Information Retrieval List Digest 012 (February 23, 1990) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-012 IRLIST Digest February 23, 1990 Volume VII Number 6 Issue 12 *************************************************************** Continued from Volume VII, Number 6, Issue 11 *************************************************************** I. NOTICES: Meeting announcements / Calls for papers A.6. ACL '90, and more! A.7. COIS '90, April 25-27, 1990 (further information) A.8. ECHT '90 (European Conference on Hypertext), Paris, November 27-30, 1990 B. Publications announcements C. Miscellaneous C.1. Greetings C.2. User Interface Strageties '90 C.3. IRList Digest format ************************************************************ I. NOTICES I.A.6. Fr: walker@flash.bellcore.com (Don Walker) Re: ACL '90, and more! ACL CONFERENCE INFORMATION Association for Computational Linguistics ACL CONFERENCE INFORMATION January 1990 PREPARATIONS FOR ACL-90 WELL UNDER WAY; 145 PAPERS SUBMITTED The 28th Annual Meeting of the ACL will be held 6-9 June 1990 at the University of Pittsburgh. The physical accommodations are particularly attractive and convenient, with talks, exhibits, and registration all in close proximity. Program and registration information will be mailed in late February. The Program Committee is being chaired by Bob Berwick [MIT AI Laboratory, Room 838, 545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA; (+1 617) 253-8918; berwick@wheaties.ai.mit.edu]. Local Arrangements, including exhibits and demonstrations, are being handled by Rich Thomason [Intelligent Systems Program, Cathedral of Learning 1004, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA; (+1 412) 624-5791; thomason@cad.cs.cmu.edu]. Tutorials are being organized by Dan Flickinger [Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories, 1501 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA; (+1 415) 857-8789; flickinger@hp.com]. COLING-90 IN HELSINKI THIS AUGUST; NEW PROGRAM STRUCTURE COLING-90, the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics will take place in Helsinki, Finland, 20-24 August 1990. The conference will be divided into topical papers on crucial issues in computational linguistics and brief reports with software demonstrations. A strong emphasis is placed on controversial proposals and their resolution. Equal time will be given to presenting papers and discussing them. A description of the philosophy of the Program Committee is featured in the forthcoming issue of The FINITE STRING (Volume 15, Number 4) by the Program Chair, Hans Karlgren [KVAL, Skeppsbron 26, S-111 30 Stockholm, SWEDEN; (+46 8) 7896683; coling@ qzcom.bitnet or coling@com.qz.se]. Fred Karlsson is responsible for Local Arrangements [Dept of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki, Hallituskatu 11, SF-00100 Helsinki, FINLAND; (+358 0) 1911; (+358 0) 656591; coling@finuh.bitnet]. Conference management will be handled through Riitta Ojanen [Kaleva Travel Agency Ltd, Congress Service, Box 312, SF-00121 Helsinki, FINLAND; (+358 0) 602711; (+358 0) 629019 fax]. Registration information should be requested directly from Ojanen or Karlsson. Proceedings will be available through the ACL Office after the conference. 5TH EUROPEAN CHAPTER IN EAST GERMANY IN APRIL 1991 The Fifth Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL will be held 9-11 April 1991 in East Berlin. The Program and Local Arrangements Committees will be chaired by Juergen Kunze and Dorothee Reimann [Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR, Zentralinstitut fuer Sprachwissenschaft, Prenzlauer Promenade 149-152, DDR-1100 Berlin, GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC; (+37 2) 47 97 153 or 47 97 168; telex: 114713]. BERKELEY SITE SELECTED FOR ACL-91 The 29th Annual Meeting of the ACL will be held 18-21 June 1991 at the University of California in Berkeley. The Program Committee will be chaired by Doug Appelt [Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International, 333 Ravenswood Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA; (+1 415) 859-6150; appelt@ai.sri.com]. Responsibility for Local Arrangements will be shared by Peter Norvig [Division of Computer Science, University of California, 573 Evans Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; (+1 415) 642-9533; norvig@teak.berkeley.edu] and Bob Wilensky [Division of Computer Science, University of California, 571 Evans Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; (+1 415) 642-7034; wilensky@teak. berkeley.edu]. 