| CHI 98 Conference Program | April 18-23, 1998, Los Angeles, CA USA |
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Birgit Bomsdorf, University of Paderborn; Gerd Szwillus, University of Paderborn
It is generally accepted that the tasks the user has to fulfill with a system should play an important role in its design. Knowing the user's tasks enables the designer to construct user interfaces reflecting the tasks' properties, including efficient usage patterns, easy-to-use interaction sequences and powerful assistance features. As a consequence, task modeling becomes a central part of the user interface design process. To accomplish this, a systematic transition has to exist from task identification to user interface construction. Hence, a task model of how the user performs her or his tasks with the system has to be defined. This model contains the task structure, the division of labor between user and system as well as information about the objects used within tasks. The result of this design phase is a dialogue model: a constructive abstraction of the finally implemented user interface.
The goal of our workshop is to learn more about the transition from task model to dialogue model. We will bring together people with expertise in this domain in order to collect, structure and interrelate work dealing with this non-trivial transition. We will discuss practical design projects where this problem showed up, research on theoretical, systematic approaches to the problem and development of tools and techniques supporting the transition.
The workshop is directed at people from academia, research departments of companies or software development companies dealing with practical user interface design problems. All participants should be actively interested in task and dialogue modeling and in the transition from one model to the other.
More information is available at http://www.uni-paderborn.de/fachbereich/AG/szwillus/chi98ws/index.html.
Contact
Gerd Szwillus
University of Paderborn
Fachbereich Mathematik/Informatik
D-33095 Paderborn Germany
Tel: +49 5251 606624
Email: szwillus@uni-paderborn.de