Tutorial: 33. Designing User Interfaces for Interactive Television

Dale Herigstad, Dale Herigstad Design; Anna M. Wichansky, Oracle

Benefits
You will learn how to design and evaluate user interfaces for interactive television, Internet appliances using television displays and interactive kiosks. You will understand the differences between computer and television technologies.

Origins
This is a new tutorial for CHI 98.

Features

• understand the differences between computer and television technologies
• how to create visual designs for television displays
• how to create software interaction models for infrared remote controls and keyboards
• how to develop or select a usable input device for television applications
• how to develop user profiles lab facilities, and test protocols for evaluating television application usability

Audience
User interface professionals interested in designing and testing interfaces for interactive TV. Basic knowledge of user interface design, development and testing is assumed.

Presentation
Lecture, demonstrations, videos and group exercise.

Instructors
Dale Herigstad is an Emmy Award-winning director/designer of motion graphics for television and film since 1978, and interaction designer since 1991. His credits include TV and film graphics for Robert Abel, Rhythm & Hues, other West Coast design and production studios, the TCI and Time Warner Full Service Network (FSN) interactive television trials, and on-air graphics for the CBS Winter Olympics. Anna Wichansky is an applied experimental psychologist specializing in how people interact with technology. She has worked in the telecommunications and computing industries since 1978. At Silicon Graphics, Inc., she managed development of the remote control for the FSN Orlando trial and conducted usability evaluations of Dale's designs. She contributed to design and testing of the NC UI at Oracle Corporation, where she now manages the Usability Engineering Labs.