Advanced Topics in Information Systems

Introduction

Prof. Beat Signer

Department of Computer Science

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

beatsigner.com

2 December 2005
 Seminar Organisation
▪ Prof. Beat Signer
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
PL9.3.60 (Pleinlaan 9)
+32 2 629 1239
[email protected]
wise.vub.ac.be/beat-signer
▪ Dr. Audrey Sanctorum
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
PL9.3.39 (Pleinlaan 9)
+32 2 629 3749
[email protected]

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 Seminar Organisation …
▪ Maxim Van de Wynckel
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
PL9.3.58 (Pleinlaan 9)
+32 2 629 3487
[email protected]

▪ Ekene Attoh
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
PL9.3.58 (Pleinlaan 9)
+32 2 629 3487
[email protected]

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 Seminar Organisation …
▪ Xuyao Zhang
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
PL9.3.39 (Pleinlaan 9)
+32 2 629 3749
[email protected]

▪ Isaac Valadez
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
[email protected]

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 Three Main Domains of the Seminar

Information Information
Systems & Visualisation
Management & Navigation
CISA

Information
Visualisation
Human-Machine & nd Navigation
Human-Information
Interaction

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 "As We May Think" (1945)

When data of any sort are placed in storage,

they are filed alphabetically or numerically,
and information is found (when it is) by
tracing it down from subclass to subclass.
It can be in only one place, unless duplicates
are used; one has to have rules as to which Vannevar Bush
path will locate it, and the rules are cumbers-
ome. Having found one item, moreover, one
has to emerge from the system and re-enter
on a new path. The human mind does not
work that way. It operates by association. ...

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 "As We May Think" (1945) …

... It affords an immediate step, however, to

associative indexing, the basic idea of which
is a provision whereby any item may be
caused at will to select immediately and
automatically another. This is the essential
feature of the memex. The process of tying Vannevar Bush
two items together is the important thing. ...
Vannevar Bush, As We May Think,
Atlanic Monthly, July 1945

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 "As We May Think" (1945) …
▪ Bush's article 'As We May Think'
(1945) is often seen as
the "origin" of hypertext
▪ Article introduces the Memex
▪ memory extender
▪ store and access information
Memex
▪ follow cross-references in the form
of associative trails between pieces
of information (microfilms)
▪ prototypical hypertext machine
▪ trail blazers are those who find delight in
the task of establishing useful trails

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 Video: Memex

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 The Mother of All Demos (1968)
▪ Douglas Engelbart and his colleagues
at the Stanford Research Institute
developed the oNLine System (NLS) as
part of the Augment Project
▪ vision about the future of interactive computing
▪ NLS was demonstrated at the Fall
Douglas Engelbart
Joint Computer Conference in 1968
▪ showed first practical use of hypertext
▪ computer mouse
▪ remote collaboration (connected computers)
▪ raster-scan video monitors
▪ screen windows
▪ ...
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 NLS Demo

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 Hypertext (1965)
▪ Ted Nelson coined the term hypertext
▪ Nelson started Project Xanadu in 1960
▪ first hypertext project
▪ non-sequential writing
▪ referencing/embedding parts of a document
in another document (transclusion)
→ transpointing windows Ted Nelson
▪ bidirectional (bivisible) links
▪ version and rights management
▪ XanaduSpace 1.0 was released as part of Project
Xanadu in 2007

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 Digital Documents as a Paper Simulator?
Most people don't understand the logic of the
concept: "What You See Is What You Get" is based
on printing the document out ("get" means "get
WHEN YOU PRINT IT OUT"). And that means a
metaphysical shift: a document can only consist of
what can be printed! This re-froze the computer
document into a closed rectangular object which Ted Nelson
cannot be penetrated by outside markings (curtailing
what you could do with paper). No marginal notes,
no sticky notes, no crossouts, no insertions, no
overlays, no highlighting - PAPER UNDER GLASS.

