Saturday, April 18, All-at-Once

18:00 - 21:00

Consortium: Doctoral Consortium

The CHI 98 Doctoral Consortium is a closed session that provides an opportunity for Ph.D. students to explore their research interests in an interdisciplinary workshop with established researchers in a group setting. The participants receive feedback on current research and guidance for future research directions. The consortium also aims toward the development of a supportive community of scholars while contributing to the conference goals through interaction with other researchers and participation in conference events. Consortium participants have been invited based on their dissertation proposals, and reflect the wide range of disciplines within HCI research.

Doctoral Consortium Faculty Members

• Deborah A. Boehm-Davis, Co-Chair, George Mason University
• Clayton Lewis, Co-Chair, University of Colorado, Boulder
• Bonnie E. John, Carnegie Mellon University
• William Newman, Rank Xerox Research Centre Europe

Participants

• Karen Orr Vered, U. of Southern CA, "Schooling in the Digital Domain: Gendered Play and Work in the Classroom Context"
• Alvin Yeo, U of Waikato (N. Zealand), "Cultural Effects in Usability Assessment"
• Kerry Rodden, U. Cambridge, "About 23 million documents match your query..."
• Anthon Hornof, U. of Michigan, "The Low-Level Cognitive Processes Involved in the Visual Search of Pull-Down Menus and Computer Screens, as Revealed by Cognitive Modeling"
• Neil T. Heffernan, Carnegie Mellon, "Intelligent Tutoring Systems have Forgotten the Tutor: Adding a Cognitive Model of Human Tutors"
• Christopher Hundhausen, U. of Oregon, "Toward Effective Algorithm Visualization Artifacts: Designing for Participation and Negotiation in an Undergraduate Algorithms Course"
• Dario Salvucci, Carnegie Mellon, "Interpreting Eye Movements with Process Models"
• Michelle X. Zhou, Columbia U., "Automated Visual Discourse Synthesis: Coherence, Versaltility, and Interactivity"
• Susanne Jul, U. of Michigan, "Computational Implications of Human Navigation in Multiscale Electronic Worlds"
• Ramon M. Felciano, Stanford U., "Graphical Style Sheets: Towards Reusable Representations of Biomedical Graphics"
• David VanEsselstyn, Columbia U., "The Effect of Accompanying Media on Spatial Models Derived from Text"
• Allan Christian Long, Jr., U. C. Berkeley, "Improving Gestures and innteraction Techniques for Pen-Based User Interfaces"
• Carol Traynor, U. of Massachusetts-Lowell, "Putting Power in the Hands of End Users: A Study of Programming by Demonstration, with an application to Geographical Information Systems
• Chris North, U. of Maryland, Robust, "End-User Programmable, Multiple-Window Coordination"
• John F. Pane, Carnegie Mellon, "Designing a Programming System for Children with a Focus on Usability"

18:00 - 21:30

Tutorial: 1. Human-Computer Interaction: Introduction and Overview

Keith A. Butler, Boeing Information and Support Services; Robert J. K. Jacob, Tufts University; Bonnie E. John, Carnegie Mellon University

Benefits
If you are a newcomer to the HCI field, this tutorial will give you the background you need to get the most out of the CHI conference.

Origins
This tutorial is a tried-and-true introduction to the field of HCI. It has become a CHI conference tradition.

Features

• what is HCI and why is it important
• brief history of HCI
• introduction to building usable systems
• introduction to the psychology of HCI
• introduction to computer technologies for HCI
• future directions of HCI
• where to learn more during CHI 98
• where to learn more in the published HCI literature

Audience
Professionals from computing-related fields who are new to the field of human-computer interaction. No background in HCI is assumed.

Presentation
Lecture and small-group activities.

Instructors
Keith Butler is a senior principal scientist for user-centered design at Boeing; previously, a member of the technical staff at Bell Labs. Rob Jacob is a faculty member at Tufts University's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department; previously, in the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the Naval Research Laboratory. He is a on the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. Bonnie John is a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science and Psychology Departments and HCI Institute; previously, a mechanical engineer at Bell Laboratories designing data- and telecommunications systems. Her research develops "engineering models" of computer users and applies them to the evaluation and design of computer systems.

