Design of Future Educational Interfaces

Sharon Oviatt is well known for her extensive work in educational interfaces, human-centered interface design, multimodal and mobile interfaces, and communications interfaces. She has been recipient of a National Science Foundation Special Creativity Award for pioneering work on mobile multimodal interfaces, and first place recipient of the Ina Coolbrith Award. She has published over 130 scientific articles in a wide range of venues in the computational, learning, and cognitive sciences. She is an Associate Editor of the main journals and edited book collections in the field of human interfaces, including The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook. She was a founder of the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI), which became an annual ACM-sponsored international conference series under her guidance. In 2007, she founded Incaa Designs (http://www.incaadesigns.org/), a Seattle-area nonprofit that researches, designs, and evaluates the impact of innovative new educational interfaces.

• Section I: Evolutionary and Neurological Basis for Educational Interface DesignChapter 1. Innovative Tool Use, Cognitive Evolution, and Implications for Educational InterfacesSection II: Existing and Future InterfacesChapter 2. Keyboard Interfaces: The Bottleneck Constricting Communication and PerformanceChapter 3. Rethinking the Interface as a Communications Power Tool for Stimulating Ideas and Problem SolvingChapter 4. Rethinking the Interface as a Communications Power Tool for Supporting Inferential ReasoningChapter 5. Emerging Interface Directions for Supporting Conceptual ChangeSection III: Foundational Elements of Communications Interface DesignChapter 6. Support for Multiple RepresentationsChapter 7. Support for Multiple ModalitiesChapter 8. Support for Multiple Linguistic CodesChapter 9. Theoretical Frameworks for Advancing Educational InterfacesSection IV: Building Educational Interfaces of the FutureChapter 10. Designing Integrated Interfaces that Stimulate ActivityChapter 11. Fostering Meta-Awareness about Technology and Its ImpactChapter 12. Implications for Future Empirical, Theoretical & Policy Directions