Ted Nelson, Geeks Bearing Gifts: How the Computer

World Got This Way, Mindful Press 2009

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 Video: Ted Nelson About Documents

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 Video: Apple Knowledge Navigator (1987)

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 Video: Sun Microsystems' Starfire (1994)

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 Video: Microsoft Productivity Vision (2015)

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 Video: A Day Made Out of Glass 2

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 Seminar Topics
1. File Management
▪ FileWeaver: Flexible File Management with Automatic Dependency
Tracking, Julien Gori, Han L. Han and Michel Beaudouin-Lafon,
Proceedings of UIST 2020, ACM Symposium on User Interface Software
and Technology, Virtual Event, USA, October 2020. [Gori2020.pdf]

2. Blockchain in IoT
▪ Decentralized IoT Data Management Using BlockChain and Trusted
Execution Environment, Gbadebo Ayoade, Vishal Karande, Latifur Khan
and Kevin Hamlen, Proceedings of IRI 2018, International Conference on
Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science, Salt Lake City, USA,
April 2018. [Ayoade2018.pdf]

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 Seminar Topics ...
3. Diagramming
▪ texSketch: Active Diagramming through Pen-and-Ink Annotations,
Hariharan Subramonyam, Colleen M. Seifert, Priti Shah and Eytan Adar,
Proceedings of CHI 2020, International Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems, Honolulu, USA, April 2020.
[Subramonyam2020.pdf]

4. Augmented Reality Interfaces

▪ RealitySketch: Embedding Responsive Graphics and Visualizations in
AR through Dynamic Sketching, Ryo Suzuki, Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Liyi
Wei, Stephen Diverdi, Wilmot W. Li and Daniel Leithinger, Proceedings
of UIST 2020, ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and
Technology, Virtual Event, USA, October 2020. [Suzuki2020.pdf]

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 Seminar Topics ...
5. Hybrid Positioning Systems
▪ A Simple Positioning System for Large-Scale Indoor Patrol Inspection
Using Foot-Mounted INS, QR Code Control Points, and Smartphone,
Tao Liu, Jian Kuang, Wenfei Ge, Peng Zhang and Xiaoji Niu, IEEE
Sensors Journal 21(4), February 2021. [Liu2021.pdf]

6. Indoor Positioning
▪ Mobile Synchronization Recovery for Ultrasonic Indoor Positioning,
Riccardo Carotenuto, Massimo Merenda, Demetrio Iero and Francesco
G. Della Corte, Sensors 20(3), January 2020. [Carotenuto2020.pdf]

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 Seminar Topics ...
7. Adaptive User Interfaces
▪ Adapting User Interfaces with Model-based Reinforcement Learning,
Kashyap Todi, Gilles Bailly, Luis A. Leiva and Antti Oulasvirta,
Proceedings of CHI 2021, International Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan, May 2021. [Todi2021.pdf]

8. Mobile UI Optimisation
▪ Optimizing User Interface Layouts via Gradient Descent, Peitong Duan,
Casimir Wierzynski and Lama Nachman, Proceedings of CHI 2020,
International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems,
Honolulu, USA, April 2020. [Duan2020.pdf]

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 Seminar Topics ...
9. Computational Design
▪ GRIDS: Interactive Layout Design with Integer Programming, Niraj
Ramesh Dayama, Kashyap Todi, Taru Saarelainen and Antti Oulasvirta,
Proceedings of CHI 2020, International Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems, Honolulu, USA, April 2020. [Dayama2020.pdf]

10.Human-Machine Collaboration
▪ How do Visual Explanations Foster End Users' Appropriate Trust in
Machine Learning?, Fumeng Yang, Zhuanyi Huang, Jean Clarice
Scholtz, Dustin L. Arendt, Proceeding of IUI 2020, International
Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Cagliari, Italy, March 2020.
[Yang2020.pdf]

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 Seminar Topics ...
11.AR/VR Authoring
▪ Creating Augmented and Virtual Reality Applications: Current Practices,
Challenges, and Opportunities, Narges Ashtari, Andrea Bunt, Joanna
Lynn McGrenere, Michael Nebeling, Parmit K. Chilana, Proceedings of
CHI 2020, International Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Systems, Honolulu, USA, April 2020. [Ashtar2020.pdf]

12.Context-aware Applications
▪ CAPturAR: An Augmented Reality Tool for Authoring Human-Involved
Context-Aware Applications, Tianyi Wang, Xun Qian, Fengming He,
Xiyun Hu, Ke Huo, Yuanzhi Cao, Karthik Ramani, Proceedings of UIST
2020, ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology,
Virtual Event, USA, October 2020. [Wang2020.pdf]

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 Seminar Topics ...
13.Dynamic Data Physicalisation
▪ Dynamic Composite Data Physicalization Using Wheeled Micro-Robots,
Mathieu Le Goc, Charles Perin, Sean Follmer, Jean-Daniel Fekete and
Pierre Dragicevic, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer
Graphics 25(1), January 2019. [LeGoc2019.pdf]

