From: adelson@clam.rutgers.edu (beth Adelson) Subject: CONF: INTERCHI '93 WORKSHOPS: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Date: 19 Nov 92 02:28:13 GMT Message-ID: Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Crossposted from news.announce.conferences ------------------------------------------------------- INTERCHI '93 WORKSHOPS - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ------------------------------------------------------- FROM: Juergen Ziegler Workshops Chair Fraunhofer-Institut IAO Nobelstrasse 12, D-7000 Stuttgart 80, Germany Phone: +49 711 970 2334; Fax: +49 711 970 2300 e-mail: J_Ziegler@iao.fhg.de INTRODUCTION ------------ Workshops provide an extended forum for small groups (15-20 people) to exchange views on topics of common concern. INTERCHI'93 offers 11 workshops covering a wide range of issues in human-computer interaction (HCI). Workshops last 1-2 days and are held before the conference, on Saturday and Sunday, 24-25 April 1993. Participation in a workshop requires a small additional registration fee. Workshop participants are selected on the basis of position statements outlining the participant's views on the workshop theme and reason for interest in the workshop topic. Statements are typically 1-3 pages in length (exceptions are noted below) and should be submitted directly to the appropriate primary contact. The primary contact can also provide additional information about a particular workshop. A brief biography summarizing the participant's background, relevant experience, and current research or design activities should also be submitted, along with complete contact information (name, address, phone, fax, e-mail). Position statements for all workshops must be received by 5 February 1993. WORKSHOPS PROGRAM ----------------- ADVANCES IN TEACHING THE HCI DESIGN PROCESS Jenny Preece, Open University, UK Peter Gorny, University of Oldenburg, Germany Tom Hewett, Drexel University, USA Jean Gasen, USA Date: Saturday and Sunday, 24-25 April 1993 Teaching real-world processes such as computer system design is made particularly difficult by the young and rapidly evolving nature of the HCI discipline, especially when there is such a variety of approaches rather than a single tried and tested methodology. Consequently, HCI educators must present design in as meaningful and coherent a way as possible whilst at the same time acknowledging real-world practices. This is not an easy task. In this workshop we will briefly review typical life cycle oriented software design and then examine two approaches which provide ways of focusing on HCI design concerns. We will discuss the advantages of each and consider how to teach them to students. The first approach combines visualising the conceptual aspects of the design with rapid iterative testing, whilst the second approach focuses on designing for socio-technical issues. The overall aim of this workshop is to advance and innovate teaching of HCI design. To apply for this workshop, submit 3 copies of a 1-2 page position statement about a particular aspect of HCI design for which you have developed an innovative teaching technique. Contact Information: Jenny Preece Computing Department Mathematics Faculty Open University Milton Keynes, MK6 7AA, UK E-mail: J.J.Preece@open.ac.uk Tel: +44 908 652348 Fax: +44 908 653744 ----------------------------------------------------------- COMPUTER-AIDED ADAPTATION OF USER INTERFACES David Benyon, Open University, UK Thomas Kuehme, Siemens Corporate R&D, Germany Uwe Malinowski, Siemens Corporate R&D, Germany Piyawadee "Noi" Sukaviriya, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Date: Sunday, 25 April 1993 The adaptation of human-computer interfaces to the needs of individual users can improve user performance with interactive systems. However, challenges lie in helping users to understand and to manage adaptive behavior. The goal of this workshop is to explore possible dimensions of computer-aided interface adaptation. Position papers are sought from researchers with experience or interest in adaptive systems which address the following issues: User Involvement: How much user involvement in the adaptation process is appropriate for different types of adaptation (such as adaptation of help texts, menu and dialog box layout, etc.)? How much control over adaptation do users want to have and how much can they maintain before becoming confused? Understanding Adaptive Behavior: How can the system help users to understand a system-driven adaptation? How can the system provide insight into adaptation mechanisms (e.g., inspectable user models)? How can users be assisted in deciding whether a system-proposed adaptation is appropriate for them? Interface to Adaptation: How can users be enabled to accomplish more task-oriented adaptations rather than only low-level adjustments? What support can be given in the adaptation of complex interfaces (e.g., groupware, process control)? Contact Information: Uwe Malinowski Siemens AG, ZFE ST SN 71 Otto-Hahn-Ring 6 8000 Munich 83, Germany E-mail: malinowski@zfe.siemens.de Tel: +49 89 636 49505 Fax: +49 89 636 48000 ----------------------------------------------------------- HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION ADVANCES DERIVED FROM REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCES Michael E. Atwood, NYNEX Science & Technology, Inc., USA Jean McKendree, NYNEX