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