Emerging technologies are allowing designers to become increasingly creative in enriching the Interaction between the user and computing environments. New interaction technologies and interface capabilities for software and web design are giving rise to a host of new issues. In this research, we highlight the issues arising from the following three questions:

1. Are usability concerns fundamentally different when the interface is more than simply a graphical user interface with the building blocks being primarily windows, icons, menus and pointing devices (WIMP)?
2. What are the usability issues when the interface poses a potential conflict between the human need for free artistic expression and the usability goals of reducing the effort to learn and perform a task?
3. Do multi-participant interactive environments give rise to a different set of usability questions than our experience has been with one-on-one interfaces?

Publications

		A.N. Badre, Usability and the New Media, CQS'98 conference proceedings, Rome , Italy, April, 1997.
		A.N. Badre and Annie Jakobs, A Museum on the WEB: Book Index Representation vs. Spatial Metaphor, IEEE Multimedia Conference Proceedings, June 1999.