Tuesday - Workshops and Tutorials
Workshops and tutorials run over the first two days of the conference (see Monday'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 6 - 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.
Tutorial 7 - 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
Tutorial 8 - 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.
Tutorial 9 - 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.
Workshop 5 - CCID 2006: The First International Symposium on Culture, Creativity and Interaction Design (full-day)
Presenters: Peter Wright and Ann Light
Room: Octagon
Date: Tuesday 12/09/2006 09:30
Description: CCID2006 is a forum for HCI research at the boundaries of the science, arts and humanities. It will explore how these disciplines work together to enhance culture, creativity and interaction design.
Read the Call for Participation.
Workshop 6 - Engaging with Emotions – The Role of Emotion in HCI (full-day)
Presenters: Christian Peter, Lesley Axelrod, Elizabeth Crane and Russell Beale
Room: Francis Bancroft Building - FB326
Date: Tuesday 12/09/2006 09:30
Description: Discuss where, how and to what extent emotions are involved in HCI, and how to exploit them. The focus will be on affect detection, sensing and affective applications. Read the Call for Participation.
For more information visit the workshop website at http://www.emotion-in-hci.net.
Workshop 7 - Computer Assisted Recording, Pre-Processing and Analysis of User Interaction Data (full-day)
Presenters: Willem-Paul Brinkman, Philip Gray and Karen Renaud
Room: Francis Bancroft Building - FB317
Date: Tuesday 12/09/2006 09:30
Description: Discuss work and explore new issues related to recorded user-system interaction data to inform the design process. Both tool developers and people with an interest in understanding interaction behaviour are invited. Read the Call for Participation.
For more information visit the workshop website at http://disc.brunel.ac.uk/hci2006trackingworkshop/
Workshop 8 - HCI, the Web and the Older Population (full-day)
Presenters: Joy Goodman, Anna Dickinson, Suzette Keith and Gill Whitney
Room: Francis Bancroft Building - FB318
Date: Tuesday 12/09/2006 09:30
Description: This workshop examines how HCI relates to the increasing older population, discussing research and key issues, focusing on the internet but with relevance to a wide range of application areas. Read the Call for Participation. For more information visit the workshop website at http://www-edc.eng.cam.ac.uk/~jag76/hci_workshop06 .
Workshop 9 - Graduate career development workshop for women in Computing Research (full-day)
Presenters: Lynne Hall and Ursula Martin
Room: Francis Bancroft Building - FB321
Date: Tuesday 12/09/2006 09:30
Description: This workshop addresses the issue of under-representation of women in UK computing research and leadership. It provides the opportunity to hear successful women in HCI research discuss career development issues. Read the Call for Participation.
For more information visit the workshop website at http://osiris.sunderland.ac.uk/~cs0lha/BHCI-women-workshop.html