From: roger@minster.york.ac.uk ()
Subject: HCI 92 CONFERENCE ADVANCE PROGRAMME
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:35:22 GMT
Expires: Fri, 18 Sep 1992 07:00:00 GMT


			HCI '92
		PEOPLE AND COMPUTERS

	TUTORIALS AND ADVANCE PROGRAMME

		University of York, U.K.
		15-18 September 1992

CONFERENCE OVERVIEW

Tuesday 15 September

Tutorials

The tutorials have been invited and selected on the basis of a survey of
delegate wishes and recommendations. They represent a diverse coverage of
some of the major issues currently at the heart of HCI. This year the cost
has been kept low to encourage wide participation.

Doctoral Consortium

This is a full-day closed session. The chairman is Andy Whitefield.

Wednesday 16 - Friday 18 September

Invited speakers

Each day of the conference starts with a presentation from one of the
invited speakers: Jens Rasmussen, Rod Hubbard and Dan Olsen. Each is well
known as an innovative and authoritative figure in his area, and each
has been chosen to highlight a different aspect of current HCI research.

Paper Symposia

One hundred and eight papers were reviewed to choose the twenty seven that
will be presented at the conference. This is the best response the conference
has ever had and reflects the growing importance with which HCI is viewed.
We were particularly pleased that 45% of the submissions were from overseas.
The symposia into which they have been grouped provide a wide choice of topics
at all times.

Poster Sessions

The poster sessions will provide an opportunity for high quality work to be
presented both interactively and via a visually stimulating display. Two
different poster sessions will be run, one on each full day, to enable a
large selection of diverse work to be presented. During the sessions, poster
authors will be on hand to explain their work. The poster displays, however,
will also be accessible to attendees for most of the day.

Laboratory Overviews

University and industrial laboratories with significant HCI programmes will
give overviews of their interests and the methods they employ. Laboratory
overviews afford attendees the opportunity to hear about a wide range of HCI
activities and practices. Presentations will be relatively short to facilitate
strong audience participation in discussion of issues that arise.

Exhibition

The Exhibition will consist of both technical demonstrations of commercial
software and hardware products, and of book displays from publishers in the
field. In previous years the Exhibition has proved a very successful part of
the conference, and this year's will be enhanced and enlarged!

Demonstrations

The Demonstrations offset the Exhibition with presentations of projects and
products, both industrial and academic, that are still under development.
They give an opportunity to get a flavour of up-to-the-minute research work in
the field.

TUTORIAL PROGRAMME (Tuesday 15 September)

There are two sessions, 10:00 to 1:00 and 2:00 to 5:00. With the exception of
tutorials 9 and 10, each tutorial will be repeated in both sessions.

1 Contexts for Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
	John McCarthy
Objectives: To introduce some design and evaluation issues that are current in
CSCW research, particularly those which bear on the social and organisational
context of CSCW.

2 Virtual Reality Technologies
	Robert Stone
Objective: To introduce the audience to the field of virtual reality (VR) by
means of a pictorial slide presentation accompanied by application videos.
In addition the tutorial will equip delegates with a background to the
available technologies (including illustrative system prices), a list of major
international contacts, the key international project areas and, importantly,
specific suggestions for future development needs. These needs will question
the relevance of existing human factors standards and the shortcomings will be
discussed in terms of future research projects.

3 Cooperative Requirements Capture
	Linda Macaulay and Steve Viller
Objectives: To provide an understanding of a user-centred approach to
requirements capture which involves participation of users, designers, product
planners and other `stakeholders.' To illustrate a number of useful techniques
that support cooperation between participants and encourage the development of
an agreed set of requirements.

4 A User-Centred Method for Managing Interface Design
	Professor John Long, Kee Yong Lim, and Nigel Silcock
Objectives: The objectives of the tutorial are: (i) to review how structured
methods may alleviate current problems of human factors input to system
development; (ii) to introduce a recently developed structured human factors
method, and demonstrate its utility in a number of design case studies; and
(iii) to give attendees the opportunity to apply the method in design
specification exercises.

