TR2000-034

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)
Date:October 2000
MERL Contact:Joseph Katz

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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