• Interface Evaluation: Overview
  • Date: 17 August, 2003 , Sunday
  • Time: 8:30 am to 12:30 pm
  • Instructor: Juliana Pereira Salles (Consultora Independente)

• Interface Modeling: Overview
  • Date: 17 August, 2003 , Sunday
  • Time: 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm
  • Instructor: Milene Selbach Silveira (PUC-RS)

Goal:

A system´s interface ia essential in determining its success, especially when the software will be used by users with no experience in computer science. Nowadays there are many tools that aim at supporting the interface development. However, none of them offer the designer any indicators about the quality of the interface being created. The goal of these tutorials is to introduce participants to the main concepts, theoretical foundation and methods in the field of HCI that support the quality in interface projects (modeling or evaluation).

Audience:

The tutorials will be useful to all of those who currently work, or would like to work, in interactive systems projects (modeling, implementation and/or evaluation). It is aimed as an introductory course to participants of different profiles:

• Profissionals from computing-related fields : an overview of concepts relevant to the users´ experience and the methods that take them into consideration and that can be included in software development cycle.
• Undergraduate and graduate students who have not had the opportunity to take a course in Human-Computer Interaction: an introduction to the field of HCI and its relevance in software development.
• Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students from other disciplines: opportunity to have an overall view of the focus given by the computer-related areas to the interaction between people and systems when designing interactive systems, as well as to better understand how this focus adds to the focus of their own discipline.

Language:

The tutorials will be taught in Portuguese, but a Spanish version of the course could be offered if there are a great number of registrations from native Spanish speakers. Both instructors have Portuguese as their first language and speak well Spanish.

Course Overview:

• Interface Evaluation: Overview
  1. Basic concepts and use qualities
  2. Classification of Evaluation Methods
  3. Inspection Methods
  4. Evaluation with Users

• Interface Modeling: Overview
  1. Basic Concepts
  2. Theoretical Foundation
  3. User Analysis and Modeling
  4. Task Analysis and Modeling
  5. Interaction Modeling
  6. Help Systems Modeling