3RD APPLIED CONFERENCE SET FOR APRIL 1992 IN ITALY The 3rd Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing of the ACL will be held 1-3 April 1992 in Trento, Italy. Oliviero Stock is Program CoChair and will be responsible for Local Arrangements [IRST: Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, I-38100 Trento, Loc. Pante di Povo, ITALY; (+39 461) 810105; stock%irst@uunet.uu.net]. Lyn Bates will be Program CoChair [BBN Systems & Technologies Corporation, 10 Moulton Street, Cambridge, MA 02238, USA; (+1 617) 873-3634; bates@bbn.com]. ********** I.A.7. Fr: rba@flash.bellcore.com (Robert B. Allen) Re: COIS '90: Conference on Office Information Systems, MIT, April 25-27, 1990 COIS90 - Conference on Office Information Systems April 25-27, 1990 MIT, Kresge Auditorium, Cambridge, Mass. Sponsored by ACM SIGOIS and IEEECS TC-OA: In cooperation with IFIP WG 8.4 General Chair: Bob Allen, Bellcore Program Chair: Fred Lochovsky, U. Toronto PROGRAM COMMITTEE Fred Lochovsky-Chair, U. Toronto, Canada; Stephen Ades, PA Technology, U.K.; Agustin A. Araya, FMC Corporation, USA; Walter Bender, MIT Media Lab, USA; Elisa Bertino, IEI-CNR, Italy; Andrew Clement, York U., Canada; Panos Constantopoulos, U. Crete, Greece; Christsos Faloutsos, U. Maryland, USA; Steve Feiner, Columbia U., USA; Les Gasser, USC, USA; Sidney E. Harris, Claremont, USA ; Mathias Jarke, U. Passau, W. Germany; Robin Jeffries, Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA; Won Kim, MCC, USA; Winfried Lamersdorf, IBM Heidelberg, W. Germany; Larry Lefkowitz, U. Mass., USA; Marilyn Mantei, U. Toronto, Canada; Najah Naffah, Bull S.A., France; Oscar Nierstrasz, U. Geneva, Switzerland; Robert W. Root, Bellcore, USA; Walt Scacchi, USC, USA; Frank Tompa, U. Waterloo, Canada; C.J. van Rijsbergen, U. Glasgow, U.K.; Toyohide Watanabe, Nagoya U., Japan; Carson C. Woo, UBC, Canada; Polle Zellweger, Xerox PARC, USA. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Bob Allen-General Chair, Bellcore, USA; Skip Ellis, MCC, USA; Carl Hewitt, MIT-AI Lab, USA; Selma Kaufman, Treasurer, Bellcore, USA; Fred Lochovsky, U. Toronto, Canada; Vince Lum, NPS, USA; Tom Malone, MIT-Sloan, USA; Margi Olson, NYU, USA; Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; Dennis Tsichritzis, U.Geneva, Switzerland; Alex Verrijn-Stuart, U. Leiden, The Netherlands. For more information on COIS90, or registration forms, contact: Selma Kaufman, Bellcore, 2M-356, 445 South St., Morristown, NJ 07960-1910; (201) 829-4280, smk@flash.bellcore.com ADVANCE SCHEDULE COIS90 - CONFERENCE ON OFFICE INFORMATION SYSTEMS Kresge Auditorium, MIT *Tuesday, April 24, 1990 -Tutorials, 9-12; 1:30-4:30, Hyatt Cambridge -6:00-8:00pm Registration/Reception, Hyatt Cambridge supported by Lotus Development Corp. *Wednesday, April 25, 1990 -9:00-10:15: Introduction and Welcome: Chair: R.B. Allen. Keynote Address: Mitchell Kapor, ON Technologies -10:45-12:00 Session: Distributed OISs, Chair: C. Hewitt, MIT AI Laboratory Structure and Action in Distributed Organizations. P. de Jong, IBM Cambridge. A Logically Distributed Approach for Structuring Office Systems. P.K. Chrysanthis, D. Stemple, and K. Ramamritham, U. Massachusetts A Computational Model for Organizations of Cooperating Intelligent Agents. A.H. Bond, California Institute of Technology -12:00-1:30: Lunch -1:30-2:00 Invited Speaker: Project Athena, E. Murman, MIT -2:00-3:15 Session: Filtering, Querying, and Navigating Chair: J. Walker, Digital Equipment Answer Garden: A Tool for Growing Organizational Memory. M.S. Ackerman and T.W. Malone, MIT Using Latent Semantic Indexing for Information Filtering. P.W. Foltz, Bell Communications Research HyperMail: Treating Electronic Mail as Literature. R. Belew and J. Rentzepis, UCSD -3:45-5:15 Panel: VideoWorkspaces, Chair: R. Root, Bell Communications Research -5:30-7:00 Open House: Center for Coordination Science, Sloan School, MIT *Thursday April 26, 1990 -9:00-10:15 Session: Organizational Implications Chair: A. Clement, U. Toronto Computerization and the Quality of Working Life: The Role of Control. R.E. Kraut and S. Dumais, Bell Communications Research The Work Group Manager's Role in Developing Computing Infrastructure. T. Jewett and R. Kling, U. California - Irvine Inter-Organization Computer Networks: Indications of Shifts in Interdependence. P. Hart and D. Estrin, U. Southern California -10:45-12:00 Session: Coordination Technology, Chair: L. Lefkowitz, U. Mass. SACT: A Tool for Automating Semi-Structured