%SECTION Academic Unit %Country USA-OR, Eugene %Shortname Univ. of Oregon, Computer and Info. Science %Institution University of Oregon %Unit Computer and Information Science Dept. %Address Computer and Information Science Dept. University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403 USA %Phone +01-503-346-4408 %Fax +01-503-346-5373 %Email betty@cs.uoregon.edu %Contact Betty Lockwood %Updated 1994-04-01 %Degrees MS, PhD %HCI_MS_Theses 5 %HCI_PhD_Theses 2 %HCI_MS_Current 3 %HCI_PhD_Current 2 %Description Within the CIS Dept. the Interactive Systems Research Group is strong in HCI, Graphics and AI. The Cognitive and Decision Sciences Institute provides interdisciplinary courses and research alliances from faculty in linguistics, psychology and sociology. %Facilities The CIS Dept. has a large number of Sun 4/60's, Tektronix TekXpress X-terminals and Macintosh IIcx's connected over a UNIX based ethernet to Sun 670MP SPARCservers, a 26 processor Sequent S81, and two HP9000/370's. The Interactive Systems Research Group has several Silicon Graphics IRIS Indigo's, Sun SPARC's, and HP9000/433s Turbo VRX T2. There is a complete laboratory for researching human-computer interaction with audio, video and computer recording and editing. %SECTION HCI Program %Contact Sarah Douglas %Title Associate Professor %Address Computer and Information Science Dept. University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403 USA %Phone +01-503-346-3974 %FAX +01-503-346-5373 %Email douglas@cs.uoregon.edu %Program HCI is one of about 6 areas of specialization in the department. %Other_Contacts + %SECTION HCI Faculty %Name Sarah Douglas %Title Associate Professor %Degree Ph.D. 1983, Stanford %Phone +01-503-346-3974 %Email douglas@cs.uoregon.edu %Interests + * User Interfaces * theory of HCI * cognitive modeling * user interface design and specification * Knowledge-Based Interfaces * natural language interfaces * tutoring and help systems %Publications + * Douglas, S.A. Conversation Analysis and Human-Computer Interaction Design. To appear in P. Thomas (Ed.) Social and Interactional Dimensions of Human-Computer Interfaces. Cambridge University Press, 1994. * Douglas, S.A., Doerry, E. and Novick, D. "QUICK: A Tool for Graphical User Interface Construction." The Visual Computer, Volume 8, Number 2, February 1992. * Bowden, E., Douglas, S.A. and Stanford, C.A. "Testing the Principle of Orthogonality in the Design of Languages." Human-Computer Interaction, 4, 2, 1989. %SECTION HCI Faculty %Name Gary Meyer %Title Associate Professor %Degree Ph.D. 1986, Cornell %Phone +01-503-346-3974 %Email gary@cs.uoregon.edu %Interests + * Computer graphics * color synthesis and reproduction based on human color vision %Publications + * Gondek, J. S., G. W. Meyer, and J. G. Newman. "Wavelength Dependent Reflectance Functions." to appear in SIGGRAPH'94 conference proceedings. * Haase, C. S., and G. W. Meyer. "Modeling pigmented materials for realistic image synthesis." ACM Transactions on Graphics 11: 305-335, 1992. * Barbour, C. G., and G.W. Meyer. "Visual cues and pictorial limitations in photorealistic images." The Visual Computer 9: 151-165, 1992. * Meyer, G.W. and A. Liu. "Color spatial acuity control of a screen subdivision image synthesis algorithm." Proceedings SPIE 1666: 387-399,1992. %SECTION HCI Faculty %Name Stephen Fickas %Title Associate Professor %Degree Ph.D. 1982, U.C. Irvine %Phone +01-503-346-3964 %Email fickas@cs.uoregon.edu %Interests + * Software engineering * Formal specification of HCI * HCI interface design methods * Modeling responsibility * Interface design for multi-agent systems %Publications + * Fickas, S., Helm, R., "Automating the design of composite systems." IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 6/92 * Feather, M.S., Fickas, S.F., Helm, B.R., "When things go wrong: predicting failure in multi-agent systems." Niagara Workshop on Intelligent Information Systems, Niagara, 1991 * Feather, M.S., Fickas, S.F., Helm, B.R., "Composite system design: the good news and the bad news." Proceedings of Fourth Annual KBSE Conference, Syracuse, 1991 %SECTION HCI Faculty %Name Kent Stevens %Title Professor %Degree Ph.D. 1979, MIT %Phone +01-503-346-4430 %Email kent@cs.uoregon.edu %Interests + * visual psychophysics of 3D depth perception, human stereopsis * scientific visualization and volummetric displays %Publications + * Stevens, K.A. & Brookes, A. "A system for generation and modification of stereo disparity in images." Proceedings of the 1990 International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Computer Vision, Singapore, 1990. * Stevens, K.A. "Constructing the perception of surfaces from multiple cues." Mind and Language 5(4), 253-266, 1991. * Stevens, K.A., Lees, M. & Brookes, A. "Combining binocular and monocular curvature features." Perception 20(4), 425-440, 1991. %SECTION HCI Courses %Title User Interfaces %Number CIS 443/543 %Instructor Sarah Douglas %Frequency annual %Times_Taught 11 %Enrollment 25-35 %Format lecture + exercises + project %Tools Prototyper, Hypercard, Mac Think C %Text + * Helander (Ed.) Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction * Apple Computer Corp. Human Interface Guidelines: The Apple Desktop Interface %Description An introduction to user interface software engineering. Emphasis is placed on the theory of interface design, understanding the behavior of the user, and programming implementation on GUI systems. %SECTION HCI Courses %Title User Interface Management Systems %Number CIS 610 %Instructor Sarah Douglas %Frequency annual %Times_Taught 1 %Enrollment 15 %Format lecture + exercises + project %Tools DevGuide, Interviews, Garnet, Motif %Text + * Olsen, D., User Interface Management Systems: Models and Algorithms (Morgan Kaufmann 1992) * Smith, J., Designing X Clients with Xt/Motif (Morgan Kaufman 1992) %Description An introduction to client-server user interface management systems. Emphasis is placed on the theory of operating systems and applications programming languages for real-time, highly interactive graphical user interfaces; an in-depth study of X-Window based UIMS, and programming development environments for UIMS. %SECTION HCI Courses %Title Knowledge-Based Interfaces %Number CIS 677 %Instructor Sarah Douglas %Frequency bi-annual %Times_Taught 4 %Enrollment 10-15 %Format advanced graduate seminar, discussion + paper %Tools none %Text + * Suchman, L., Plans and situated actions: The problem of human-machine communication * Luff, Gilbert, Frohlich (eds.) Computers and Conversation. %Description The topic of the seminar this year was Conversational Analysis and human-computer interaction. %SECTION HCI Courses %Title Natural Language Processing %Number CIS 675 %Instructor Sarah Douglas %Frequency bi-annual %Times_Taught 5 %Enrollment 10-15 %Format advanced graduate course, discussion + exercises + midterm + project %Tools Prolog %Text + * Allen, J., Natural Language Understanding. %Description An introduction to natural language processing. Lexical analysis, parsing, semantic interpretation and discourse management. %SECTION HCI Courses %Title Computer Graphics %Number CIS 441/541 %Instructor Gary Meyer %Frequency annual %Times_Taught 8 %Enrollment 25 %Format lecture + exercises + midterm + project %Tools %Text + * Foley, van Dam, Feiner, and Hughes, Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, Addison Wesley, 1990 %Description Introduction to the hardware, geometrical transforms, interaction techniques and shape representation schemes that are important in interactive computer graphics. %SECTION HCI Courses %Title Advanced Computer Graphics %Number CIS 641 %Instructor Gary Meyer %Frequency annual %Times_Taught 8 %Enrollment 20 %Format lecture + exercises + midterm + project %Tools %Text + * Foley, van Dam, Feiner, and Hughes, Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, Addison Wesley, 1990 %Description Computer graphics techniques for realistic image synthesis: scan conversion, clipping, hidden surface algorithms, illumination modeling and color perception. %SECTION HCI Courses %Title Advanced Image Synthesis %Number CIS 610 %Instructor Gary Meyer %Frequency bi-annual %Times_Taught 1 %Enrollment 20 %Format lecture + exercises + project %Tools %Text + * Watt and Watt, Advanced Animation and Rendering Techniques: Theory and Practice, Addison Wesley, 1992 %Description Advanced computer graphics techniques for realistic image synthesis: advanced ray tracing techniques, shaders, texture and texture mapping, radiosity, volumetric rendering %SECTION HCI Courses %Title Visual Information Processing %Number CIS 674 %Instructor Kent Stevens %Frequency bi-annual %Times_Taught 10 %Enrollment 20 %Format lecture + projects + final %Tools %Text + * Richards, W. (ed), Natural Computation 1988 Bradford Books %Description Computational theories of vision. Survey of current models of retinal function and cortical processes of edge detection, form perception, human stereopsis and 3D perception, object recognition. Fundamental techniques, current topics and contemporary systems. Programming project involving image processing software.