CHI 98 Conference Program April 18-23, 1998, Los Angeles, CA USA

Erika Kindlund Sessions

Tutorial: 36. Current Issues in Web Design

Monday 18:00 - 21:30.

Jakob Nielsen, Sun Microsystems; Bruce 'Tog' Tognazzini, Healtheon; Erika Kindlund, JavaSoft

Benefits
You will gain an understanding of the current trends on the Web and their impact on the changing requirements for Web design.

Origins
This is a new tutorial for CHI 98.

Features
An exact list is impossible to provide because this tutorial will deal with issues that are current at the time of the conference. Some possible topics include:

Audience
Anyone interested in learning about current trends in Web design. Experience with the Web, basic Web trends and technologies, and Web design and usability is assumed.

Presentation
Lecture, demonstrations, case studies and discussion of issues raised by participants.

Instructors
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 as well as online services and pre-Web hypertexts. In 1996, Bruce Tognazzini left his position as a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems to become Principal Scientist at Healtheon, a start-up company devoted to moving the medical industry onto the Internet. Erika Kindlund is a usability engineer at the JavaSoft division of Sun Microsystems. She conducts usability studies on the JavaSoft product line and evaluates emerging Web-enabling technologies and their impact on the user experience. Prior to joining Sun, Erika was a Human Factors Engineer at IBM's Santa Teresa Labs, developing multimedia database technology. She has also been a research scientist with the Interactive Multimedia Group at Cornell University, where she investigated collaborative design within networked multimedia environments.

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