Science & Technology, Inc., USA Date: Saturday afternoon and Sunday, 24-25 April 1993 The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum in which to share HCI advances derived from real-world settings and to discuss ways to make the transition from the laboratory to real-world settings more common and more timely. As HCI is an applied science, advances must come from applying and validating theories and techniques in a real-world setting. Workshop attendees will be those whose activities in real-world settings have resulted in HCI advances. This workshop is not a place, however, for people to exchange "war stories" about real-world applications; the focus will remain on HCI advances that can be shared with others and on identification of major problems which impede migration of HCI from the laboratory to the end-users. We seek a balance of participants with respect to nationality, research or practitioner orientation, scientific discipline, etc. Submit a 3-8 page position statement containing: brief description of project; number and nature of end-users; approach to design and implementation; "real-world" obstacles and lessons; HCI advances derived; things you might do differently next time. Contact Information: Mike Atwood/Jean McKendree NYNEX Science & Technology, Inc. 500 Westchester Avenue White Plains, New York 10604, USA E-mail: atwood@nynexst.com jean@nynexst.com Tel: +1 914 644 2582 +1 914 644 2319 Fax: +1 914 644 2561 ----------------------------------------------------------- COST EFFECTIVE USABILITY ENGINEERING: PRACTICAL STRATEGIES AND TECHNIQUES Nigel Bevan, National Physical Laboratory, UK Anne Schur, Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories, USA Date: Saturday and Sunday, 24-25 April 1993 The objectives of the workshop are to identify, from best of current practice, the strategies, techniques and tools which can be most appropriately applied in different design environments to ensure the usability of a product. Workshop results will be published in a book aimed at helping usability practitioners apply usability engineering cost-effectively throughout the product life cycle. Some of the questions the workshop will address are: How should users be involved? Which tools or techniques should be selected singly or in combination? How can the options selected be melded into an integrated usable package for use in the product's life cycle? How should criteria and risks be assessed? How can cost-benefit judgements be made? The workshop will bring together usability practitioners and tool developers from a range of nationalities and small and large organizations, who can contribute to the review of the state-of- the-art, and can offer insights into the categorization of existing strategies, techniques and tools. Position statements should be 3-5 pages and be suitable for circulation to other participants. Contact Information: Nigel Bevan National Physical Laboratory DITC, Teddington Middlesex, TW11 0LW, UK E-mail: nbevan@ess.cs.ucl.ac.uk Tel: +44 81 943 6993 (UK: 081 943 6993) Fax: +44 81 977 7091 (UK: 081 977 7091) ----------------------------------------------------------- WORKING WITH THE USERS THROUGHOUT THE LIFE CYCLE: NOMADIC PRACTICE IN USER CENTERED DESIGN Michael J. Muller, U S WEST Advanced Technologies, USA Date: Sunday, 25 April 1993 This workshop proposes the concept of "nomadic practice in user centered design" (Nomadic UCD). Nomadic UCD is a set of activities, approaches, technologies, and theoretical perspectives that help practitioners to work with users in the users' own work context. The goal is to analyze, design, develop, test, and deliver products and services that fit into the users' world-views and work-lives. Although a number of people are tacitly working in this area, we do so in the course of an overall practice that may also include fixed-location laboratory methods, field methods that focus on the developers' world or on the computer artifact, and an emphasis on DESIGN with the users rather than on the full development life cycle of activities with the users. This workshop will focus our attention on the nomadic aspects of our UCD practice throughout the life cycle, assess their value, and explore and improve our nomadic practice. Please send a 3-5 page position statement covering any aspect of activities, approaches, technologies, and/or theories of Nomadic UCD. Contact Information: Michael Muller U S WEST Advanced Technologies 4001 Discovery Drive Boulder, Colorado 80303 USA E-mail: michael@advtech.uswest.com Tel: +1 303 541 6564 Fax: +1 303 541 6003 ----------------------------------------------------------- REFLECTIVE PRACTITIONERS: MAGIC TO METHODOLOGY Cynthia Rainis, Digital Equipment Corporation, USA George Casaday, Digital Equipment Corporation, USA Rex Hartson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA Date: Saturday, 24 April 1993 How do you think about design? What methods do you use to understand how you or others design? How do you capture that individual and often intuitive "magic" that skilled HCI designers seem to perform? This workshop is about discovering effective methods for capturing practice and design methodology. We are interested in people, both HCI practitioners and researchers, who are trying to understand methods and practice in a systematic way. The focus of this workshop is on practice (how people are actually doing HCI design