Organizational Communication. C.C. Woo, U. British Columbia, Canada A Conversation Model for Resolving Conflicts among Distributed Office Activities. F. v. Martial, GMD, W. Germany Support of Cooperative Work by Electronic Circulation Folders. B. Karbe, N. Ramsperger, Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH, W. Germany, and P. Weiss, IABG mbH, W. Germany -12:00-2:00 Session: Lunch/Posters An Approach to Integrated Office Document Processing and Management. N.M. N.M. Mattos, B. Mitschang, U. Kaiserslautern, W. Germany, and A. Dengel, R. Bleisinger, DFKI, W. Germany An Interface for the Acquisition and Display of Office Procedures. D.E. Mahling and W.B. Croft, U. Massachusetts A Set-to-Set Linking Strategy for Hypertext Systems. Y. Hara and Y Kasahara, NEC Corp., Japan Coordinating Distributed Actions via Agent Voting. A.B. Urken, Stevens Institute of Technology Design and Implementation of a Shared Workspace by Integrating Individual Workspaces. M. Ohkubo and H. Ishii, NTT, Japan Implications of Guaranteed, Reliable, Secure Broadcast Networks for Office Information Systems. L.C.N. Tseung and K. Yu, Multipac Inc. and K. Yu, MIT LAN Based Real Time Audio-Data Systems. L.F.G. Soares, T.L.P. Bastos, N.R. Ribeiro R.C.S. Cordeiro, Pontificia U. Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil and S.L. Martins, IBM Brasil PENDS: An Approach to Modeling and Retrieving 'Pending' Information. R. Subramanian, Bell Communications Research Shared Hardware: A Novel Technology for Computer Support of Face-to-Face Meetings. D. Halonen, M. Horton, R. Kass, Center for Machine Intelligence, and P. Scott, U. Essex, England Xsketch: A Multi-user Sketching Tool for X11. J. Lee, U. Toronto, Canada -2:00-2:30 Invited Speaker: Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, I. Greif, Lotus Development Corp. -2:30-3:20 Session: Communication Tools, Chair: F.W. Tompa, U. Waterloo Toward a Definition of Voice Documents. M.J. Muller and J.E. Daniel, Bell Communications Research Commune: A Shared Drawing Surface. S.A. Bly and S.L. Minneman, Xerox PARC -3:45-5:15 Panel: Evaluating Computer-Based Tools in Organizations Chair: W.B. Croft, U. Massachusetts N. Belkin, Rutgers U., T. Bikson, Rand Corp., T. Malone, MIT, G. Marchionini, U. Maryland -7:00-10:00pm: Banquet, Computer Museum, Boston *Friday April 27, 1990 -9:00-10:15 Session: Organizational Data Models Chair: W. Lamersdorf, IBM Heidelberg A Micro-Organizational Model for Supporting Knowledge Migration. F.H. Lochovsky, U. Toronto, Canada and C.C. Woo, U. British Columbia, Canada Objects with Roles. B. Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy An Object-Oriented Data Model for Distributed Office Applications. E. Bertino, CNR, Italy, M. Negri, G. Pelagatti, U. di Brescia, Italy and L. Sbattella, Politecnico di Milano, Italy -10:45-12:00 Session: Computer Mediated Work Environments Chair: M. Mantei, U. Toronto Sharing Views and Interactions with Single-user Applications. S. Greenberg, Alberta Research Council, Canada A Comparison of Application Sharing Mechanisms in Real-Time Desktop Conferencing Systems. S.R. Ahuja, J.R. Ensor, and S.E. Lucco, AT&T Replicated Architectures for Shared Window Systems: A Critique. J.C. Lauwers, T.A. Joseph, K.A. Lantz, and A.L. Romanow, Olivetti Research California -12:00-1:30: Lunch/SIGOIS Business Meeting -1:30-2:00 Invited Speaker: Recent Research at the Media Lab, W. Bender, MIT Media Lab -2:00-3:15 Session: Information Access, Chair: C. Stanfill, Thinking Machines Office Documents on a Database Kernel - Filing, Retrieval, and Archiving. P. Zabback, H.-B. Paul, Mannesmann Kienzle GmbH, W. Germany, and U. Deppisch, ETH Zurich, Switzerland SaTellite: A Visualization and Navigation Tool for Hypermedia. X. Pintado and D.C. Tsichritzis, U. de Geneve, Switzerland A Knowledge-Based Approach to the Design of Document-Based Retrieval Systems. H. Chen, U. Arizona, and V. Dhar, NYU TUTORIALS Tuesday, April 24, 1990, Hyatt Regency, Cambridge 9am-12noon BASIC PRINCIPLES AND GUIDELINES IN USER INTERFACE DESIGN: A PRACTICAL COURSE FOR SOFTWARE DESIGNERS AND DEVELOPERS Dr. Deborah J. Mayhew, Deborah J. Mayhew & Associates INTRODUCTION TO HYPERTEXT AND HYPERMEDIA Dr. Jakob Nielsen, Technical University of Denmark 1:30-4:30pm PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING Dr. Clarence A. Ellis, MCC and University of Texas, Austin COMPUTER-SUPPORTED MEETING ENVIRONMENTS Dr. Marilyn M. Mantei, Dept. of Computer Science, U. Toronto, Canada Please contact hotel directly