Related Tutorials
Other suggested choices for newcomers:

• 2. Introduction to Web Design (Saturday evening)
• 7. Cognitive Factors in Design: Basic Phenomena in Human Memory and Problem Solving (Sunday)
• 28. Avoiding Damned Lies: Understanding Statistical Ideas (Monday)

Tutorial: 2. Introduction To Web Design

Jakob Nielsen, Sun Microsystems

Benefits
You will learn how to design compelling, easy to use, well-structured and attractive Web sites, as well as simple and efficient methods for testing Web sites for usability.

Origins
This tutorial was highly attended at CHI 96 and CHI 97. Earlier versions were also presented at the World Wide Web Consortium's WWW'4, WWW'5 and WWW'6 conferences.

Features

• understand customer-centric Web design
• learn how to
  • conduct competitive usability analysis of other sites
  • use card sorting to discover users' mental model of the information space
  • conduct user testing of Web designs
  • test early designs with paper prototypes
  • perform icon intuitiveness testing
  • redesign a Web site
  • designing for an international audience
• guidelines for usable Web design

Audience
Anyone responsible for authoring, designing and managing Web sites. Anyone with prior experience with the Web who understands the basic nature of Web pages.

Presentation
Lecture and small-group activities.

Instructor
Jakob Nielsen is a Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer. He was the user interface lead for the redesign of Sun's WWW pages, co-designed Sun's Intranet and has contributed to user interfaces for several other Web projects, online services and pre-Web hypertexts. Dr. Nielsen's most recent book is Designing Exceptional Websites: Secrets of an information Architect (New Riders, November 1997). Other books include Multimedia and Hypertext: the Internet and Beyond, Usability Engineering, Usability Inspection Methods (with Robert L. Mack) and International User Interfaces (with Elisa del Galdo).

Related Tutorials

• 6. Java-Based User Interface Design and Development (Sunday)
• 15. Web Site Design From the Trenches (Sunday)
• 24. Web Sites that Work: Designing with Your Eyes Open (Monday)
• 36. Current Issues in Web Design (Monday evening)

Tutorial: 3. Information Visualization

Stuart K. Card, Xerox PARC; Stephen G. Eick, Bell Labs; Nahum Gershon, MITRE

Benefits
You will gain a working knowledge of the emerging field of information visualization including retrieved information from large document collections, the Web and databases.

Origins
This successful CHI 97 tutorial has been revised for CHI 98.

Features

• know when visualization improves usability
• learn about the perceptual and cognitive principles behind information visualization
• explore visualization and interaction techniques: hierarchies, landscapes and nets
• case studies, including WWW browsing and querying, are used to demonstrate key concepts

Audience
Participants should have interest in understanding this emerging and significant area and some basic knowledge in graphics and visualization.

Presentation
Lecture and demonstrations.

Instructors
Stuart Card, a XEROX Research Fellow, manages the User Interface Research group at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center performing research on theory and design of interactive computing systems. Card is co- author of the ACM SIGCHI Curriculum Report, and has instructed three tutorials at the CHI Conferences. Stephen G. Eick, the Technical Manager of the Data Visualization Research Group at Bell Labs, does research on extracting and visualizing latent in large databases (abstract networks, software source code and text corpora) using novel interactive visualizations. Eick presented tutorials on perception at SIGGRAPH 94, 95 and 96 and a software visualization tutorial at Visualization 93. Nahum Gershon, a Principal Scientist at The Mitre Corporation, works on information and data visualization, network browsers, image processing, data organization, and analysis of medical, environmental and other multidimensional data. He explores how knowledge of the human perceptual system can be exploited when designing visualization systems.

Related Tutorial

• 23. Information Visualization: Advanced Interface and Web Design (Monday)

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