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A book surveying the literature on user interface software and technology.
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Body: student feedback #36

Closed amyjko closed 5 years ago

amyjko commented 6 years ago

I would find it interesting if there were some motion graphics of the various muscles you mention in use - such as "When we look with our eyes, we use muscles to shift our gaze, to blink, to squint, and keep our eyes closed." This would be useful when comparing a person with high functioning motor ability compared to someone with motor impairment. Since muscles are under the skin, away from focus and invisible at times, it becomes more likely that disabilities are overlooked or dismissed due to unawareness.

I wonder if it's possible to have the links you provide automatically open in another window/tab. I know I can right click on a link and have it open in a new tab, but I often forget this and create an unintentional trail to open a PDF article on ACM (i.e. Setler et al. 2016).

I wonder if there is a logic behind the further reading. For example, if someone wants to learn more about "body" they might be recommended to read certain articles. I typically go through each reading and first look at the title, and if I am curious I will go read the abstract before I commit to a single article to read. If I already know the connection a paper has to content in the chapter, it would help me to find and avoid missing papers of a certain focus that interest me.

amyjko commented 6 years ago

  1. During the gaze interaction section of the chapter, I was anticipating there to be a mention of its use in virtual reality but did not see it surprisingly. I think touching on how using raycasting in VR for gaze interactions is effective today.

  2. Additionally, as a whole I do realize that there is a lack of HCI research of really exploring these interactions, but sometimes it does feel like a bit of a laundry list of research papers and feels that it lacks a little bit of a core base to contextualize these papers. I think including a little more technical information in these matters would help greatly.

amyjko commented 6 years ago

I understand that in this chapter, the author tries to transition smoothly and summarize this chapter with Weiser's vision of ubiquitous computing. Yet the claim in the last paragraph "[a]ll of these techniques essentially aim to further Weiser's vision of ubiquitous computing" sounds like a giant brush over all the possible intentions behind these techniques, ignoring other possible context. If the author insists to demonstrate a Weiser paradigm as such, he should further unpack how exactly each technique might be related to Weiser throughout the chapter. If the author claims at the beginning "every overt action is driven by our muscles," then he might want to reconsider the choice for the subtitle "Muscles" when he discusses the techniques driven by "muscles in our limbs." Logically they're overlapping and might cause confusion. They should be distinguished with clearer definitions.