Workshop: 3. Incorporating Work, Process and Task Analysis into Industrial Object-Oriented Systems Design

John Artim, OOCL; Mark van Harmelen, Cutting Edge

Discussion at last year's workshop, "Object-Oriented Models in User Interface Design," examined the role of object modeling in user interface design. Workshop participants collaborated on a framework describing user interface design in the software development life cycle. This framework is described in the October 1997 issue of SIGCHI Bulletin. We take as a starting point this framework. The goal of this workshop is to produce a method and notation framework to support the use of task, process and work analysis and modeling as a source of objects for system design and a determinant for suitable end user support by the system.

Potential participants should submit a position paper of approximately 2000 words that describes experience or theory relating to:

• The role of task, process and work analysis in object identification and user interface design
• The role of additional techniques such as ethnography
• Methods and notations in user interface design and their role in collaboration with object-oriented development teams
• User interface architectures in object-oriented development
• The role and content of meta-models in user interface design and collaborative development of the interface
• Tool support issues
• Levels of formality in models of user interfaces
• Any flaws and difficulties in these approaches

Papers should, where appropriate, build upon last year's workshop discussion as expressed in the SIGCHI Bulletin article.

Contact
John Artim
OOCL (USA), Inc.
2841 Junction Ave., Suite 200
San Jose, CA 95134 USA
Tel: +1 408 576 6494
Email: jartim@acm.org