Questions and Goals for Workshop

Questions for Discussion

• Is there a next generation or just a set of disparate developments?
• What is common about these new interfaces, what things or ideas connect them? What differs?
• Taking reality-based interaction as a provisional concrete starting point, can we extend, expand, find support for, disagree with, discredit, or replace it or introduce alternative opposing or complementary approaches?
• Psychological evidence or theories.
• Ways to test or validate frameworks and concepts we develop.
• What can we say that gives us leverage to move forward, predict, understand, find sweet spots?
• Opportunities for new designs inspired by gaps uncovered by this thinking.

For Presentations

• Introduce your work or your position, current interface designs or research that you see as part of next-generation interaction.
• How does the notion of reality-based interaction fit—or not fit—your work or topic area? Details of where it does or doesn't fit if possible.
• Improvements/refinements/replacements/etc to reality-based framework; and/or alternative or complementary ideas on frameworks for next generation interfaces.

Workshop Goals

• A lens or common language for viewing, discussing, comparing, and advancing proposed innovative new interface developments and technologies—to provide some coordinate axes on which to put them into perspective and organize them.
• A research agenda for new work both in gaps suggested by our frameworks and in ways to evaluate or validate our frameworks.
• Create a community of HCI researchers who are thinking specifically about connecting our research to other developments in next generation interaction.

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