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This page gives an overview of the conference topics and timetable plus links to the full advance programme and instructions for authors.
Contributions which advance the theory or practice of any aspect of HCI have been invited for INTERACT 99. The review policy is to support innovation, insight, and integration in the theories, methodologies, tools and technologies which contribute to HCI, and to support the wider dissemination of effective theory and practice both nationally and internationally. Contributions which bridge several domains, or explore the expansion of HCI into new areas of theory or application, are particularly encouraged.
Theoretical Issues: psychology of design; cognition and perception; emotion and interaction; user modelling; models of interaction; discourse and multi-party dialogues; intelligence in user and system; analytic usability measures.
Organisational, Social and Cultural Issues: HCI and organisational psychology; organisational structure and the future of work; cultural dependencies and adaptation; allowing for the full range of user characteristics and capabilities.
Dissemination and Practice: HCI education; case studies; cost benefit analyses; extending HCI methodologies to new domains or environments; raising the profile of HCI nationally and internationally.
Interactive system design: formal methods and notations; task and work analysis; design methodologies; HCI and software engineering; graphic design and interaction design; participatory design; supporting collaboration; design environments and tools; evaluation methods; information design; multimedia and multimodal systems; guidelines & standards.
Interaction tools and techniques: virtual reality, force feedback, speech synthesis and voice input, eye tracking, information visualisation, exploration, agents and multiparty systems; system architecture, adaptation and end-user programming.
Applications: including groupwork and groupware, networked information sharing, consumer products; mobile and wearable systems; embedded systems; art and entertainment.
Extra-ordinary HCI: systems, tools and techniques designed for disabled people. This will be a focused theme of the conference, but submissions in all areas should include consideration of the full range of users and potential users, including those with disabilities and other special needs.
INTERACT 99 runs from 30 August to 3 September - the days are organised as follows:
This page gives a quick overview of the timetable and main bookable events - for full details and booking information you should see the INTERACT 99 Advance Programme (PDF format).
To register for INTERACT '99, or to request further information see the registration page.
The Tutorial programme offers an opportunity to benefit from a concentrated learning experience in a leading-edge area of HCI. Whether you are a practitioner with several years experience, a researcher in any aspect of interactive system theory or design, or a recent graduate just starting in the field, you are sure to find tutorial topics of direct relevance and practical benefit in your work. The presenters are leading exponents in their field, and have wide experience of small group teaching. Each tutorial is accompanied by a comprehensive set of notes and resources for further learning and development. Additional sets of tutorial notes will available for sale during the conference.
It is advisable to book early for the tutorials of your choice, as there is an upper limit on numbers. If your selected tutorial is full you will be offered an alternative, or a refund. It may on the other hand be necessary to withdraw a tutorial in the event of there being insufficient interest. Delegates who have booked for a tutorial that has to be withdrawn will be notified in advance of the conference and offered an alternative or a refund.
Monday 30th August |
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Morning |
Afternoon |
T1 CSCW,
Groupware and Workflow: Experiences, State of Art, and
Future Trends |
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T2 Planning and
implementing user centred design |
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T3 Designing
Multimedia Presentations |
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T4 Video
Techniques for Participatory Design: Observation,
Brainstorming and Prototyping |
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T5 Contextual
Inquiry: Gathering Customer Data for System Development |
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T6 Producing Usable Artefacts
with Java 2.0 |
T7 From Components to JavaBeans |
T8 A Modelling Technique for
Process Redesign |
T9 AT&T Intranet Design
Standards: Challenges and Successes |
Tuesday 31 August |
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Morning |
Afternoon |
T10 Developing
Collaborative Applications on the Web |
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T11 Industry
Standard Usability Tests |
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T12 Human
Centred Processes, their Maturity and their Improvement |
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T13 Techniques
Vidéos pour le design participatif: Observation,
brainstorming et prototypage |
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T14 Cognitive
Factors in Design: Basic Phenomena in Human Memory and
Problem Solving |
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T15 Designing Speech-Driven
User Interfaces |
T16 Computing Outside the Box |
T17 The Play's the Thing:
Engagement in Interaction |
T18 Communication through
Movement: A Design Vocabulary |
Additional enquiries to:
Janet Finlay (University of Huddersfield)
tel: +44 (0) 1484 472913 fax: +44 (0) 1484 421106
email: j.e.finlay@hud.ac.uk
Workshops provide 1or 2 day forums for participants to exchange experience and explore research issues on topics of special interest to the HCI community. Workshops should have specific objectives, address stimulating topics and aim to report their activity. Workshops will normally have about 20 participants and meet within the two day period prior to the conference.
