Winter Quarter 2009 Course Announcement

ENGR110/210
Perspectives in Assistive Technology

David L. Jaffe, MS and Professor Drew Nelson
Tuesdays & Thursdays   4:15pm - 5:30pm
Main Quad, History Corner, Lane Hall (Building 200), Room 034 (lower level)


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Tuesday, February 10th

photo of TV Raman

Eyes-Free Interaction: Moving the User Interface to the Background
TV Raman, PhD
Google Research

Abstract: Handheld user interfaces (UIs) should leverage the growing array of sensors and actuators. With the emergence of smart phones, the time is fast approaching when devices small enough to fit in a pocket will be able to meet all of our personal computing and communication needs. Despite their increased capabilities and functionality, however, the size and shape of today's computing devices ranging from laptops to handheld devices are still largely determined by the same factors they were a decade ago - namely, the keyboard and visual display. But as user interfaces move into the background, this can begin to change.

Next-generation user interfaces are extending beyond the traditional visual interface to leverage hearing and touch, thereby augmenting overall user interaction. In addition, as computing devices have become a more integral part of our daily lives, they've acquired a rich diversity of I/O peripherals capable of collecting and presenting useful information about the physical environment.

A successful UI, like a well-designed doorknob, is one that no one notices. As handhelds incorporate more ubiquitous computing technologies, we can expect the UI to recede further into the background.

Biosketch: TV Raman is a computer scientist who was born and raised in Pune, India. His accessibility research interests are primarily auditory user interfaces and structured electronic documents. He has worked on speech interaction and markup technologies in the context of the World Wide Web at Digital's Cambridge Research Lab (CRL), Adobe Systems, IBM Research, and is currently a research scientist at Google Research. He holds nine patents and earned a PhD in applied mathematics at Cornell University.

Contact information:
Google Research
Mountain View, CA 
raman - at- google.com
Lecture Material:
Slides - 475 Kb pdf file
Audio - 56:47 - 13.0 Mb mp3 file
Links:
TV Raman on the Internet
Speech Enabled Eyes-Free Android Applications
Thinking of Mathematics - An Essay On Eyes-free Computing


Updated 02/12/2009

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