Looking forward

Our research lies within the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), a discipline concerned with “the design, evaluation and implementation of interactive computing systems for human use and with the study of major phenomena surrounding them” [1]. HCI is a constantly moving field1. Changes in computing technologies extend their possible uses and modify the conditions of existing ones. People also adapt to new technologies and adapt them to their own needs. Different problems and opportunities for HCI thus regularly appear, and among them, it is not always easy to differentiate the news, incremental on what we already know, from the real significant new. In such a moving field, one needs a bearing, an articulated vision of where one wants to go. Over the recent years, we believe incremental news have unfortunately eclipsed fundamental HCI topics on which a lot of work remains to be done. In what follows, we summarize the essential elements of our vision and the associated long-term goals.