Monday 30th August |
Tuesday 31st August |
W5 Making
User-Centred Design Usable |
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W3 Usability
Pattern Language: creating a community |
W2 Representational support for
user-developer communication in systems development |
W7 HCI
- Theory or Practice in Education |
W8 Making designers aware of
existing guidelines for accessibility |
W1 Is Cognitive Engineering the
way forward for HCI? |
W4 Human
Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices |
W9 Organisational
aspects of human error and systems failure |
W6 CUI, GUI or Web: Methodology
for Design |
Additional enquiries to:
Alistair Sutcliffe (City University, London)
tel: +44 (0)171 477 8411 fax: +44 (0) 171 477 8859
email: a.g.sutcliffe@city.ac.uk
Keynotes and papers
Wednesday (Industry Day) Sessions
Keynote Karen Holtzblatt Customer-Centered Design as Discipline |
Dr. Karen Holtzblatt has led teams in
using customer-centered techniques to design software,
hardware, and product strategies since 1987. She is the
originator of Contextual Inquiry, an industry standard
for gathering field data to understand how technology
impacts the way people work. She is co-founder of
InContext Enterprises, a consulting business helping the
high-tech industry design products and market strategies
using Contextual Design, their customer-centered
requirements gathering and front-end design process. Through InContext and her previous work as an engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation, she has pioneered the introduction of customer-centered design processes into engineering and information technology organizations, marketing and usability groups throughout the world. Contextual Design techniques have been taught for many years at the ACM CHI and Software Development conferences, and as part of the design curriculum at major universities throughout Europe and the United States. Karen has more than 20 years of teaching experience, professionally and in university settings and holds a doctorate in applied psychology from the University of Toronto. |
Keynote Roy Kalawski Next generation Virtual Reality - A challenging HCI research agenda for beyond the year 2000 |
Professor Roy Kalawski spent 18 years working for British Aerospace ultimately becoming responsible for cockpit research and development across the Military Aircraft Division. Since 1978, he has undertaken research into virtual interfaces and has led several international collaborative human factors based projects involving virtual interfaces. In 1992 he was appointed Visiting Professor of Virtual Environments in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Hull. He established a range of demonstrator programmes involving virtual interfaces for which in 1993 he received a Medal of Recognition from the Royal Aeronautical Society. In 1995 Professor Kalawski took up a newly created Chair in Human Computer Integration at Loughborough University and established the Advanced VR Research Centre (AVRRC). This led to the establishment of the first Reality Centre at a UK university. The Centre was formally opened in 1996 by HRH Duke of Edinburgh. A wide range of human factors based research projects have been undertaken since the Centre was established. The close involvement of industry throughout has ensured a high degree of relevance as well as the provision of well-equipped laboratory facilities. Professor Kalawski is a steering group member of the Reality Centre Users. He has recently been voted as the Chairman of the DTI VR Forum which represents academic and industrial users of VR. |
Paper sessions:
Plus two panel sessions, laboratory & organisation overviews, posters, videos and conference exhibition.
Thursday Sessions
Keynote Brian Gaines HCI in the next millennium: supporting the world mind |
Dr. Brian R Gaines is Killam Memorial Research Professor, Dean of Graduate Studies, Associate Vice President (Research) and Director of the Knowledge Science Institute at the University of Calgary. His previous positions include Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto, Technical Director and Deputy Chairman of the Monotype Corporation, and Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering Science at the University of Essex. He received his BA, MA and PhD from Trinity College, Cambridge, and is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Psychologist, and a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, the British Computer Society and the British Psychological Society. He is editor of the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies and Knowledge Acquisition, and of the Computers and People and Knowledge-Based Systems book series. He has authored over 400 papers and authored or edited 10 books on a wide variety of aspects of computer and human systems. His research interests include: the socio-economic dynamics of science and technology; the nature, acquisition and transfer of knowledge; software engineering for heterogeneous systems; and the support of scholarly communities through the Internet. |
Keynote Veronique de Keyser
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Veronique de Keyser is full Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Liege in Belgium where she runs an Excellence Research Center (PAI). Her research team carries out basic and applied research in cognitive psychology, cognitive ergonomics, and AI Basic research is mainly focussed on human error, dynamic decision making in naturalistic situations and cognitive modelling. Applied research concerns human-computer interactions in dynamic and risky environments, such as aeronautics and anaesthesiology. Currently President of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, Director of the review Le Travail Humain, Veronique is an expert for the Belgian and French scientific authorities and for several programmes of the European Commission. Her main publications are related to time and human error. |
Paper sessions:
Plus two panel sessions, posters, videos, the interactive experience and conference exhibition.
