A grand challenge for HCI

Creativity Support Tools: A Grand Challenge for HCI Researchers

During the past 40 years, computing professionals have been enormously successful in developing productivity support tools for many users, so that they can perform their work more rapidly, effectively, and with fewer errors. Now, computing professionals are turning their attention to developing creativity support tools, which enable users to explore, discover, imagine, innovate, compose, and co...

Usable Privacy and Security: A Grand Challenge for HCI

In this position paper, we argue that usable privacy and security is a grand challenge that needs more attention from the HCI community. We also discuss benefits to and new challenges for HCI, and use our research experiences to provide a critique of HCI. Usable Privacy and Security: A Grand Challenge for HCI Jason I. Hong Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh PA 15213

A Grand Challenge for Nutrigenomics

The low hanging fruit in genetics research has mostly been harvested, and now the work of studying genes as part of systems biology is well underway. Metabolism and nutrition seem to be an ideal complex system in which to apply the knowledge and methods of genetics and genomics. Diet is perhaps the most important environmental factor we are exposed to. Nutritional factors are thought to be the ...

A Grand Challenge

Interactive Numbers a Grand Challenge

Numbers are used everywhere, but today numbers are mostly created and used interactively; they are not just passive written objects. People interact with numbers in almost every area of life. However, different styles of interactive number have different design trade-offs, particularly when human error is considered. To date, human error in interactive numbers has hardly been explored, resultin...