Metaverse, HCI, and Its Future

HCI Research: Future Challenges and Directions

This commentary reflects my personal views of the future research challenges and directions in human-computer interaction (HCI) research in the field of Management Information Systems (MIS). It may be that many in our community do not share my concerns about the issues I consider important and the challenges we face. My intent here is not to argue that others should pursue approaches similar to...

Metaverse Loop-String Cosmology

Most theories of everything (TOEs) like string theory are based on physics. But there are as well TOEs based on "mathematics" being fundamental to a reality based on science. In particular, one math-TOE is based on the discrete natural numbers famously used by Godel to derive his Incompleteness Theorems. Such math computational theories (math-comp) assume that the comp-machine has an infinite c...

I. The Metaverse

3 Hci , Usability and Software Engineering Integration : Present and Future

In the last five years, several studies and workshops have highlighted the gap between software design approaches in HCI (Human Computer Interaction) and software engineering. Although the fields are complementary, these studies emphasize that they are not well integrated with each other. Several frameworks have been proposed for integrating HCI and usability techniques into the software develo...

Cognitive Architectures in HCI: Present Work and Future Directions

This paper serves as the overview and introduction to a symposium of the same name. The symposium is made up of this introduction and six other papers on cognitive architectures in HCI. As many readers may not be familiar with cognitive architectures, a description of what cognitive architectures are is presented first. In an effort to be accessible to a wide audience, this description is fairl...