work) rather than theory. While we know some methods of data gathering, for example watching people design, asking questions, and doing reflective interviews, we truly do not know how to systematically capture and document HCI practice and methodology. The primary goal of this workshop is to discover and share methods and develop a pooled list of techniques for finding out about design. Participant selection will be based on the current work, methods of reflection, and reasons for interest in the workshop described in the position statement, along with a willingness to complete a pre-workshop design exercise. Contact Information: Cynthia Rainis Digital Equipment Corporation 129 Parker Street (PK03-1/21J) Maynard, Massachusetts 01754-2198, USA E-mail: rainis@timber.enet.dec.com Tel: +1 508 493 2829 Fax: +1 508 493 1121 ----------------------------------------------------------- RETHINKING THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS FOR HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION Yvonne Rogers, University of Sussex, UK Liam Bannon, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Christian Heath, University of Surrey, UK Date: Saturday afternoon and Sunday, 24-25 April 1993 The major goals of this workshop are to provide a forum where HCI researchers can discuss current concerns over the state of (cognitive) theory, examine more closely a number of alternative or extended frameworks that have been proposed, and seek some consensus on the relative strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to particular problems. The recent "turn to the social" will come under scrutiny. Particular emphasis will be placed on work incorporating an analysis of the role of artifacts and other social factors in the accomplishment of activities. Position statements should be substantive and either make a case for a particular theoretical position, describe the success or failure of particular approaches, or attempt some form of rapprochment between particular frameworks. Contributions describing the relation between theory and practice are also welcome. Contact Information: Yvonne Rogers School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences University of Sussex Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK yvonner@cogs.susx.ac.uk Tel: +44 273 606755, ext. 2414 Fax: +44 273 671320 Liam J. Bannon Computer Science Department Copenhagen University (DIKU) Universitetsparken 1 DK 2100, Copenhagen 0, Denmark E-mail: bannon@diku.dk Tel: +45 3532 1359 (direct), +45 3532 1400 (central office) Fax: +45 3532 1401 ----------------------------------------------------------- CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION John Thomas, NYNEX Science and Technology, USA Kumiyo Nakakoji, University of Colorado, USA Maddy Brouwer-Janse, Philips Eindhoven Lab (IPO), The Netherlands Wendy Kellogg, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Victor Kaptelinin, Institute of General and Educational Psychology, Russian Academy of Education Date: Saturday and Sunday, 24-25 April 1993 Continued progress in fielding truly usable systems will draw upon the ideas of HCI experts across the world to build interfaces that are usable by people of diverse cultural backgrounds. The first cross-cultural workshop was held at CHI'92. Based on the personal successes and failures of the participants, we identified four mechanisms for improving cross-cultural communication that will be incorporated into this workshop: 1. have cross-cultural teams solve real problems together, 2. a high quality solution should DEPEND upon the cross- cultural make-up of the team, 3. the team should build a "map" that puts all the differences in a common perspective, 4. inter-cultural bridges are built by specific individuals working together. In this workshop, participants will build a conceptual map that lays out cultural differences in HCI. Additional goals are to provide a medium for individual collaborations to emerge and to make concrete suggestions for follow-on activities. Different cultures have different meeting protocols. The "process" as well as the "product" of the workshop will reflect different cultural perspectives. Position statements should outline some aspect of the participant's cultural perspective on HCI, and may be submitted to whichever of the organizers may be most able to judge the value of the contribution. We are especially interested in achieving participation from a set of people that will span most of the major cultural perspectives on HCI. Contact Information: John Thomas NYNEX Science and Technology 500 Westchester Avenue White Plains, New York 10604, USA E-mail: thomas@nynexst.com Tel: +1 914 644 2143 (work) / +1 914 962 9609 (home) Fax: +1 914 644 2211 ----------------------------------------------------------- SPATIAL METAPHORS FOR USER INTERFACES Werner Kuhn, Technical University Vienna, Austria Andrew U. Frank, Technical University Vienna, Austria Date: Saturday and Sunday, 24-25 April 1993 A basic ingredient of modern user interfaces is the spatialization of abstract operations through metaphors. A wide range of spatial interface metaphors (e.g., based on desktops, navigation, rooms, museums, or perspective walls) demonstrates the crucial role of spatialization in HCI. Virtual reality takes spatialization beyond the static and generally flat office space toward user interfaces that rely heavily on