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

Entertainment Sessions All-at-Once

Tutorial: 33. Designing User Interfaces for Interactive Television

Monday 14:00 - 17:30.

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

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.


Papers: Entertainment

Tuesday 11:00 - 12:30.

Session Chair: Anna M. Wichansky, Oracle Corporation


Demonstrations: HCI Lessons from Games

Tuesday 14:00 - 15:30.

Session Chair: Tim Shea, Vivid Interface


Demonstrations: Avatars & Characters

Tuesday 16:00 - 17:30.

Session Chair: Kristian Simsarian, Swedish Institute of Computer Science


Special Interest Group: 10 Ways to Destroy a Perfectly Good Game Idea

Wednesday 08:30 - 10:00.

Organizer


Panel: Interactive Narrative: Stepping Into Our Own Stories

Wednesday 14:00 - 15:30.

Organizer

Panelists


Plenary: Alien Technology - Tools of Digital Production

Thursday 13:00 - 13:45.

Mark Swain
Disney Feature Animation

Digital production in filmmaking has exploded in the 90's. The newly converted digital artists have a lavish set of 2D and 3D packages at their disposal in today's multimedia software environments. These production tools enable them to depict a wide range of expressions and special effects. The key to making these tools not feel like alien technology is to accommodate the artist's workflow by placing needed tools into the artist's hands and by providing interfaces that conform to the artist. This talk will address the impact of user interface design on digital production in the fast-paced entertainment industry.

Mark Swain has been working in digital production for over 8 years. His work has appeared in dozens of national commercials, MTV's Liquid Television, feature films, and the 1990 SIGGRAPH Film and Video Theater. Mark is currently a Technical Director/Designer at Disney Feature Animation in Los Angeles.




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