Here's a good story about direct manipulation considering Japanese vs.
North American practices.
http://www.dna.bc.ca/gallery/lisa.html
- Mikol
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Mikol Graves (diggs@cc.gatech.edu)
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/idt/students/mgraves
Today's lunatic fringe will tell us where tomorrow's
mainstream computer industry will come from.
-- Jean-Louis Gassee
On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Jen Mankoff wrote:
>
> The topic for next week is "The Limits of Direct Manipulation"
>
> In order to discuss the limits of DM, we need to define it (Hutchin's
> paper helps with this) and to think about other types of interfaces
> with which we can compare it. Try to come up with one example of
> a non-direct manipulation interface, and compare it's abilities and
> limits to those of DM interfaces.
>
> >From the readings, please pay special attention to Hutchin's
> discussion of problems with Direct Manipulation (starts p. 336). I
> also found the violin-piano example on p. 328 to be interesting. In
> the Bowman & Hodges paper, think about the needs (and limitations) of
> 3D and VR interfaces with respect to direct manipulation. The
> Neurosurgical Planning paper is a good "story" paper for direct
> manipulation.
>
> They will be available in a box outside of Gregory's door starting
> today.
>
> -jen
>
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> The readings are:
>
> Hutchins, E., Hollan, J., and Norman, D. "Direct Manipulation
> Interfaces." in User Centered System Design, D. Norman and S.
> Draper, eds., Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1986,
> pp. 87-124.
>
> Bowman, D. and Hodges, L. "An Evaluation of Techniques for Grabbing and
> Manipulating Remote Objects in Immersive Virtual Environments." to appear
> in Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, 1997.
>
> and
>
> Goble, J., Hinckley, K., Pausch, R., Snell, J., and Kassell, N.
> "Two-Handed Spatial Interface Tools for Neurosurgical Planning."
> IEEE Computer, vol. 28, no. 7, July 1995, pp. 20-26.
>
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>
> For further reference, if you're interested, you might want to look
> over the following additional papers (I'll have them available for
> photocopying in my office):
>
> Pausch, R. and Burnette, T. "Navigation and Locomotion in Virtual
> Worlds via Flight into Hand-Held Miniatures", SIGGRAPH '95
>
> Schneiderman, B. "Direct Manipulation: A Step Beyond Programming
> Languages" Excerpted from IEEE Computer, August 1983, New York: IEEE
> Computer Society
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