Monday - Workshops and Tutorials
Workshops and tutorials run over the first two days of the conference (see Tuesday's programme). The fee for a full-day workshop is only £80, and £250 for a full-day tutorial (£150 for half-day tutorial). Please register early to secure your place.
NB: workshop participants must be accepted by the relevant organisers prior to booking - see the workshop details for instructions.
Tutorial 1 - 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
Tutorial 2 - 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.
Tutorial 3 - 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.
Tutorial 4 - 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.
Workshop 1 - (re)Actor: The First International Conference on Digital Live Art (full-day)
Presenters: Jennifer Sheridan and Alice Bayliss
Room: Octagon
Date: Monday 11/09/2006 09:30
Description: The First International Conference on Digital Live Art fuses live art, computing and HCI with club culture for a lively debate, event and ambient after party which map out this emerging field.
Read the Call for Participation.
For more information visit the workshop website at http://www.digitalliveart.co.uk/
Workshop 2 - Combining Visualisation and Interaction to Facilitate Scientific Exploration and Discovery (full-day)
Presenters: Elena Zudilova-Seinstra and Tony Adriaansen
Room: Francis Bancroft Building - FB326
Date: Monday 11/09/2006 09:30
Description: This workshop offers an interdisciplinary discussion forum for researchers and practitioners interested in the integration of modern interaction and visualisation technologies in order to facilitate scientific exploration and knowledge discovery.
Read the Call for Participation.
For more information visit the workshop website at http://www.science.uva.nl/~elenaz/HCI06/
Workshop 3 - Developing Design Methodologies for Designing for Elderly with Elderly (full-day)
Presenters: Corina Sas, Peter Bagnall and Alina Coman
Room: Francis Bancroft Building - FB317
Date: Monday 11/09/2006 09:30
Description: This workshop offers an interdisciplinary forum of discussions aiming to challenge our preconceptions of older users, address their distinct set of needs and explore innovative methods for designing for elderly with elderly.
Read the Call for Participation.
For more information visit the workshop website at http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/corina/BHCI06Workshop/
Workshop 4 - HCI Educators' Yellow Book Workshop (full-day)
Presenters: Paul Englefield, Janet Read, Russell Beale and William Wong
Room: Francis Bancroft Building - FB318
Date: Monday 11/09/2006 09:30
Description: The purpose of this workshop is to identify "standard", or referent, problems which educators and trainers can use to teach different aspects of HCI analysis, evaluation, design and invention.
Read the Call for Participation.
For more information visit the workshop website at http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/research/idc/HCIEd2006-2/