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

Graphic and Visual Design Sessions All-at-Once

Tutorial: 11. Practical GUI Screen Design: Making It Usable

Sunday 09:00 - 17:30.

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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Tutorial: 13. Metaphor Design for User Interfaces

Sunday 09:00 - 17:30.

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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Tutorial: 26. The Art of the Interface: Visual Ideas, Principles and Inspiration for Interface Designers

Monday 09:00 - 17:30.

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

Participants are strongly encouraged to bring printouts of work-in-process for a tutorial project. For example, bring particularly troublesome interactions, unclear visual designs or icons, unclear information designs, confusing graphics. Please limit printouts to the minimum required (2-4).

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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Tutorial: 35. Managing Color in Interactive Systems

Monday 14:00 - 17:30.

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

Wednesday 08:30 - 10:00.

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Panel: Constructing Community in Cyberspace

Wednesday 08:30 - 10:00.

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Late-Breaking Results: The Real and the Virtual: Integrating Architectural and Information Spaces (Suite)

Wednesday 11:00 - 12:30.

Session Chair: Terry Winograd, Stanford University


Panel: Good Web Design: Essential Ingredient!

Wednesday 16:00 - 17:30.

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Demonstrations: 2D & 3D Graphics

Thursday 11:00 - 12:30.

Session Chair: Andrea Mankoski, Sun Microsystems


Panel: Baby Faces, UI Design for Small Displays

Thursday 14:00 - 15:30.

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