human abilities to perform complex motion and perception tasks. However, our understanding of the role which spatialization plays in interaction is still quite limited. The workshop will bring together researchers and designers with an interest in exploiting spatial metaphors for user interfaces. The goals of the workshop are to review the structure and role of spatial metaphors in human cognition, to establish the properties of space and spatialization in existing user interfaces, and to identify approaches to exploit spatialization for interface design. Participants should have some familiarity with work on metaphors in HCI, in cognitive science, or both. Contact Information: Werner Kuhn Department of Geoinformation Technical University Vienna A-1040 Vienna, Austria E-mail: Kuhn@ELVVS1.tuwien.ac.at Tel: 43 1 58801 3788 Fax: 43 1 504 3535 ----------------------------------------------------------- MULTIMODAL AND MULTIMEDIA HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERFACES Klaus-Peter Faehnrich, Fraunhofer Institute IAO, Germany Karl-Heinz Hanne, Fraunhofer Institute IAO, Germany Gerard Ligozat, LIMSI, University Paris-Sud, France Date: Saturday afternoon and Sunday, 24-25 April 1993 Multimodal interfaces are extending the scope of HCI through advances such as of notepad computers and virtual reality systems. Multimedia and combined interfaces (e.g., gestural interaction systems) are also beginning to attract users. The goals of this workshop are to: - to define the basic concepts of and to establish a common framework for multimodal and multimedia (MM&MM) HCI - to explore the existing technology and interaction techniques in order to find paradigms useful in and applicable to the next generation of MM&MM HCI - to discuss the pros and cons of interaction styles and media usage in different cultures - to survey existing approaches of MM&MM HCI systems and the perspectives of new technologies in the scope of innovative applications - to bridge the gaps between designers of interactive systems, HCI researchers, and the providers of development tools We especially invite participants from industry, applied research, or universities with experience in MM&MM HCI. Contact Address: Karl-Heinz Hanne Fraunhofer Institut IAO Nobelstr. 12 7000 Stuttgart 80, Germany E-mail: hanne@iao.fhg.de Tel: +49 711 970 2413 Fax: +49 711 970 2401 ----------------------------------------------------------- EXPLORATORY SEQUENTIAL DATA ANALYSIS IN PRACTICE Penelope M. Sanderson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Carolanne Fisher, MAYA Design Group, USA Date: Saturday and Sunday, 24-25 April 1993 The purpose of this workshop is to gather together HCI colleagues engaged in various types of exploratory sequential data analysis (ESDA) to investigate more fully the different types of practice that exist and to discuss the implications for developing a principled approach to ESDA. ESDA is a working term coined to cover a loose set of research- and design-oriented data analysis activities in the human sciences which use time-stamped recorded data. These include verbal protocol analysis, conversation analysis, interaction analysis, behavioral observational studies, statistical sequential data analysis, and some kinds of cognitive task analysis. The goals of the workshop are: (1) to explore the conceptual foundations of different ESDA techniques and (2) to clarify and systematize, through examples and practical exercises, the advantages of disadvantages of different techniques for different research questions and types of data. Recognized authorities in different ESDA techniques will provide practical examples of the use of such techniques in the HCI domain. There will also be much discussion and problem solving among participants themselves, based upon data provided to them by workshop organizers and upon their own data. Through these experiences we can work towards a more principled way to approach research questions involving ESDA. Contact Information: Dr. P.M. Sanderson Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1206 West Green Street Urbana, Illinois, 61801, USA E-mail: psanders@psych.uiuc.edu Tel: +1 217 333 3523 or +39 332 789 111 Fax: +1 217 244 6534 ----------------------------------------- GENERAL INTERCHI CONTACT INFORMATION: INTERCHI '93 North-American Office Carol Klyver INTERCHI '93 North American Office P.O. Box 1279 1355 Redwood Way Pacifica, CA 94044 USA Tel: +1 415 738 1200 Fax: +1415 738 1280 E-mail: ic93-office-na.chi@xerox.com INTERCHI '93 European Office Until Novermber 30 1992: Elly Lammers or Charlotte White INTERCHI '93 European Office University of Twente P.O. Box 217 7500 AE Enschede The Netherlands tel.: +31-20-548 5591 fax.: +31-20-644 1746 E-mail: ic93-office.chi@xerox.com After December 1 1992: Elly Lammers Soerenseweg 32 7314 CE Apeldoorn The Netherlands tel.: +31-20-548 5591 fax.: +31-20-644 1746 E-mail: ic93-office.chi@xerox.com INTERCHI '93 is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer and Human Interaction (ACM/SIGCHI) under the aegis of the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) in cooperation with the IFIP Technical Committee 13 on Human Computer Interaction (IFIP TC 13). INTERCHI '93 is hosted by the Man Computer Interaction Group of the section on Social Aspects of Informations and Automation of the Dutch Computer Society (NGI, Nederlands Genootschap voor Informatica).