for reservations. COIS90 CONFERENCE HOTEL - Registration Form - mail to: HYATT REGENCY, 575 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, Mass. 02139 phone: (617) 492-1234 ARRIVAL DATE_____________________DEPARTURE DATE_____________ NAME________________________________________________________ ADDRESS_____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ SHARING WITH________________________________________________ Conference rate for COIS90 participants (Apr. 24-26) honored until March 25. Rate can be extended 3 days prior and/or following the conference. ____single $125 ____double $135 Reservations held only until 6 p.m. without deposit or accepted credit card. Credit Card and Number______________________________________ Expiration Date_____________________________________________ COIS90 REGISTRATION FORM Name______________________________________________________ Address___________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ Affiliation_______________________________________________ Phone_____________________________________________________ Electronic Address________________________________________ Advance Registration: members __ACM __IEEECS __IFIP 8.4 $225 __non-members $280 After April 9: members __ACM __IEEECS __IFIP 8.4 $270 __non-members $340 __Students $70 __One day $120 __Dinner Buffet at Boston Computer Museum $30 TUTORIALS, April 24 (Lunch included if signing up for both am and pm) 9:00am __D. Mayhew __J. Nielsen 1:30pm __C. Ellis __M. Mantei Adv. Registration: members __ACM __IEEECS __IFIP 8.4 $100 (per course) __non-members $125 After April 9: members __ACM __IEEECS __IFIP 8.4 $125 __non-members $150 Total________________________________________________________ $_____ Please make check payable to COIS90, and send to: Selma Kaufman, 2M-356, Bellcore, 445 South St., Morristown, NJ 07960-1910 Remittance in U.S. dollars please. For more information on the 1990 Conference on Office Information Systems contact: Selma Kaufman, Bellcore, 2M-356, 445 South St., Morristown, NJ 07960-1910 (201)829-4280, smk@flash.bellcore.com ____________________________________________________________ SHARING WITH________________________________________________ Conference rate for COIS90 participants (Apr. 24-26) honored until March 25. Rate can be extended 3 days prior and/or following the conference. ____single $125 ____double $135 Reservations held only until 6 p.m. without deposit or accepted credit card. Credit Card and Number______________________________________ Expiration Date_____________________________________________ COIS90 REGISTRATION FORM Name______________________________________________________ Address___________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ Affiliation_______________________________________________ Phone_____________________________________________________ Electronic Address________________________________________ Advance Registration: members __ACM __IEEECS __IFIP 8.4 $225 __non-members $280 After April 9: members __ACM __IEEECS __IFIP 8.4 $270 __non-members $340 __Students $70 __One day $120 __Dinner Buffet at Boston Computer Museum $30 TUTORIALS, April 24 (Lunch included if signing up for both am and pm) 9:00am __D. Mayhew __J. Nielsen 1:30pm __C. Ellis __M. Mantei Adv. Registration: members __ACM __IEEECS __IFIP 8.4 $100 (per course) __non-members $125 After April 9: members __ACM __IEEECS __IFIP 8.4 $125 __non-members $150 Total________________________________________________________ $_____ Please make check payable to COIS90, and send to: Selma Kaufman, 2M-356, Bellcore, 445 South St., Morristown, NJ 07960-1910 Remittance in U.S. dollars please. For more information on the 1990 Conference on Office Information Systems contact: Selma Kaufman, Bellcore, 2M-356, 445 South St., Morristown, NJ 07960-1910 (201)829-4280, smk@flash.bellcore.com ********** I.A.8. Fr: Jakob Nielsen Re: ECHT '90 (European Conference on Hypertext) Paris, November 27-30, 1990 SCOPE The subject of hypertext and hypermedia has been witnessing a dramatic rise in interest over the last three years both from the academic as well as from the industrial communities. The purpose of this conference is to set up a wide ranging scientific European event where researchers, developers, and users can meet around the theme of hypertext and hypermedia. ECHT '90 will establish a series of European conferences organized as a complement to and alternating with the biannually US-based and ACM-sponsored Hypertext conferences of recent years. The