USER INTERFACE STRATEGIES '93
A Live Satellite TV Broadcast
December 9, 1992, Wednesday 11am-5pm EST
University of Maryland Instructional Television
Organized by Ben Shneiderman
Audience: User interface designers, programmers, software
engineers, interface evaluators, managers in the computing and
communications fields, technical writers, human factors
specialists, trainers, marketing personnel.
Overview: Four leaders in the field present their perspectives on
why the user interface is a central focus for expanding
applications of computers in business, education, the home, etc.
They offer their visions and suggest exciting opportunities for
the next decade's developments. Demonstrations, new software
tools, guiding principles, emerging theories, and future scenarios
will be presented.
Enrollment: This symposium will be broadcast live by satellite
from the University of Maryland Instructional Television System
via C Band. In order to view the broadcast, access to a satellite
dish is necessary. Contact your organization's training office to
ask if they can arrange a satellite downlink. If your
organization does not have a satellite dish, contact your local
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set up a downlink.
Cost to view this symposium is $160 per person for 1 - 9 people,
or $1,600 site license for groups of 10 or more. Send check,
money order, or purchase order (made out to the University of
Maryland) to:
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University of Maryland
Instructional Television System (ITV)
2104 Engineering Classroom Building
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information, please call (301) 405-4905 or FAX (301) 314-9639.
This program will also be broadcast on the National Technological
University (NTU) satellite network.
Special Videotape Offer: Your organization may videotape this
symposium at no extra cost. If you cannot watch the broadcast
live or make a videotape, ITV will make a videotape for you at the
cost of $1800. All videotape purchases are restricted for
internal use by your organization only.
Lecture 1: 11:00am - Noon EST
Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland
Information Visualization: Sight for Sore Eyes
The widespread use of graphic user interfaces has altered the
cognitive balance, shifting attention to more visual approaches to
many tasks. Dynamic queries which employ direct manipulation
widgets such as sliders to set value ranges, are enabling users to
find information rapidly and to develop intuitions, recognize
trends, and spot exceptions. Treemaps, a space-filling mosaic
approach to representing hierarchies, give users x-ray vision for
computer directories, stock portfolios, and sales charts. Visual
approaches to enduser programming by demonstration are maturing.
Demonstrations, empirical results, and guidelines for designers
are offered.
Ben Shneiderman is Head of the Human-Computer Interaction
Laboratory, Professor of Computer Science, and Member of the
Systems Research Center all at the University of Maryland, College
Park. He is the author of Designing the User Interface, 2nd
Edition and Software Psychology, and the co-author of the
hyperbook/disk Hypertext Hands-On!. Dr. Shneiderman is editor of
the Ablex Publishers series on Human-Computer Interaction, on the
editorial board of 6 journals, the author of 150 technical papers,
and the creator of the Hyperties hypertext system. His lectures
and consultancies have included Apple, AT&T, IBM, Library of
Congress, NASA, NCR, and NEC.
Lecture 2: 12:30pm - 1:25pm EST
Marilyn Mantei, University of Toronto
Computer Supported Collaborative Work
Computer-supported cooperative work represents the next stage in
our understanding of the computer tool; it supports the intense
communication exchanges and collaboration activities that we carry
out with others. New directions range from providing a dynamic
shared memory for documenting and running face-to-face meetings to
simulating the presence of distant co-workers through miniature
video and audio technology. These directions represent
fundamental changes to work practice (for example, telecommuting),
to consensus forming and team building (for example, group
decision support systems), to work products (for example, shared
design environments), and particularly to user interface design.
Demos and videos illustrate novel interface solutions and reveal
criteria for successful products.
Marilyn Mantei is Associate Professor of Computer Science and of
Library and Information Science at the University of Toronto.
While a faculty member at the University of Michigan, she started
the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, served as Director of
Research and Development for a microcomputer software company and
as Senior Scientist at the EDS Center for Applied Research. At
EDS, she developed and conducted research on the Capture Lab, a
computer-supported meeting room. At Toronto, she heads the
CAVECAT project, a video desktop conferencing research initiative.
Dr. Mantei has been a SIGCHI officer, has chaired the CHI'86
Conference on Human Factors in Computing, and is co-chairing the
CSCW'92 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work.
Lecture 3: 1:35pm - 2:30pm EST
Tom Furness, University of Washington
Virtual Worlds: Why? and When?
In the next few years virtual interfaces will revolutionize the
way that humans think with computers. Rather than requiring
humans to become 'computer-like' to operate and program these
machines, virtual interfaces allow the computer to become 'human-
like', by providing an immersion of the senses into a three-
dimensional visual, acoustic, and tactile medium. The high
bandwidth to the brain produced by these interfaces will extend
human intellect and provide new applications in business,
medicine, education, communication, and entertainment. This
presentation traces the history of virtual interfaces, discusses
current research and upcoming applications, include the
'virtuphone -- a telephone that you wear'.
Thomas A. Furness is a Professor of Industrial Engineering at the
University of Washington in Seattle and founding director of the
Human Interface Technology Laboratory at the Washington Technology
Center. He was Chief of the Visual Display Systems Branch, Human
Engineering Division of the Armstrng Aerospace Medical Research
Laboratory (USAF), Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. Beginning in 1966,
Dr. Furness developed and evaluated visually-coupled systems and
virtual interface concepts to improve the communication of
information and control functions between the pilot and advanced
Super Cockpits. He is co-editor of the new MIT Press journal,
Presence.
Lecture 4: 3:00pm - 3:55pm EST
James Martin, Author/Consultant
Enterprise Visualization and Object-Oriented Modeling
It is becoming increasingly important to redesign corporations and
business processes. We need to represent the activities of
corporations in ways which are meaningful to the businesspeople.
The stream of processes can be thought of in terms of objects and
activities which change those objects. With an object-oriented
model we can visualize the value streams in ways which enable us
to redesign them. We need to explore the best forms of enterprise
visualization.
James Martin has authored almost 80 best-selling books. In
addition to receiving a Pulitzer Prize nomination for 'The Wired
Society,' and penning the 1984 top-selling book on computers, 'An
Information Systems Manifesto,' Dr. Martin's works are
authoritative sources on application development, data base,
teleprocessing, telecommunications, interactive systems, and the
impact of computers on commerce and society. He has an M.A. in
Physics from Oxford, and a D.Sc. (Hon.) from Stanford University
for his work on information engineering. He worked at IBM for 19
years and has founded several companies: James Martin Associates,
KnowlegeWare (leading CASE vendor), and the James Martin Report.
He has conducted studies at the top management level at AT&T, IBM,
Honeywell, Texas Instruments, GTE, DEC, ICL, and Xerox.
Discussion: 4:05pm - 5:00pm EST
Phoned-in and faxed questions will be discussed by the speakers.Web Accessibility