Workshop on the INTERACT '99 Conference
Jan Gulliksen, Uppsala University, Sweden
Ann Lantz, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Inger Boivie, Enator AB, Sweden
Few people would object to the necessity of involving users in systems development. In reality, however, user participation is often concentrated to the early phases of modelling and analysis, and usability activities are scheduled late in the project, if included at all. These activities are often performed by a UCD (User Centred Design) facilitator and/or an HCI expert. The actual user interface design is done with a minimum amount of communication with the users, in as little time as possible. Moreover, in traditional systems development, there are few methods for user interface design, and the user interface designer is often a software engineer. So, how do we bring the user interface design process and the UCD process together?
This workshop focuses on certain issues regarding how to make UCD support the user interface designers in their work and help them meet their deadlines, i.e. how to make the UCD process usable for its users. Such issues include, for instance:
For more information about this workshop, see the workshop final call for position papers, or contact Ann Lantz (alz@nada.kth.se).
To qualify for participation, you need to submit a position paper. It should arrive no later than June 7, 1999. Notification of acceptance will be before June 25th.
Submissions should be sent electronically (html, text or Word) to Ann Lantz alz@nada.kth.se
Tel. +46 8 790 6817
Mobile phone +46 70 3621 382
Fax. +46 8 10 24 77
E-mail: alz@nada.kth.se.
The INTERACT'99 Conference takes place in Edinburgh, Scotland, 30th of August - 3rd of September.
Workshops are one-day or two-day events that provide participants with an opportunity to engage in focussed discussions on a particular topic with a small group of like-minded researchers and practitioners. Participation is limited to about 20 people, selected on the basis of short position papers, representing views and experience relevant to the workshop topic. There is an additional fee for workshop participation, to cover the costs of materials and refreshments. The above workshop will be held on the Monday 30th and Tuesday 31st August, 1999 - please note that it is a two-day event.
This workshop is arranged in cooperation with IFIP 13.2 and is a follow-up to the workshop "User-Centred Design in Practice - Problems and Possibilities", held at the Participatory Design Conference (PDC ’98). The results are described in report CID-40 .
Information about the organisers can be found on the user orientation group homepage on CID