The importance of being beautiful [user interfaces]

The paper presents some tools, techniques and concepts to optimize user interfaces and considers some World Wide Web home pages as examples of user interface design. The importance of being beautiful has implications for how we evaluate the usability of our designs. The paper discusses how user preference measures will be relatively more important than traditional measures such as tasks per minute     

DBMS[me] [life-time records]

The article is concerned with time and the deluge of data that we can expect to collect and view. We examine this from the perspective of a subproblem, a database management system that records a person's life in its entirety - referred to here as DBMS[me] and E-me (that is, a database of me or an electronic model of me). Challenges for the DBMS[me] are to augment human memory by recording all data about an individual, to organize such data into models, and to develop security and privacy languages to control access to such models.     

[反思]

如果一种观点得到广泛认同,或者受到权威的支持,成为某种标准和规则,总之,如果传言变为"格言",各方就能够获得一个相对正确的博弈信息;同时,沟通大家的信息,促使合作的形成,让"非合作"变成"合作",让整体最佳选择成为各方的决策结果,这才是我们所希望的.     

[风潮]

信息化中那些为我们熟悉的现象,他们都是由于对信息化传言的不同理解而导致的博弈结果,这些结果可以对当事人各方有利,但是总体上来看,它们是损害社会和国家利益的,是最差结果,导致了不健康的社会风潮.     

[博弈]

信息化中类似的博弈,不仅在政府之间展开,而且在信息化的相关各方之间都存在,比如政府与行业企业(传统产业)之间的博弈,行业企业之间关于信息化的博弈,政府与IT企业之间的博弈,行业企业与IT企业之间的博弈,IT企业之间的博弈,等等.     

[传言]

分析传言还只是第一步,更重要的工作是要认清:面对这些传言,人们会采取什么的举动,这些举动会造成或者已经造成什么的后果,以及应该采取哪些办法来防治恶劣的后果的再发生.     

Correction [Errata]

In the March 2007 issue of IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, the last line of the obituary titled "George Nikolaos Saridis - Founding President, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society" on pp. 122-123 was cut off due to a printing error. The correct text is given.     

[Without Title]

Letter from the Editor

      

[Without Title]

Letter from the Editors