conference will include prominent guest speakers, presentations of refereed papers, panel sessions, poster and video presentations as well as demonstrations of experimental research systems and commercial products. One day of the conference will feature tutorials of introductory and advanced course level. There will also be opportunities for meetings of special interest groups. By its very nature, hypertext is at the intersection of many fields, esp. of computer science, cognitive science and different application domains. This conference will therefore be of interest to a broad spectrum of professionals ranging from pure theoreticians of hypergraphs and graph grammars via system developers for electronic publishing to endusers of hypertext applications such as medical information systems and computer aided design. Conference Chair: Antoine RIZK, INRIA (FRANCE) e-mail: rizk @ minos.inria.atlas.fr phone ++3 - 1 - 39 63 5238 Fax: ++3 - 1 - 39 63 5228 Program Chair: Norbert STREITZ, GMD-IPSI (F.R. GERMANY) e-mail: streitz @ darmstadt.gmd.dbp.de phone: ++49 - 6151 - 875 919 Fax: ++49 - 6151 - 875 818 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: (to be extended) Rob AKSCYN Knowledge Systems (USA) Jacques ANDRE INRIA (FRANCE) Flavio ARGENTESI JRC-Ispra (CEC) Pat BAIRD University of Strathclyde (UK) Peter BROWN University of Kent (UK) Antonio CONVERTI Olivetti (ITALY) Peter GLOOR GfAI (SWITZERLAND) Frank HALASZ Xerox PARC (USA) Rainer KUHLEN University of Constance (F.R. GERMANY) Dario LUCARELLO University of Milano (ITALY) Ray McALEESE University of Aberdeen (UK) Lambert MEERTENS CWI (The NETHERLANDS) Naja NAFFAH Bull (FRANCE) Jakob NIELSEN Technical University of Denmark(DENMARK) Paolo PAOLINI Politecnico di Milano (ITALY) Vincent QUINT INRIA/Imag (FRANCE) Randy TRIGG Aarhus University (DENMARK) TOPICS (not exhaustive) THEORY - Foundations of hypertext - Models of hypertext - Abstraction mechanisms - Versioning mechanisms - Models of browsing, intelligent search and query mechanisms - Hypermedia synchronisation and storage models - Hypertext interchange formats - Hypertext structures and human memory - Hypertext and knowledge representation - Models of reading and writing SYSTEMS - Hypertext implementations - DBMS support for hypertext systems - Hypertext abstract machines - Operating systems support - Distributed systems - Authoring systems - Reader-based systems - Hypertext and knowledge-based systems - User-interfaces - Browsing and navigation support - Information retrieval - Query and search - Script languages - Hypertext maintenance - Hypertext ergonomics - Transformation of linear documents into hypertext - Multimedia support ISSUES - Hypertext methodologies - Supporting collaborative work - Cognitive aspects - Social issues - Legal issues - Standardization issues HYPERTEXT APPLICATIONS TO COMPUTER SCIENCE - Computer aided software engineering - Dynamic software documentation - On-line help and tutorials - Interactive programming environment HYPERTEXT APPLICATIONS TO OTHER FIELDS - Electronic publishing - Technical documentation - Computer aided design - Office information systems - Medical information systems - Decision support systems - Hypermedia for learning * * There is a special workshop on this topic: Hypertext 3 , University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, April 1991 INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSIONS We welcome original papers, proposals for panels and demonstrations. Full papers (not exceeding 4000 words) should be submitted in 5 copies. A separate cover page must contain title of paper, name(s), affiliation and complete mailing address (incl. phone, Telefax, e-mail) of the author(s) together with an abstract (about 200 words) and three keywords. The name of the first author mentioned will be used for all correspondence unless otherwise stated. Papers will be published in a bound proceedings volume that will be available at the conference. Proposals for panels should contain topic of the panel, names and affiliations of proposer and contributors including a brief characterization of their background and experience relevant to the panel and a description of the content of the panel (not exceeding 1000 words). EXHIBITION Proposals for poster presentations, video or system's demonstrations should be submitted in the form of an extended abstract describing the software or industrial products to be exhibited. DEADLINES April 2, 1990: Submissions of papers/panels/poster/video, etc. received by