5 Cognitive Factors in Design: Basic Phenomena in Human Memory and
Problem Solving
	Thomas T. Hewett
Objectives: The first objective is to provide an intuitive understanding of
basic phenomena through mini-lectures and "hands-on" demonstrations which
focus attention upon significant aspects of memory and problem solving.
The second objective is to provide a foundation for self-directed study.
Demonstrations are chosen to supplement textbook knowledge with insights
based upon direct experience. The third objective is to relate some of
the phenomena being demonstrated to human-computer interaction.

6 Design Rationale
	Allan Maclean, Victoria Bellotti and Simon Shum
Objectives: To provide an introduction to recent research on the capture,
representation and use of design rationale and relate it to more general
design issues. To introduce the QOC Design Space Analysis approach to design
rationale and to give participants experience in using QOC themselves.

7 Applying Formal Methods to HCI Research
	Alan J. Dix and Gregory D. Abowd
Objectives: To give a broad overview of the many formalisms and notations
available to the interface designer or HCI researcher. These formalisms range
from psychologically founded models to those originating in software
engineering.

8 User Interface Architectures
	Roger Took
Objectives : To examine critically the design space for user interface systems
in terms of the basic structuring principles of abstraction and modularity.
The tutorial will take a top-down approach, tracing the ways in which the
fundamental separation of user and computer can be refined into more and more
differentiated architectures, leading to today's range of sophisticated
interactive components such as window managers, object-oriented
toolkits and UIMSs. The tutorial will provide a reference classification of
user interface architectures, their components, principles and usefulness.

9 (Morning) User Interface Development Tools (UIDTs)
	Martha Szczur
Objective: To help attendees understand how User Interface Development Tools
(UIDTs) can significantly reduce an application's overall development time.
They will learn about the different types of UIDTs, how to use the tools
to improve productivity and how to select a UIDT for their own computing
environment.

10 (Afternoon) Using NASA's TAE Plus: A User Interface Development Tool
	Martha Szczur
Objective: To show how to use TAE (Transportable Applications Environment) Plus
to construct interactively the visual layout of an application screen,
generate the application's skeleton code (in C, C++, or Ada) and manipulate
the GUI during runtime using higher level TAE services. Attendees will learn
who is using TAE Plus and what types of applications are being built.

11 Using Neural Networks and Pattern Recognition in HCI
	Russell Beale and Janet Finlay
Objectives : To introduce HCI researchers and practitioners to the relevance
and scope of applying neural networks and other pattern recognition techniques
to HCI. To introduce the basic principles of neural nets and pattern
recognition, and demonstrate some applications of these methods being used to
assist the human-computer interaction, such as gestural input, speech
interpretation, methods of evaluation and user modelling.

12 Cooperative Evaluation: A Cost-Effective Technique for Refining the
Usability of Prototype Systems
	Peter Wright
Objectives: The tutorial will introduce attendees to Cooperative Evaluation,
a technique to identify usability problems in their own products and
prototypes without the assistance of human factors specialists. The tutorial
is based on a `how to' manual. On completion, attendees will understand how to
use Cooperative Evaluation and how it fits into the design process as a
cost-effective refinement technique.

SOCIAL PROGRAMME

Events will be organised on each of the three evenings, including a visit
to a local brewery, a ten-pin bowling session, and a ghost tour of York.
There is a buffet reception on Wednesday at the Castle Museum, and the main
conference dinner will be held on Thursday amongst the trains at the famous
Railway Museum.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Wednesday 16 September

9:30 - 10:30 Plenary Session

	Invited Speaker: Jens Rasmussen
		Ecology of Work and the Design of Interfaces
	Professor Rasmussen has been conducting research in the areas of
	reliability, risk analysis and human performance in complex systems
	since the 1960's. He was Professor of Cognitive Engineering at Riso
	National Laboratory and the Technical University, Copenhagen until
	earlier this year.

Coffee 10:30 - 11:00 [Exhibition, Demonstrations, Poster Browsing]

Parallel Session 1.

	Panel: HCI - WHERE'S THE PRACTICE?
		which will discuss the problems of HCI practice in industry,
		with special reference to recent experience.

	Chairperson: D. Pullinger, IOP
	Panel Members:
		C. Fowler, British Telecom
		J. Earthy, BP Exploration
		S. Page (Anderson Consulting)
		A. Sutcliffe (City University)

Parallel Session 2.

