| CHI 98 Conference Program | April 18-23, 1998, Los Angeles, CA USA |
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Keith A. Butler, Boeing Information and Support Services; Robert J. K. Jacob, Tufts University; Bonnie E. John, Carnegie Mellon University
Benefits
If you are a newcomer to the HCI field, this tutorial will give you the
background you need to get the most out of the CHI conference.
Origins
This tutorial is a tried-and-true introduction to the field of HCI. It has become
a CHI conference tradition.
Features
Audience
Professionals from computing-related fields who are new to the field of
human-computer interaction. No background in HCI is assumed.
Presentation
Lecture and small-group activities.
Instructors
Keith Butler is a senior principal scientist for user-centered design at Boeing;
previously, a member of the technical staff at Bell Labs. Rob Jacob is a faculty
member at Tufts University's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Department; previously, in the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the Naval
Research Laboratory. He is a on the editorial board of ACM Transactions on
Computer-Human Interaction. Bonnie John is a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon
University's Computer Science and Psychology Departments and HCI Institute;
previously, a mechanical engineer at Bell Laboratories designing data- and
telecommunications systems. Her research develops "engineering models" of
computer users and applies them to the evaluation and design of computer systems.
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