Conference Secretariat June 15, 1990: Notification of acceptance September 7, 1990: Final copy of paper received by Conference Secretariat Conference Secretariat: SCOIR 2ter, rue de Chantilly F - 75009 Paris France phone: ++33 - 1 - 428 51790 Fax: ++3 - 1 - 428 05951 Jakob Nielsen, Technical University of Denmark Department of Computer Science, DK-2800 Lyngby Copenhagen, DENMARK Tel: +45-31-38 23 20 or +45-42-88 15 66. Fax: +45-42-88 45 30 Email: datJN@NEUVM1.bitnet OR jn@iddth.dk OR nielsen.chi@xerox.com ********** I.C.1. Fr: "Barbara Kwasnik" Re: Welcome Hi there. Welcome back. Eagerly (!) awaiting segments to follow. Love and kisses. B ********** I.C.2. Fr: Ben Shneiderman Re: User Interface Strategies '90 User Interface Strategies '90 A one-day national satellite TV course December 7, 1989 Ben Shneiderman, Organizer, University of Maryland Aaron Marcus, Aaron Marcus and Associates John M. Carroll, IBM S. Joy Mountford, Apple Computer, Inc. This course is produced by the University of Maryland Instructional Television (ITV) System and broadcast nationwide on the AMCEE/NTU (National Technological University) Satellite Network. For information on attending at an AMCEE site in your area or at an ITV site in the Washington, DC area, call the University of Maryland ITV office at (301) 454-8955 or (800) 344-6712 or by FAX (301) 454-8841. You may consider arranging a private showing for your organization, university, or company. Audience: User interface designers, programmers, software engineers, software evaluators, managers in the computing and communications fields, human factors specialists, documenters, trainers, marketing personnel. Overview: These four leaders of the field offer their perspectives on why the user interface is a central focus for expanding the application of computers. They offer their visions and suggest exciting opportunities for the next decade's developments. Demonstrations, new software tools, guiding principles, emerging theories, empirical results, and future scenarios will be presented. Lecture 1: 11:00am - Noon (Eastern Time) Ben Shneiderman: Breakthroughs in User Interface Design Ben Shneiderman introduces the entire program, reviews current directions, and offers a vision of the future of user interfaces. He covers the lively battle over multiple window graphic user interfaces, emergence of user interface tools, rapid dissemination of hypertext/hypermedia, international competition on home controls and electronic consumer devices (such as digital photography), and movement towards collaborative meetings and classrooms. While foundational empirical research and theorizing is occurring at many laboratories, commercial developers are pushing ahead with exciting products and services. Examples are demonstrated and new directions proposed. Shneiderman proposes a suitable balance between controlled experimental research to test hypotheses and more practical usability studies to guide designers. Ben Shneiderman is Head of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, Professor of Computer Science, and Member of the Institute Advanced Computer Studies all at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the co-author, with Greg Kearsley, of the recently published hyperbook/disk Hypertext Hands-On!, and author of Designing the User Interface and Software Psychology. Dr. Shneiderman is editor of the Ablex Publishers series on Human-Computer Interaction, author of 120 technical papers, and creator of the Hyperties hypertext system. He is an international lecturer and consultant for many organizations including Apple, AT&T, IBM, Library of Congress, and NASA. Lecture 2: 12:30 - 1:25pm Aaron Marcus: Graphic Design and the Ten Commandments of Color Aaron Marcus presents essential principles of screen design and the use of color. He argues that all computer graphics systems communicate visually and that the primary goal is not data processing, but visual communication. He believes that user interface design will become a key feature of product design and will be influenced by style in the consumer market. Marcus offers case study design examples to illustrate principles of graphics and color design. He gives specific guidelines in his Ten Commandments of Color and deals with tradeoffs such as simplicity vs. complexity, practicality vs. beauty, function vs. form, and enlightenment vs. delight. Aaron Marcus received a BA in physics from Princeton University and a BFA and MFA from Yale University Art School. He is an authority