	Paper Session: Cognitive Models of Programming and Computer Use

	Using an unfamiliar programming language
		J. Scholtz (Portland State University) &
		S. Wiedenbeck (University of Nebraska)

	Modelling the relationship between planning, control, perception and
	execution behaviours in interactive work systems
		W. Smith, B. Hill, J. Long & A. Whitefield, (Ergonomics Unit, UCL)

	The effects of skill development and feedback on action slips
		W. Lee (MRC, Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge)

Parallel Session 3.

	Poster Session A (Poster presenters will be on hand to
		explain their work and answer questions.)

Lunch 12:30 - 14:00 [Exhibition, Demonstrations, Poster Browsing]

Parallel Session 1.

	Paper Session: Practical Evaluation Methods for Improving a Prototype

	What is gained and lost when using evaluation methods other than
	empirical testing
		H. Desurvire, J. Kondziela & M. Atwood (NYNEX, USA)

	EVADIS II: A new method to evaluate user interfaces
		H. Reiterer (University of Vienna)

	From user's problems to design errors: linking evaluation to improving
	design practice
		A. Sutcliffe & M. Springett (City University)

Parallel Session 2.

	Paper Session: Graphics - Design Techniques

	Inferring graphical constraints with Rockit
		S. Karsenty, C. Weikar (DEC, Paris), J. Landay (CMU, USA)

	On the use of LOTOS to describe graphical interaction
		F. Paterno & G. Faconti (CNUCE, Pisa)

	Effective graphics: accessing spatial relations
		C. Conati & J. Slack (IRST, Italy)

Parallel Session 3.

	Laboratory Overviews A
		HCI Group, University of York
			Michael Harrison
		Glasgow Interactive Systems cenTre, University of Glasgow
			Steve Draper
		Research Institute for Theoretical Informatics, Iasi, Romania
			Eduard Antoniu
		Ergonomics Unit, University College London
			John Long

Coffee 15:30 - 16:00 [Exhibition, Demonstrations, Poster Browsing]

Parallel Session 1.

	Panel: CSCW - POWER, CONTROL, CONFLICT
		which will consider some of the social and political
		dimensions of CSCW technologies.

	Chairperson: Prof. N. Gilbert, University of Surrey
	Panel Members:
		D. Wastell (University of Manchester)
		W. Mackay (Xerox EuroParc)
		S. Easterbrook (University of Sussex)

Parallel Session 2.

	Paper Session: Applying models of user and system

	Pace and Interaction
		A. Dix (University of York)

	Systematic menu design
		W. Edmondson (University of Birmingham) &
		R. Spence (Imperial College London)

	User modelling and user interface design
		C. Kelly & L. Colgan (BAe, Sowerby Research Centre)

Parallel Session 3.

	Panel: Interface Construction for the Millenium: Beyond Objects and
		Widget Pushers
		which will discuss the limitations of present sytems for
		interface construction and management, and predict future
		requirements and solutions.

	Chairperson: David England, University of Glasgow
	Panel Members:
		Peter Johnson, Queen Mary and Westfield College
		Steve Draper, GIST
		Dan Olsen, Brigham Young University
		Roger Took, University of York

Buffet Reception at the Castle Museum [Ghost Tour] 19:00 - 24:00


Thursday 17 September

9:30 - 10:30 Plenary Session:

	Invited Speaker: Roderick Hubbard
		Experiencing Molecules: from Pen Plotter to Virtual Reality
	Dr. Hubbard is part of the Protein Structural Group at the University
	of York. He has worked in the area of molecular graphics for the past
	ten years and is the author of the molecular graphics packages HYDRA
	and QUANTA in use in over 800 laboratories worldwide. He is
	particularly interested in using advanced interactive techniques
	to visualise, explore and manipulate molecular structure.

Coffee 10:30 - 11:00 [Exhibition, Demonstrations, Poster Browsing]

Parallel Session 1.

	Paper Session: Hypertext and Multimedia

		Hypertext document retrieval and assembly in legal domains
			P. Thomas & V. Mital (Brunel University)

		Does a video diary help recall?
			M. Eldridge, M. Lamming & M. Flynn, (Rank Xerox EuroPARC)

		An ethnographic approach to analysing navigation and task
		structure in interactive multimedia:
		some design issues for group use
			L. Plowman (University of Sussex)

Parallel Session 2.

