Satellite Video Conference: User Interface Strategies '96

You and members of your organization are invited to participate in a live satellite downlink titled: User Interface Strategies '96: Quality Usability Engineering Wednesday, December 13, 1995 11am - 5pm Eastern (US time zone) COURSE DESCRIPTION: Three 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. Please see additional details about this course on the World Wide Web at http://www.glue.umd.edu/itv/. BENEFITS: After completing this course, you will: - Understand how new user interface technologies and scientific breakthroughs will improve your work - Learn design techniques for appealing and successful web sites vs. one that ends up on the list of the 10 worst - Learn how to improve interface quality while decreasing the cost and time of software development - Learn about methodologies and tools to develop systems with effective user interfaces INTENDED AUDIENCE: User interface designers, programmers, software engineers, interface evaluators, managers in the computing and communications fields, technical writers, human factors specialists, trainers, marketing personnel. SCHEDULE: One live, 6-hour broadcast. All times in Eastern US time zone. 11:00 - 12:00 Lecture 1: User Interface Update Presented by Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland - Evaluate user interface design, internet web sites and the National Information Infrastructure - Discuss low cost webtop computers, competing windowing system (Windows 95, OS/2 Warp, Macintosh), direct manipulation vs. agentry, speech recognition, and novel pointing devices - Demonstrate visualization methods such as starfields, dynamic queries and lifelines for personal histories 12:00 - 12:30 30 minute break 12:30 - 1:25 Lecture 2: Designing and Evaluating Effective Web Sites Presented by Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland - Discuss basic principles of interface design as applied to websites such as impact of screen size, transmission time, cognitive load, and visual design - Demonstrate the difference between an appealing successful site and one that winds up on the list of ten worst - Learn page layout, use of graphics, structural design, navigation methods and landmarks 1:25 - 1:35 10 minute break 1:35 - 2:30 Lecture 3 Designing Software for Usability: The Cognetics Design Methodology Presented by Charles B. Kreitzberg, President Cognetics Corp. - Discuss early stages of high concept formation, task analysis, key-screen design, and usability testing - Learn how to decrease the cost and time of software development and how to increase return on investment by using six stages of development; 1. Product Concept, 2. Project Planning, 3. Design Concepts, 4. Iterative Design Refinement, 5. Implementation and 6. Rollout 2:30 - 3:00 30 minute break 3:00 - 3:55 Lecture 4: Software Engineering Strategies for User Interface Design Presented by Ed Yourdon, Yourdon, Inc. - Learn about strategies and tools to develop systems with good user interfaces and a well-engineered architecture for today's GUI-based applications and the next-generation of user interfaces - Discuss interface design and how to avoid a software engineering disaster 3:55 - 4:05 10 minute break 4:05 - 5:00 Discussion: Panel discussion with all three speakers - Phoned-in and faxed questions from the viewing PRESENTERS: Ben Shneiderman is Head of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, Professor of Computer Science, and Member of the Institute for Systems Research 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 180 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. Charles B. Kreitzberg, Ph.D. is founder and President of Cognetics Corp., which since 1982 developed and applied usability engineering methods to software products. His award-winning work, which synthesizes, computer technology with human cognition, includes designs of automated teller machines, multimedia CD-ROM's, on-line systems, software re-engineering, hypertext, training, and interactive television. Dr. Kreitzberg has been an international consultant and lecturer for AT&T, Aetna, Ameritech, Citibank, Chase Manhattan Bank, Dow Jones, the Library of Congress, Harvard, Princeton, etc. Cognetics Corporation's Design Methodology was developed to provide interactive designers, software engineers and project managers with a structure to plan and manage product development efforts, ensuring that highly usable software is produced. Edward Yourdon is a software engineering consultant, and is widely known as the developer of the "Yourdon method" of structured systems analysis and design, as well as the co-developer of the Coad/Yourdon method of object-oriented analysis and design. He is also the editor of three software journals - American Programmer, Guerrilla Programmer, and Application. Mr. Yourdon has worked in the computer industry for 30 years, including positions with DEC and General Electric. In 1974, Mr. Yourdon founded his own consulting firm, Yourdon Inc., to provide educational, publishing, and consulting services in state-of-the-art software engineering technology. Ed Yourdon is the author of over 200 technical articles; he has also written 20 computer books, including a novel on computer crime and a book for the general public entitled Nations At Risk. His most recent books are Mainstream Objects (1995), Object-Oriented Systems Development (1994), and Decline and Fall of the American Programmer (1992). Enrollment: This symposium will be broadcast live through out North America via unscrambled C Band and Ku Band satellite from the University of Maryland Instructional Television System (ITV) and on the National Technological University (NTU) Network. Access to satellite dish is necessary. In order to arrange a satellite down link, contact your organization's training office or a college/university near you. Your organization might be a member of the NTU or the ITV network. A list of NTU and ITV sites is included at the end of this post. *If you live in the Baltimore or Washington DC Metropolitan area you can come to College Park and be a member of our studio audience please send an e-mail request for details about how to become part of the studio audience. E-mail itv@eng.umd.edu The down link site license for this course is $1,600; this includes@@N