Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

Personal Digital Historian: User Interface Design

Citation:   Shen, C.; Lesh, N.B.; Moghaddam, B.; Beardsley, P.A.; Bardsley, R.S., "Personal Digital Historian: User Interface Design", ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), March 2001 (CHI 2001)
MERL Report:  TR2000-34

Desktop computers are not designed for multi-person face-to-face conversation in a social setting. We describe the design of a novel user interface for multi-user interactive informal storytelling. Our design is guided by principles of experience sharing, the disappearing computer, visual navigation, and implicit query formulation.

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