	Paper Session: The Design Process

		A structured design of word processing functionality
			C. Huls & A. Dijkstra (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands)

		Design principles for improving service integration for end
		users in broad band communication systems
			I. Denley, A. Whitefield, P. Byerley (Ergonomics Unit, UCL)
			U. Voigt, S. Hermann, J. May (Standard Elektrik Lorenz)

		Customer information control systems / enterprise system
		architecture - usability a measure of success

			S. Hakiel & G. Mann (IBM, Hursley Park)

Parallel Session 3.

	Poster Session B (Poster presenters will be on hand to
		explain their work and answer questions.)

Lunch 12:30 - 14:00 [Exhibition, Demonstrations, Poster Browsing]

Parallel Session 1.

	Panel: HUMAN FACTORS AND FLIGHT DECK AUTOMATION
		which will examine a number of perspectives on the HCI aspects
		of civil flight deck automation.

	Chairpersons:
		A. McClumpha, RAF IAM,
		K. Abbott, NASA Langley Research Centre
	Panel Members:
		C. Billings, NASA AMES
		M. Rudisill, LBJ Space Centre
		Capt. P. Wilson, UK CHIRP Programme
		Capt. P. Bugge, British Airways

Parallel Session 2.

	Paper Session: Cooperative systems

		Sociologists can be surprisingly useful in interactive system design
			I. Sommerville, P. Sawyer, T. Rodden &
			R. Bentley (Lancaster University)

		COOPLAB: Practical experiences with evaluating a multi-user system
			M. Morris, T. Plant & P. Hughes (BNR Europe, Harlow)

		ShareME - Shared multimedia environments: some issues on
		interaction in distributed multimedia information environments
			K. Vaananen & W. Hubner (ZGDV, Darmstadt, Germany)

Parallel Session 3.

	Paper Session: Building adaptive systems

		A taxonomy of adaptive user interfaces
			U. Malinowski, T. Kuhme, H. Dieterich &
			M. Schneider- Hufschmidt (Siemens, Munich)

		The re-use and integration of existing software:
		a central role for the intelligent user interface
			E. Edmonds, B. Murray, J. Ghazikhanian &
			S. Heggie (LUTCHI)

		Analysis of user behaviour as time series
			A. Dix, J. Finlay (University of York) &
			R. Beale (University of Birmingham)

Coffee 15:30 - 16:00 [Exhibition, Demonstrations, Poster Browsing]

Parallel Session 1.

	Paper Session: Graphical user interfaces

		An assessment of font preferences for screen-based text display
			P. Holleran (Apple, Cupertino, USA)

		Using animated demonstrations to teach graphics skills
			P. Waterson & C. O'Malley (Nottingham University)

Parallel Session 2.

	JFIT Initiatives and the HI Club
		State of the Art reports from the HI Club SIGs

		An overview of upcoming JFIT initiatives of relevance to HCI

	Convener: Vic Maller

Parallel Session 3.

	Laboratory Overviews B
		Rank Xerox EuroPARC
			Allan MacLean
		IBM Hursley Park
			Simon Hakiel
		Logica Cambridge
			Rosalind Barden
		LUTCHI Research Centre
			Ernest Edmonds

Conference Dinner at the Great Railway Show 19:00 - 24:00

Friday 18th September

9:30 - 10:30 Plenary Session

	Invited Speaker: Dan Olsen Jr.
		User Interface Tools for an Information Age
	Dr. Olsen is Professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University.
	He is the author of numerous papers on user interface management
	systems (UIMS) as well as a recent book entitled `User Interface
	Management Systems: Models and Algorithms'.

Coffee 10:30 - 11:00

11:00 - 12:30 Plenary Session

	Panel: HCI - THE SEARCH FOR SOLUTIONS
		which will debate current problems in  HCI, what can be done
		to solve them, and how.

	Chairperson: Dan Diaper, University of Liverpool

Lunch 12:30 - 14:00 	Conference ends

BOOKING TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Conference Meals

The conference package includes coffee, lunch and tea
on 16th and 17th, coffee and lunch on 18th, a reception
with buffet dinner on 16th and a banquet on 17th. An
optional evening meal will also be available on 15th if
booked in advance.

