HCI 2006 Tutorials
Tutorials are provisional on numbers attending, and popular tutorials are filling up quickly, so please apply early to reserve your place. If you have applied for a tutorial which is then cancelled, you will be offered the option of taking up a place at an alternative tutorial respectively. You can book a tutorial when registering online.
Costs: Full-day Tutorials are £250, half-day tutorials £150.
T1 - Forms that work: Understanding forms to improve their design (full-day)
Presenter: Caroline Jarrett, Effortmark Ltd.
Room: Francis Bancroft Building - FB321
Date: Monday 11/09/2006 09:30
Description: Learn about the human side of forms: how we interact with and think about them, and how to make them as easy for users as practicable. For more information see www.usabilitythatworks.com/forms.html
T2 - Usability Design - A New Rational Unified Process Discipline (half-day, afternoon)
Presenters: Magnus Lif and Bengt Göransson (Guide Redina, Sweden)
Room: Francis Bancroft Building - FB322
Date: Monday 11/09/2006 13:00
Description: The Usability Design discipline will be explained. The course is aimed at those wanting to work with User-Centered Design (UCD) within a systems development framework such as the RUP.
PLEASE NOTE: Tutorial T2 has been cancelled. If you have registered for this tutorial, conference office will get in touch with you regarding a refund or change of tutorial booking.
T3 - Principles of Interaction Design (full-day Master Class)
Presenters: Shane Morris, Echo Interaction Design, Australia
Room: Francis Bancroft Building - FB323
Date: Monday 11/09/2006 09:30
Description: Great interaction design requires more than just a methodology. Explore the underlying (even unconscious) principles of interaction design that master designers use every day to create excellent user interfaces - fast.
T4 - An Introduction to the ACT-R Cognitive Architecture (full-day Master Class)
Presenters: David Peebles and Robert Ward (Huddersfield University)
Room: Francis Bancroft Building - FB324
Date: Monday 11/09/2006 09:30
Description: This one-day tutorial will introduce Anderson's ACT-R theory of human cognition (http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/), and give directed practice in programming and interpreting ACT-R models to simulate human cognitive activity and human-computer interaction.
PLEASE NOTE: Tutorial T4 has been cancelled. If you have registered for this tutorial, conference office will get in touch with you regarding a refund or change of tutorial booking.
T6 - Old Cards, New Tricks: Applied Techniques in Card Sorting (half-day, morning)
Presenter: William Hudson, Syntagm
Room: Francis Bancroft Building - FB322
Date: Tuesday 12/09/2006 09:30
Description: Experience an innovative approach to card sorting and cluster analysis by working through examples from real web sites. This workshop focuses on the application of card sorting to web navigation using new techniques.
T7 - Interviewing skills (half-day, afternoon)
Presenters: Caroline Jarrett, Effortmark Ltd.
Room: Francis Bancroft Building - FB323
Date: Tuesday 12/09/2006 13:00
Description: Run a couple of usability tests? Come to tune up your interviewing skills and learn tips for dealing with problematic test participants. For more information see www.usabilitythatworks.com/interview-skills.html
T8 - How to Combine Requirements and Interaction Design Through Usage Scenarios (full-day Master Class)
Presenter: Hermann Kaindl, Vienna University of Technology
Room: Francis Bancroft Building - FB324
Date: Tuesday 12/09/2006 09:30
Description: This tutorial presents combined requirements engineering and interaction design, primarily based on usage scenarios. It will be held interactively as a Master Class, including exercises and much discussion.
T9 - Managing iterative projects more effectively: theories, techniques and heuristics (full-day)
Presenters: John Long (University College London) and Steve Cummaford (TWI interactive)
Room: Francis Bancroft Building - FB327
Date: Tuesday 12/09/2006 09:30
Description: Most HCI specialists are involved with iterative project management on a day-to-day basis. This tutorial presents theories, methods and practical techniques to manage iterative projects more effectively, illustrated with examples.