| CHI 98 Conference Program | April 18-23, 1998, Los Angeles, CA USA |
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Cliff Wilding, The Hiser Group
Benefits
You will learn the principles of good screen design, including a detailed
examination of screen layout, templates and metaphors.
Origins
This is a new tutorial for CHI 98.
Features
Audience
Computer professionals involved in user interface design, including systems
analysts, business analysts, software developers, multimedia developers and
computer-based training authors. It is an advantage if attendees are familiar
with GUIs and/or GUI design.
Presentation
Presentation and hands-on exercises.
Instructor
Cliff Wilding is from Melbourne, Australia, and is a senior consultant with The
Hiser Group, a user interface design and usability consultancy. He specializes in
contextual inquiry, user interface design, participatory design and usability
testing for commercial and in-house applications. Platforms range from
traditional GUI operating systems to new media and the Web. Most of his time is
spent on project work for clients in the Australian government and industry,
including Telstra, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Australia Post, Health
Insurance, BHP and the Royal Australian Air Force.
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Aaron Marcus, Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc.
Benefits
You will learn how to manage the fundamental concepts, terms, images and sounds
for metaphors in productivity tools, multimedia and Web products and services,
including data displays.
Origins
This is a popular tutorial from previous CHI conferences.
Features
Audience
Researchers and developers who may have designed user interfaces but have not
studied metaphors specifically. Oriented toward practical user interface
designers as well as those interested in visual communication, art history and
anthropological aspects of computer interfaces.
Presentation
Lecture, case-study analyses, small-group design exercises and demonstrations.
Instructor
Aaron Marcus, president of Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. of Emeryville, CA
and New York, NY, has presented tutorials since 1980. He founded his user
interface design firm in 1982. He has written or co-authored four books on
visual communication and over 100 articles, essays and papers on metaphor design,
and visual communication.
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Suzanne Watzman, Watzman Information Design
Benefits
You will learn principles of visual communication from historical art and images,
visual communication and information design. Explore these principles through
examples, exercises and individual and group activities.
Origins
This is a new tutorial for CHI 98, but is based on established seminar series and
tutorials.
Features
Audience
Anyone who is involved in the design and presentation of visual information
including visual designers, software developers, researchers, programmers,
interface designers, human factors specialists and developers of online
information.
Presentation
Interactive lecture, slides, demonstrations, drawing exercises and guided
individual and group activities.
Instructor
Suzanne Watzman is president and founder of Watzman Information Design. Her work
focuses on making things easier to understand and use including interactive
environments, branding and organizational identity, technical communications,
conceptual graphics and interface design. She has taught professional courses at
MIT, Massachusetts College of Art, IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory; has
presented tutorials on visual, graphic and information design at CHI 92, CHI 94,
Hypertext, Swiss Ergonomics Society and Influent Technologies.
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Mary A. Mooney, Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation
Benefits
You will learn perceptual, physiological and color management principles that
underlie effective visual design with color. You will learn to apply these
principles to the design of graphical user interfaces, information displays,
products and virtual environments.
Origins
This tutorial has been revised from CHI 97.
Features
Audience
Anyone that designs or develops user interfaces which incorporate color including interface designers, human
factors engineering, usability specialists and developers of online information.
Presentation
Lecture, slides, demonstrations.
Instructor
Mary A. Mooney is a Human Factors Engineer, Research Artist and Graphic Designer
with Sun Microsystems. She has designed user interfaces for hardware products,
television and Internet interfaces for companies such as Tandem Computer, Sybase,
TCI, Sun and Time-Warner. In addition to her work in the computer domain, Mooney
is an accomplished photographer and painter. She has taught computer graphics and
spoken at several industry conferences. She is a member of SIGCHI and Color
Marketing Group.
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Session Chair: Terry Winograd, Stanford University
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Session Chair: Andrea Mankoski, Sun Microsystems
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