Friday Sessions
Keynote Johanna Moore Conversations with Applications
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Johanna D. Moore is Professor of
Artificial Intelligence and Director of the Human
Communication Research Centre at the University of
Edinburgh. Her research is aimed at developing
computational models of the way that humans understand
and generate natural language and graphical
representations. Advances in this research program will
improve the communicative capabilities of computer
systems that assist, instruct, educate, or represent
their users (e.g., expert systems, intelligent tutoring
systems, and software agents). Professor Moore has directed and participated in several externally funded interdisciplinary research projects applying her expertise in natural language processing, planning, and knowledge representation to problems in intelligent tutoring systems, human-computer interaction, and the automatic generation of interactive presentations with coordinated text and graphics. Professor Moore is the author of "Participating in Explanatory Dialogues" (MIT Press, 1995), and is the recipient of a National Science Foundation National Young Investigator Award. She serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, and has served as Guest Editor for the journals Computational Linguistics and Knowledge Based Systems. She was Program Chair for the 17th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (1995) and the 1997 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. |
Keynote Joy Mountford What and how should we design?
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S. Joy Mountford joined Interval
Research Corporation recently to manage a multi-media
development project. Ms. Mountford had been the manager
of the Human Interface Group at Apple Computer for nearly
eight years. Before joining Apple, Joy worked at MCC,
America's 5th generation computer consortium and prior to
that she designed advanced user interfaces for military
avionics systems at Honeywell. Her past research
experience has focused on the application of technologies
such as speech recognition and generation, intelligent
systems, tactile controllers and head-mounted systems. At Apple her advanced development interface group was responsible for extending the user interface beyond current desktop applications. The Human Interface Group's areas of interest and research included; audio and speech, 3-D design tasks, hand-held players, and the development of multi-media systems. The Human Interface Group, in ATG, were players in the evolution of QuickTime, Navigable Scenes, Bubble Help, AppleSearch and other consumer-based portable devices. Recently she has turned her attentions towards the design of media SoundScapes that can be shared across the Internet. Joy has given a series of invited lectures and presentations worldwide using interactive multi-media demonstrations. She also initiated and continues to oversee Apple's International Interface Design Project. This project has been a catalyst in setting up various interdisciplinary courses at Universities around the world. She also produced the "Art of Human-Computer Interface Design", a major instructional interface text. Her personal interests included encouraging interface innovation in such applications as choreography, music, animation and performance art. Joy's graduate work was at the University of Illinois in Engineering Psychology, and her undergraduate work at University College, London. |
Paper sessions:
Plus one panel session.
Full listing of papers in advance programme - outline in HTML to follow.
Additional enquiries to:
M. Angela Sasse (University College London)
tel: +44 (0) 171 380 7212 fax: +44 (0) 171 387 1397
mail: a.sasse@cs.ucl.ac.uk
An invitation is extended to individuals with an interest in developing a panel session around a stimulating or controversial theme in the general field of HCI. Topics and/or themes for a panel session may also be proposed by individuals with an interest in chairing a panel on a topic that excites them. Preference will be given to those topics which raise forward-looking and/or contentious issues, and which will promote debate among panel members and involvement with the audience. All suggestions will be assessed with respect to topicality and suitability for generating stimulating debate.
Submissions are currently under review.
Additional enquiries to: David Benyon (Napier University) tel:
+44 (0) 131 455 5317 fax: +44 (0) 131 455 4552
email: d.benyon@dcs.napier.ac.uk
These are the main format for presenting late-breaking research results. Posters will be on display throughout the conference. Authors will be able to attend their posters during breaks, and there will be scheduled attendances during conference sessions. Submissions should address topics that are suitable for poster presentation. They should be sharply focused, address a clear research question and present clear and well grounded results. Posters are not suitable for untested ideas, or for work that has been previously submitted to conferences or journals in a longer format.
Submissions
are currently under review.
