Tutorial: 35. Managing Color in Interactive Systems

Mary A. Mooney, Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation

Benefits
You will learn perceptual, physiological and color management principles that underlie effective visual design with color. You will learn to apply these principles to the design of graphical user interfaces, information displays, products and virtual environments.

Origins
This tutorial has been revised from CHI 97.

Features

• perceptual, physiological and color management principles that underlie effective visual design with color
• learn to apply these principles to graphical user interfaces, information displays, products and virtual environments
• learn the basic properties of color and how to manipulate them within various color spaces
• learn to communicate more effectively about color

Audience
Anyone that designs or develops user interfaces which incorporate color including interface designers, human factors engineering, usability specialists and developers of online information.

Presentation
Lecture, slides, demonstrations.

Instructor
Mary A. Mooney is a Human Factors Engineer, Research Artist and Graphic Designer with Sun Microsystems. She has designed user interfaces for hardware products, television and Internet interfaces for companies such as Tandem Computer, Sybase, TCI, Sun and Time-Warner. In addition to her work in the computer domain, Mooney is an accomplished photographer and painter. She has taught computer graphics and spoken at several industry conferences. She is a member of SIGCHI and Color Marketing Group.

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