From: riander@well.sf.ca.us (Richard Ivan Anderson)
Subject: BayCHI (Aug 11) - Casual Multimedia (Kristina Hooper Woolsey)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Distribution: ba
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 01:21:13 GMT

                                      BayCHI,
                       the San Francisco Bay Area ACM SIGCHI
             (Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction),
                           announces its August meeting:

                              Tuesday, August 11, 1991
                                   7:30 - 9:30 pm


                                CASUAL MULTIMEDIA:
                   The use of imagery in everyday activities

             Kristina Hooper Woolsey, Apple Computer Multimedia Lab


                               Xerox PARC Auditorium
                               3333 Coyote Hill Road
                               Palo Alto, CA 94304

ABSTRACT

Over the last five years the Apple Multimedia Lab has designed a range
multimedia prototypes, products and tools, primarily in HyperCard.  Many of our
considerations have derived fundamentally from a content point of view or a
technology experimentation perspective or a market development perspective.
Others have been centrally interface issues, as we have addressed again and
again such questions as:
 
(1) How do people enter the system?  How do you establish just what this thing
is?
 
(2) How do you create a coherent-feeling environment?  Do you provide easy
access to a range of materials "from one spot", or do you provide a structured
environment in which users "can move around"?
 
(3) What extent of user control do you provide which is easily accessible?  How
do you store materials for reconstruction?  What kinds of "bookmarking" tools
are required?  Is a title without any tools non-interactive?
 
(4) What kinds of interaction are there beyond "click and view"?
 
We have addressed these issues again and again in different contexts, and have
solved them in many different ways.
 
This talk will address this general class of issues, and try to provide some
interesting discussion based on the direct experiences we have had in
addressing them.  For we have found no one way to solve these issues best, but
instead have developed a basic design language in which to consider them, again
and again and again!
 
BIOGRAPHY

Kristina Hooper Woolsey, director of the Apple Computer Multimedia Lab, was
trained as a cognitive scientist.  Over the past twenty years she has extended
this perspective into the development of image-based technologies in learning.
 
Dr. Woolsey received her Ph.D. in cognitive science from the University of
California at San Diego and her B.A. in cognitive psychology from Stanford
University.  In addition, she was the recipient of a post-doctoral fellowship
in architecture from the University of California at Berkeley.
 
Prior to joining Apple Computer, Ms. Woolsey was a faculty member at the
University of California at Santa Cruz and a visiting professor at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  She then worked at Atari's Research Lab
in Sunnyvale, California, where she was promoted to Director of Research and
Development.
 
Dr. Woolsey joined Apple Computer in 1985, and co-founded the Multimedia Lab in
1987.  As a member of the Advanced Technology Group, she applies her multimedia
production experience to research on the casual use of multimedia in our daily
lives.  In 1992, she was named one of Apple's Distinguished Scientists, a small
group that offers its expertise throughout the company.
 
She is co-editor with Sueann Ambron of two books on multimedia:  Interactive
Multimedia:  Visions of Multimedia for Developers, Educators & Information
Providers  and  Learning with Interactive Multimedia:  Developing and Using
Multimedia Tools in Education (Redmond, Washington:  Microsoft Press, 1988 and
1990).  She has been lead designer or executive producer of a number of recent
multimedia titles, including Life Story (Wings for Learning, 1992), The Visual
Almanac. (Optical Data, 1990), Interactive NOVA:  Animal Pathfinders
(Scholastic, 1991), and GTV:  A Geographic Perspective on American History
(Optical Data, 1991).
 
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Coming Attraction:

                                 September 8

                          Why Do Users Like Video?
     A Case Study in Developing Usable Multimedia Collaborative Technology
 
                                  John Tang
                                 SunSoft, Inc.


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                                About BayCHI

BayCHI, the San Francisco Bay Area ACM SIGCHI, is a group of user-interface
professionals who meet the second Tuesday of the month at 7:30 pm in the Xerox
PARC Auditorium. To join BayCHI, which will add you to the mailing list for the
newsletter, send a message to SAnderson.chi@xerox.com, or to BayCHI, PO Box
25, Menlo Park, CA 94026, and we will send you a membership form.  Membership
forms are also available at the BayCHI meetings.

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                         BayCHI Steering Committee

The BayCHI steering committee meetings are open to anyone who is interested
in attending.  The meetings are generally held the first Tuesday of the month
at 7:30 p.m.  Please contact any member of the committee for directions to the
meeting.

Chair:              Richard Anderson  rianderson.chi@xerox.com  510-482-0464

Vice Chair:         Rosemary Wick     wick.chi@xerox.com        415-328-3600

Treasurer:          Ulrike Creach                               415-423-0843

Past Chair:         Kathy Hemenway    hemenway.chi@xerox.com    408-685-0466

Program:            Richard Anderson  rianderson.chi@xerox.com  510-482-0464

Membership:         Ulrike Creach                               415-423-0843

Newsletter:         Steve Anderson    SAnderson.chi@xerox.com   510-423-3283

Job Bank:           Richard Yamauchi  yamauchi.chi@xerox.com    510-422-4178

SIGCHI Liason:      Don Patterson     patterson.chi@xerox.com

Publicity:          Susan Wolfe       wolfe_susan@tandem.com    408-285-2650

Dinner Coordinator: Kate Finn         finn@erg.sri.com          415-859-2124

Birds-of-Feather:   David Rowley      varian!rowley@lll-winken.llnl.gov
                    Desiree McCrorey  Desiree_McCrorey.M5_A_TO_M@smtp.esl.com
                    Lora Shirley      lora@ask.com

Elections:          David Simkin      david@makesys.com         415-941-9800

At-large:           Ellen Francik     francik.chi@xerox.com     510-867-8662
                    Clark Streeter    streeter.chi@xerox.com    510-422-4493


                                  BayCHI
                                P.O. Box 25
                           Menlo Park, CA  94026


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                            Directions to Xerox

>From Highway 280, take the Page Mill Road exit. Go east one mile to Coyote
Hill Road (no light) and turn right. Go 1/2 mile and PARC will be on your
left. Follow the signs to the auditorium.

>From 101, take the Oregon Expressway exit west 2 miles to El Camino Real.
Oregon Expressway becomes Page Mill Road at El Camino Real. Follow Page
Mill Road 1.7 miles to Coyote Hill Road (no light) and turn left. Coyote
Hill Road is just past the intersection with Foothill Expressway. Go 1/2
mile and PARC will be on your left. Follow the signs to the auditorium.