The Design of Future Educational Interfaces provides a new multidisciplinary synthesis of educational interface research.

Sharon Oviatt is well known for her extensive work in educational interfaces, human-centered interface design, multimodal and mobile interfaces, and communications interfaces. She has been recipient of a National Science Foundation Special Creativity Award for pioneering work on mobile multimodal interfaces, and first place recipient of the Ina Coolbrith Award. She has published over 130 scientific articles in a wide range of venues in the computational, learning, and cognitive sciences. She is an Associate Editor of the main journals and edited book collections in the field of human interfaces, including The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook. She was a founder of the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI), which became an annual ACM-sponsored international conference series under her guidance. In 2007, she founded Incaa Designs (http://www.incaadesigns.org/), a Seattle-area nonprofit that researches, designs, and evaluates the impact of innovative new educational interfaces.

Section I: Evolutionary and Neurological Basis for Educational Interface Design

Chapter 1. Innovative Tool Use, Cognitive Evolution, and Implications for Educational Interfaces

Section II: Existing and Future Interfaces

Chapter 2. Keyboard Interfaces: The Bottleneck Constricting Communication and Performance

Chapter 3. Rethinking the Interface as a Communications Power Tool for Stimulating Ideas and Problem Solving

Chapter 4. Rethinking the Interface as a Communications Power Tool for Supporting Inferential Reasoning

Chapter 5. Emerging Interface Directions for Supporting Conceptual Change

Section III: Foundational Elements of Communications Interface Design

Chapter 6. Support for Multiple Representations

Chapter 7. Support for Multiple Modalities

Chapter 8. Support for Multiple Linguistic Codes

Chapter 9. Theoretical Frameworks for Advancing Educational Interfaces

Section IV: Building Educational Interfaces of the Future

Chapter 10. Designing Integrated Interfaces that Stimulate Activity

Chapter 11. Fostering Meta-Awareness about Technology and Its Impact

Chapter 12. Implications for Future Empirical, Theoretical & Policy Directions