| CHI 98 Conference Program | April 18-23, 1998, Los Angeles, CA USA |
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Phillipe Palanque, University Toulouse 1; Fabio Paterno, CNUCE-CNR; Peter Wright, University of York
When designing user interfaces for safety critical systems designers must satisfy both usability and safety requirements at both the specification and implementation level. These systems have human operators and increasingly their role is mediated by computer technology. Clearly, in this domain, usability issues can have potentially disastrous consequences, yet CHI conferences have not addressed this type of application. We believe that the design of user interfaces in this area requires the use of innovative technologies for supporting user interactions and the support of many kinds of skills and backgrounds to be addressed effectively.
The challenge of the workshop is to bring together researchers from the disciplines of software engineering and human factors to consider issues in safety critical system design which are at the intersection of usability and safety. Areas of concern are requirements analysis, specification, testing and evaluation.
We will focus on specific issues which we feel are relevant in this application area:
More information is available at http://lis.univ-tlse1.fr/~palanque/wschi98.html.
Contact
Philippe Palanque
University Toulouse 1
Place Anatole France
31042 Toulouse Cedex France
Tel: +33 561 63 35 88
Email: palanque@cict.fr
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