Additional enquiries to: Alison Cawsey (Heriot Watt University)
tel: +44 (0) 131 451 3413
email: alison@cee.hw.ac.uk
The INTERACT '99 Doctoral Consortium provides an opportunity for a group of Ph.D. students to explore together their interests in an interdisciplinary workshop with a group of established researchers. The consortium will operate in a workshop format, providing feedback on the participants' current research and guidance for future directions. Student participants selected will be assigned to one of two groups for a one day workshop on either Monday 30 August or Tuesday 31 August. Extended abstracts by the selected students will be published in the conference proceedings. Candidates for the consortium will be selected by a panel of experts. Where the panel considers the work to be appropriate, the student may be invited to submit a full paper. Students chosen to attend the doctoral consortium will have their conference registration fees waived.
Submissions
are currently under review.
Additional enquiries to: John Karat (IBM TJ Watson Research
Center) tel: +1 914 784 7832 fax: +1 914 784 6211
email: jkarat@us.ibm.com
James Alty (Loughborough University) tel: +44 (0) 1509 222648 fax:
+44 (0) 1509 211586
email: J.L.Alty@lboro.ac.uk
Submissions were invited for videos that show novel user interface designs or systems that demonstrate innovative interaction features or techniques, or give glimpses into the future of HCI.
Submissions
are currently under review.
Additional enquiries to: Richard Coyne (University of
Edinburgh) tel: +44 (0) 131 650 2332 fax: +44 (0) 131 650 8019
email: richard@caad.ed.ac.uk
The interactive experience will consist of live demonstrations of experimental interactive systems, user interfaces or design aids. Where possible and appropriate, displays should offer conference delegates opportunities for hands-on interaction, preferably without the assistance of a demonstrator. Items for the Interactive Experience will be selected on the basis of their novelty, technical or theoretical merit and relevance.
Submissions
are currently under review.
Additional enquiries to: Steve Brewster (University of Glasgow)
tel: +44 (0) 141 330 4966 fax: +44 (0) 141 330 4913
email: stephen@dcs.gla.ac.uk
Submissions were invited for overviews of laboratories or organisations where demonstrated excellence in or innovative contributions to HCI are taking place. Overviews will be selected on the basis of their relevance, novelty and technical or theoretical merit.
Submissions
are currently under review.
Additional enquiries to: Rob Procter (University of Edinburgh)
tel: +44 (0) 131 650 5177 fax: +44 (0) 131 667 7209
email: rnp@dcs.ed.ac.uk
Contributions were invited describing the introduction, application, adaptation or extension of HCI theory, methods, tools and techniques in professional research or development environments, and the structural, organisational, financial and professional implications of this activity. Case studies, pioneering applications in new domains or sectors, cost-benefit analyses, organisational impact, participative design experience, management structures, trade-offs and discount methods and when to use them, the place of the HCI professional in the development group, the promotion of the HCI profession, training needs and requirements in a changing market, professional accreditation, and the balancing of research focus with industrial deadlines in collaborative projects, are among the areas which this section is intended to cover. Unsuccessful cases are often just as valuable as those which succeed, and participants are particularly encouraged to share through this forum their experience of mistakes and blind alleys, and the lessons learned from them. Papers may also highlight priority areas for further research, and areas of expertise which educators and trainers need to address to meet the evolving skill requirements of professional system designers and developers.
Submissions
are currently under review.
Additional enquiries to: Alistair Kilgour (Heriot Watt
University) tel: +44 (0) 131 451 3438 fax: +44 (0) 131 451 3431
email: A.C.Kilgour@hw.ac.uk
Instructions for Authors are available here or by contacting the Conference Secretariat. All submissions were reviewed by an international panel of HCI experts. The official written and spoken language of the conference is English.
Exhibits are invited from interested commercial organisations, concerned with the design, development deployment or evaluation of all types of interactive systems, services or devices, or from organisations involved in HCI or human factors research areas and involving such aspects as usability, support tools and techniques, and education. INTERACT '99 is THE international conference in the area of Human-Computer Interaction. This large and diverse conference provides companies with an excellent opportunity to showcase their HCI-related products and services.
Organisations are invited to participate in INTERACT '99 as corporate sponsors. This is an ideal opportunity to demonstrate the commitment of your organisation to HCI and achieve a marketing profile for your company. Several levels of sponsorship are available.
Brochures
giving details of the exhibition and/or sponsorship are available
from: INTERACT '99 Secretariat, Meeting Makers, Jordanhill Campus,
76 Southbrae Drive, Glasgow G13 1PP tel: +44 (0) 141 553 1930 fax:
+44 (0) 141 552 0511
email: interact@meetingmakers.co.uk
