April 18, 2008 lecture by Steve Whittaker for the Stanford University Human Computer Interaction Seminar (CS547).



Steve Whittaker reviews the Digital Memories vision, briefly present various studies that challenge that vision, moving on to suggest an alternative approach to the topic that is informed by cognitive science, suggesting that instead of focusing on exhaustive capture we should be designing prosthetic memory devices that are (a) synergistic with our organic memories (b) have mechanisms for selecting and abstracting critical events from the memory record.

1. Designing Interactions that Combine Pen, Paper, and PC
2. Accountability of Presence: Location Tracking Beyond Privacy
3. Augmented Social Cognition
4. Designing a Health Care Interface
5. Toward Adaptive Services for Personal Archiving
6. Data Modeling and Conceptual Sketching in the Design Process
7. ChucK: A Computer Music Programming Language
8. Context Aware Computing: Understanding Human Intention
9. Adaptive Interaction Techniques for Sharing Design Resources
10. Technologies for Collaborative Democracy
11. Designing for Cuba: Necessary In(ter)vention
12. The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Memories
13. The Democratization of Ubiquitous Computing
14. Automatically Generating Personalized Adaptive User Interfaces
15. MySong: Automatic Accompaniment for Vocal Melodies
16. Automating & Customizing the Web With Keyword Programming
17. The Design Science of Collaboration
18. Tangible Media for Design and Inspiration

CS 547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (Seminar on People, Computers, and Design) is a Stanford University course that features weekly speakers on topics related to human-computer interaction design. The seminar is organized by the Stanford HCI Group, which works across disciplines to understand the intersection between humans and computers. This playlist consists of seminar speakers recorded during the 2007-2008 academic year.