Accommodation

Delegates opting for accommodation will be provided with
standard university accommodation (including
breakfast) for the nights of 15th, 16th and 17th. It is also
possible to book accommodation for the night of Monday
the 14th. There are a limited number of double rooms: an
extra charge will be made for accompanying partners.
A list of York hotels can be obtained by writing to:
York Tourist Information Centre, Exhibition Square,
York YO1 2HB.

Special Rates

The early booking rate is open to all applications
postmarked on or before 10 July 1992.
Member rates are open to members of BCS, British HCI
Group, IEE, Ergonomics Society, British Psychological
Society, ACM, GI2.3, STIMDI and EACE. To claim the
discounted rate you must specify the society
membership No. in the Declaration.

Student rates are open to full time students. In order to
claim a discounted rate, you must provide a letter from
your head of department as proof of full-time status.
Speaker rates are open to those presenting papers,
posters, demonstrations, panels and laboratory
overviews, but is limited to one person per submission.

Deadlines

Applications should reach us by 1 September. Early
booking is advised as places are limited.
A full refund will be made on cancellation of any booking
provided it is received by the organisers in writing by 31
July 1992. Thereafter the full amount paid will be
forfeited. Substitutions may be made up to 1 September.

BOOKING FORM (Please complete one form per delegate.)

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Tutorial Registration
								AM	PM
Tick the appropriate boxes:
1 Contexts for Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)       |....|....|
2 Virtual Reality Technologies					|....|....|
3 Cooperative Requirements Capture				|....|....|
4 A User-Centred Method for Managing Interface Design		|....|....|
5 Cognitive Factors in Design: Basic Phenomena in Human		|....|....|
	Memory and Problem Solving
6 Design Rationale						|....|....|
7 Applying Formal Methods to HCI Research			|....|....|
8 User Interface Architectures					|....|....|
9 User Interface Development Tools (UIDTs)			|....|....|
10 Using NASA's TAE Plus: A User Interface Development Tool	|....|....|
11 Using Neural Networks and Pattern Recognition in HCI		|....|....|
12 Cooperative Evaluation: A Cost-Effective Technique for	|....|....|
	Refining the Usability of Prototype Systems

TUTORIALS (register above)
(# = pounds sterling)
*Circle as appropriate

Number of tutorials 1*  2*.
Price per tutorial: Member #50*, Non-member #70*, Student #20*	..........

CONFERENCE PACKAGE WITH SOCIAL PROGRAMME AND MEALS

Booking postmarked on or before 10th July
Without accommodation:
Member #300*, Non-member #350*, Speaker #295*, Student #175*	.........
With accommodation:
Member #360*, Non-member #410*, Speaker #355*, Student #235*	.........

Booking postmarked after 10th July
Without accommodation:
Member #360*, Non-member #410*, Speaker #295*, Student #175*	.........
With accommodation:
Member #420*, Non-member #470*, Speaker #355*, Student #235*	.........

EXTRA ACCOMMODATION (Bed and breakfast)

Delegate Monday 14th September, #24*				.........
Accompanying partner:
14th*, 15th*, 16th*, 17th* (#24 per night)			.........
Castle museum (16th) #20*, Banquet Railway Museum (17th) #25*	.........

OPTIONAL PROGRAMME, TUESDAY 15TH

Lunch (1:00 to 2:00) #6.00* per person				.........
Evening meal  (5:45 to 6:30 pm) #7.00* per person		.........
Bowling Alley #7.50*   Brewery visit #5* (choose one only)	.........
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REFEREE DISCOUNT	 Number of papers  at #10 ....		.........
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Payment should be made by cheque or money order payable to
`The University of York', drawn in pounds sterling on a UK clearing bank
and should accompany this form.

Confirmation of booking, a receipt, and travel details will be sent on
receipt of this application form.

CONFERENCE ADDRESS

All applications and enquiries (including
requests for advance programmes) should be addressed to:

HCI '92 Conference Organiser,
Francoise Vassie,
Centre for Continuing Education,
The King's Manor,
University of York,
York YO1 2EP, U.K.

Email (janet): FV1@uk.ac.york
Tel: 0904-433901
Fax: 0904-433906