on the design of computer graphics for charts, forms, documents, icons, and screens. He has presented tutorials at SIGGRAPH, NCGA, and SIGCHI conferences and teaches seminars world-wide. He and his staff have designed and critiqued user interfaces for Apple, DEC, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Kodak, 3M, Motorola, Pacific Bell, Ricoh, US Dept. of Defense (DARPA), and many other organizations. He has recently co-authored, with Ron Baecker, Human Factors and Typography for More Readable Programs. Lecture 3: 1:35 - 2:30pm John M. Carroll: The Nurnberg Funnel: Minimalist Instruction for Computer Skill The Minimalist instructional model was developed to address the "paradox of sensemaking", and the inventory of learner problems that were observed when computer users worked with systematic materials. Three design projects, Guided Exploration, Minimal Manual, and Training Wheels, illustrate the Minimalist model of instructional design for computer artifacts. There is no Nurnberg Funnel for instructional designers; no way to just pour information into the learner's mind. Carroll reviews how the failures of the systematic approach led to the development of the Minimalist model, and how it has been applied in several practical computer systems projects. He clarifies why systematic and analytic design models so often fail in user interface design. By contrast, this work is grounded in an empirical model of the situation of use. The Minimalist design prescriptions succeeded because they were embodied and implemented in design exemplars which were iteratively refined. Dr. John M. Carroll is Manager of User Interface Theory and Design at the IBM Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. His recent books are What's In A Name: An essay in the psychology of reference, Interfacing Thought: Cognitive aspects of human-computer interaction, and The Nurnberg Funnel: Designing minimalist instruction for practical computer skill. He holds BAs in mathematics and information science from Lehigh University and a PhD in experimental psychology from Columbia University. He is on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, Behaviour and Information Technology, and the International Journal of Human Computer Interaction and is a member of the Cognitive Science Society, ACM SIGCHI, IEEE Computer Society, and the Psychonomics Society. Lecture 4: 3:00 - 3:55pm S. Joy Mountford: Navigation of Multi-Media Data Starting with the question "What will people want to do with computers?", S. Joy Mountford describes the sources of information and data that are about to overwhelm the computer user. She describes some multi-media visual navigation tools that help filter, index, search, and organize large knowledge spaces. Joy demonstrates several multi-media interface metaphors that have been developed from user-driven interface principles. The systems she demonstrates illustrate the important role of users in the design process: helping to define critical tasks, providing feedback on the interface elements, and participating in user studies before more effective interface design iterations can take place. Joy offers an exciting vision of what comes next in the world of personal computing. The future may hold the promise of surrogate travel, info-tainment, wearable computers, artificial realities, and personalized playstations. S. Joy Mountford is the manager of the Human Interface Group at Apple Computer, Inc. Previously she worked for MCC in Austin, TX and for Honeywell, Inc. in Minnesota Her past research focussed on the applications of advanced technology to crew station design: speech recognition and generation, stereographic displays, six degree-of-freedom hand controllers, and intelligent systems. Her group at Apple is examining ways of extending the user interface by providing better assistance, multi-media access and expanded metaphors. Her group has been involved with such products as the new Macintosh Finder developments, color uses, and information filters. Joy gives presentations world-wide on issues facing the future of interface design. Joy's graduate work was at the University of Illinois in Engineering Psychology and her undergraduate work was as University College, London. Discussion: 4:05 - 5:00pm *************************************************************** Continued in Volume VII, Number 8, Issue 13 *************************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. 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