14.Haptic Interfaces
▪ HandMorph: A Passive Exoskeleton that Miniaturizes Grasp, Jun Nishida,
Soichiro Matsuda, Hiroshi Matsui, Shan-Yuan Teng, Ziwei Liu, Kenji
Suzuki and Pedro Lopes, Proceedings of UIST 2020, ACM Symposium
on User Interface Software and Technology, Virtual Event, USA, October
2020. [Nishida2020.pdf]

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 Seminar Topics ...
15.Thermal Feedback
▪ Trigeminal-based Temperature Illusions, Jas Brooks, Steven Nagels and
Pedro Lopes, Proceedings of CHI 2020, International Conference on
Human Factors in Computing Systems, Honolulu, USA, April 2020.
[Brooks2020.pdf]

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 Assignment of Topics
▪ Select 3 topics/papers from the presented list and mark
them (with A, B and C) according to your preferences
▪ Send an email with your choices (e.g. 6A, 8B, 14C) to
[email protected] no later than February 14
▪ Each student will be assigned a paper that has to be
presented in the seminar and the final seminar schedule
will be made available by next week

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 Seminar Organisation
▪ Presentation should be 30 minutes long (not longer but
also not shorter!)
▪ make use of the available time
▪ have some backup slides/material in case you finish too early and
for the Q&A
▪ Structure of your presentation
▪ introduction of topic and problem statement (5-10 mins)
▪ proposed approach (15-20 mins)
▪ review (5 mins)
- critical analysis
- at least two positive and two negative points about the paper

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 Seminar Organisation …
▪ Send a draft of your presentation to your supervisor no
later than one week before the presentation and arrange
a meeting with your supervisor
▪ you will get feedback about the structure and content of your
presentation
▪ Immediately after your presentation, please send us
([email protected]) your slides in order that we can
make them available for your colleagues on Canvas

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 Seminar Organisation …
▪ Each student has to write a report about their presented
paper/topic
▪ same structure as presentation
- introduction of topic and problem statement
- proposed approach
- review
▪ no longer than 5 pages
▪ send a draft to your supervisor to get some feedback
- arrange a meeting with your supervisor
▪ deadline for final report: May 18

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 Seminar Organisation …
▪ Each student will be
assigned as a reviewer
for two additional papers
▪ hand in a review via the
conference system
▪ deadline: at least a week
before the paper is presented
▪ Each student is assigned as a meta-reviewer for one paper
▪ hand in a metareview via the conference system
▪ based on the two reviews and the metareviewer's knowledge
▪ deadline: latest Sunday (midnight) before the paper is presented
▪ prepare at least two questions to open the discussion round
▪ template and example (meta-)reviews are available on Canvas

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 Seminar Organisation …
▪ Each student has to read the papers to be presented
every week before the seminar takes place and submit
two questions via an online form by latest Sunday
(midnight) before the lecture
▪ https://wise.vub.ac.be/atis/

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 Seminar Organisation …
▪ Final grade is based on
▪ presentation (70%)
▪ written report
▪ reviews and metareview
▪ active participation in the seminar and submitted questions
▪ Everybody is expected to read the papers before the
lecture takes place!
▪ after each presentation, there is enough time for questions and a
discussion about the topic and content of the paper
▪ Attendance to all presentations is mandatory!
▪ Schedule will be made available on Canvas
▪ first presentations: March 16

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 References
▪ Vannevar Bush, As We May Think,
Atlantic Monthly, July 1945
▪ https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush/
▪ https://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/Secondary.html
▪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c539cK58ees

▪ NLS demo
▪ https://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html

▪ Project Xanadu
▪ https://xanadu.com

▪ Ted Nelson demonstrates Xanadu Space

▪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En_2T7KH6RA

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 References ...
▪ Apple Knowledge Navigator (1987)
▪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb4AzF6wEoc

▪ Sun Microsystems' Starfire (1994)

▪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9OKcKisUrY

▪ Microsoft Productivity Future Vision (2015)

▪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-tFdreZB94

▪ A Day Made Out of Glass 2, Corning Inc.

▪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZkHpNnXLB0

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Next Week
Assign Topics and Answer Questions
Some Tips for the Presentation
Conference System

2 December 2005