“Video Panel Session on Interactive Systems” by Baecker

SIGGRAPH has long provided a forum for the presentation, discussion, evaluation, and appreciation of beautiful algorithms and beautiful pictures. The Video Panel Session on Interactive Systems is a new SIGGRAPH event, affording us the opportunity to look at beautiful systems. The design of interactive systems and of their user interfaces is an art. We possess no systematic design methodology, no effective and universal method of evaluation. We speak in earnest praise of the importance of power, generality, flexibility, ease of use, ease of learning, robustness, and a dozen other universally admired attributes, but we do not know how to construct systems so that they are guaranteed to have these attributes.

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