Jen Mankoff
I went to a pretty interesting talk this morning by Jen Mankoff about handling ambiguity and errors in recognition systems. Though the coolest thing wasn’t really related, but was a prototyping tool called SILK. It lets you sketch out a design on a computer, then renders that design into interface components. This is really cool! The problem that my UI group has run into is translating our paper designs into a testable interface without having to use something as high-fidelity as Java or VB. I really want to try this now.
update: So I was pointed to DENIM, a related project put out by the Group for User Interface Research at Berkeley.
update: James Landay is the person responsible for both SILK and DENIM.