drive
East. Turn left onto Alvarado Row (the second cross street). Then turn
left at the next corner onto Abbott Way. Kresge - the Law School
auditorium - is to the right near the end of Abbott Way. (The most
convenient parking for Kresge is around Alvarado Row and Abbott Way.)
If you take SAND HILL, go east on Sand Hill about one mile and turn
right onto Alpine Road. After a short distance, turn left onto
Junipero Serra Blvd. Follow Junipero Serra about one mile to Campus
Drive East (not West - you will pass Campus Drive West). Turn left
onto Campus Drive East. Turn left onto Alvarado Row (the second
cross street). Then turn left at the next corner onto Abbott Way.
Kresge - the Law School auditorium - is to the right near the end of
Abbott Way. (The most convenient parking for Kresge is around Alvarado
Row and Abbott Way.)
>From 101, take EITHER
the OREGON EXPRESSWAY exit,
OR
the EMBARCADERO Road exit,
OR
the UNIVERSITY Avenue exit.
If you take the OREGON EXPRESSWAY exit, go west on the Oregon Expressway
2 miles to El Camino Real. Oregon Expressway becomes Page Mill Road at
El Camino Real. Follow Page Mill Road 1.5 miles to Junipero Serra Blvd.
and turn right (Foothill Expressway goes in the opposite direction). Go
north about two miles and turn right onto Campus Drive East. Turn left
onto Alvarado Row (the second cross street). Then turn left at the next
corner onto Abbott Way. Kresge - the Law School auditorium - is to the
right near the end of Abbott Way. (The most convenient parking for
Kresge is around Alvarado Row and Abbott Way.)
If you take EMBARCADERO, go northwest on Embarcadero 2 miles to
El Camino Real. Embarcadero becomes Galvez Street at El Camino Real.
Follow Galvez St. about one mile to Campus Drive and turn left. Follow
Campus Drive (it turns into Campus Drive East at some point) around to
Alvarado Row (approx. 2 miles). Turn right onto Alvarado Row. Then turn
left at the next corner onto Abbott Way. Kresge - the Law School
auditorium - is to the right near the end of Abbott Way. (The most
convenient parking for Kresge is around Alvarado Row and Abbott Way.)
If you take UNIVERSITY, go west on University 2 miles to
El Camino Real. University becomes Palm Drive at El Camino Real. Follow
Palm Drive about one mile to Campus Drive and turn left. Follow
Campus Drive (it turns into Campus Drive East at some point) around
(approx. 2 1/2 miles) to Alvarado Row. Turn right onto Alvarado Row.
Then turn left at the next corner onto Abbott Way. Kresge - the Law
School auditorium - is to the right near the end of Abbott Way. (The
most convenient parking for Kresge is around Alvarado Row and Abbott Way.)
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