Stanford Seminar - Generative, Malleable, and Personal User Interfaces

January 31, 2025
Haijun Xia, UC San Diego

For far too long, we have been stuck with the legacy graphical user interface paradigm: information is treated as static, lifeless data; computation is confined to predefined, rigid commands; and applications are bloated and siloed. Recent AI breakthroughs now enable us to envision entirely new interface paradigms. In my lab, we are exploring the following questions. What is the form of a new interface paradigm? How would our information environment be transformed? What are some of the invariants of interaction that we can grasp to gain clarity of potential effective paradigms? In this talk, I will share a specific paradigm we have been exploring and our approach towards it.

About the speaker:
Haijun Xia is an Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science and Design at the University of California, San Diego, where he also leads the Foundation Interface Lab. His research focuses on developing dynamic, malleable, and adaptive interfaces that seamlessly blend human cognition with intelligent computation, laying the foundation for future information environments that foster productive and convivial information activities. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, as well as a master and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto.

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