CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

09:30

Registration
Room: People's Palace Foyer

10:00

Keynote: Alan Newell
Division of Applied Computing, University of Dundee.
http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk
Room: Skeel

11:00

W10 - Designing the Not-Quite-Yet: Ideas and Methods for Engaging the Public in a Digital Future of their Choice
Room: Francis Bancroft Building - FB318

Workshop presented by Ann Light and Patrick Healey. Read the detailed Call for Participation.

Refreshments - sponsored by Apogee: Usability in Asia
Room: The Octagon

11:30

Session 6: Enthralling experiences
Room: Skeel

1. Measuring the Aesthetics of Reading (full paper)
2. Aesthetic and hedonic qualities as antecedents of overall judgements of interactive products (short paper)
3. Involvement in Listening to Music from a Computer: The Effects of Pre-Existing Mood (short paper)
4. Interface Affect and Familiarity, some Implications for Designing the Interaction (short paper)
5. Benchmarking Desirability over Time (short paper)

Session 7: Interactions for me
Room: People's Palace 1

1. The Beam Cursor: A Pen-based Technique for Enhancing Target Acquisition (full paper)
2. Assisting Target Acquisition in Perspective Views (full paper)
3. Sketch Radar: a Novel Technique for Multi-Device Interaction (short paper)
4. Simulated Lifting with Visual Feedback (short paper)

Panel 2: Practising what you preach
Room: People’s Palace 2

Facilitators:
Nico Macdonald, Spy
Angela Sasse, UCL
James Howard, BBC
Kai En Ong, BBC
Robert Zimmer, University of London

How successful is knowledge transfer between research and practice in interaction design and HCI? Is research relevant, understandable and actionable for working designers? We bring together researchers with practitioners from the BBC to discuss the problems and opportunities in these areas. For more information see the Spy site http://www.spy.co.uk/
Events/Panels/HCI2006/

panel details...

13:00

Lunch
Room: The Octagon

14:30

Session 9: Interactions for me
Room: Skeel

1. Does being motivated to avoid procedural errors influence their systemacity? (short paper)
2. Factors affecting event detection in dynamic environments: The case of ATC (short paper)
3. Emotional response to system messages - are they liked? (short paper)
4. Engaging Chronically Depressed Patients: Discourse Analysis and Clinical Information System Design (short paper)
5. WebMGISQL 3D - Iterating the Design Process passing through a Usability Study
6. Guidelines for Designing Usable DVD Menus (short paper)

Session 10: Interactions in the wild
Room: People's Palace 1

1. Output Multimodal Interaction: The Case of Augmented Surgery (full paper)
2. mSpace Mobile: Exploring Support for Mobile Tasks (short paper)
3. Using RFID, bar-code and speech technology to support context-aware maintenance with wearable computers (short paper)
4. Integrating social and cultural variances into international eCommerce interface design (short paper)

W10 - Designing the Not-Quite-Yet: Ideas and Methods for Engaging the Public in a Digital Future of their Choice
Room: People's
Palace 2

Public event as part of the all-day workshop, open to all conference delegates.

Between 14:30 and 16:00 artists and researchers demonstrate methods for stimulating vision and engaging non-specialists in the design of possible digital and networked futures: public art, critical design, schools outreach and more.

16:00

Refreshments - sponsored by Usability that Works, the international training consortium
Room: The Octagon

16:30

Session 11:
Interactions in the wild(1+2), Connecting with others (3), Mind Body Spirit (4)
Room: Skeel

1. Place and the experience of BLISS (full paper)
2. Factors Contributing to Low Usage of Mobile Data Services: User Requirements, Service Discovery and Usability (full paper)
3. Camera phone use in social context (short paper)
4. Older People's Experiences Route planning (short paper)

Session 12: Mind Body Spirit
Room: People's Palace 1

1. Exploring the PieTree for Representing Numerical Hierarchical Data (full paper)
2. Severity of usability and accessibility problems in eCommerce and eGovernment websites (short paper)
3. Applying usability principles to content for diverse audiences (short paper)
4. Tools for Safe Colour Selection (short paper)
5. The role of shame, guilt and embarrassment in online social dilemmas (short paper)

later

Social (7pm-1am)
Expect something different! This year we’ve engaged the services of Planet Angel who for six years have been holding successful underground art and music club events in London to create a Social Event with a difference!

Expect an exceptional event in a beautiful venue with loads of places to sit and chat, UV décor, DJs, live performance, street art, specially commissioned video projections, lots of interactive things to do and a few surprises! All this and of course some excellent food and drink! We suggest you book extra tickets early!

NB: A free cab service will run from the social event to Queen Mary accommodation between 11pm and 1am.