User Interface Working Group Discussions

Abstract

The Working Group membership was as follows:

• Austin Tate (Chairman)

• David Barnes

• Steve Cook

• Martin Cooper

• Arthur Foster

• Brad Myers

• William Newman

• Ken Robinson

• Warren Teitelman

• Harold Thimbleby

(Warren Teitelman joined the Architecture Working Group after the first two sessions.) The main goal of all the Working Groups was a better understanding of the issues involved in their respective areas. Given the wide range of user types, applications, and window managers seen by the Working Group, the difficulty of providing concrete, all-embracing decisions can readily be envisaged. The Final Report in the next chapter attempts to classify the influences on the User Interface (UI), and presents conclusions on some of the issues discussed. This chapter is essentially (if not essential) background reading to that report, providing some of the more detailed reasoning that underpinned some of the decisions, and presenting some matters which, although they did not appear in the report, nevertheless are of interest. The following sections are, for convenience of cross reference, numbered as in the final report.