This report reviews the status of Japanese R&D in human-computer interaction (HCI) technologies and applications. It covers fundamental HCI research; R&D and applications in computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW), information network services and infrastructure, consumer devices and entertainment interfaces, technology and tools for people with disabilities, nuclear power, robotic manufac...

Including Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) topics in courses of different levels may help students appreciate the importance of this field. Many didactic experiments have been previously described. These experiments are often related to the undergraduate or graduate levels, but some HCI topics should also be taught in middle-level professional education courses. However, students in this educat...

The introduction of new technologies leads to a more and more complex interactive systems design. In order to describe the future interactive system, the human computer interaction (HCI) domain uses specific models and tools. In another way, the Model Driven Engineering (MDE) approach has been proposed in software engineering domain in order to provide techniques and tools for dealing with mode...

Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is a discipline which aims at an established understanding and designing of different interfaces between humans and computers in a way that it defines systems that are enjoyable to use, are engaging and are accessible. In 1970’s, the development in HCI was majorly inclined towards “usability” of the interaction systems. Since then, HCI has set a positive growth ...

Both software applications and their development environment are becoming more and more distributed. This trend impacts not only the way software computes, but also how it looks. This article proposes a Human Computer Interface (HCI) template from three representative applications we have developed. These applications include a Multi-Agent System based software, a 3D Internet computer game with...

Just as AI has moved away from classical AI, human-computer interaction (HCI) must move away from what I call ‘good old fashioned HCI’ to ‘new HCI’ – it must become a part of cognitive systems research where HCI is one case of the interaction of intelligent agents (we now know that interaction is essential for intelligent agents anyway). For such interaction, we cannot just ‘analyze the data’, ...