| A Surprise Introduction to SIGCHI | | BIB | PDF | 1-2 | |
| Ayman Mukerji | |||
| Opening SIGCHI to the World | | BIB | PDF | 3-4 | |
| Mike Atwood; Guy Boy | |||
| Communicating with International Audiences | | BIBA | PDF | 5-6 | |
| David G. Novick | |||
| Issues of international cooperation in the CHI community were made personal for me when I moved from the United States to France in July of 1996. Things that I should have noticed before, and which had slid right by me, all of a sudden became salient. For many people already immersed in internationally diverse work environments, much of this will probably be familiar. For those who tend to work within their own national environment, here are some observations and suggestions based on my experiences working in France that I hope will be of help. The most practical of these suggestions involve how to give a talk for an international audience, whether or not you're a native speaker of the meeting's target language. | |||
| Degrees in Human-Computer Interaction: A Common Name is Emerging and Opportunities are Expanding | | BIB | PDF | 7-8 | |
| Andrew Sears | |||
| Deer Hunter Bucks the Trend | | BIB | PDF | 9-12 | |
| Shannon Ford | |||
| Designers of the Future | | BIB | PDF | 13-14 | |
| Allison Druin; Alex Kruskal; Hanne Olsen; Isabe;la Revett; Thomas Plaisant Schwenn; Lauren Sumida; Rebecca Wagner | |||
| Building a Community Website, SIGCHI.NL goes Online | | BIB | PDF | 15-16 | |
| Peter Boersma | |||
| Starting a SIGCHI Local Group in the Netherlands | | BIB | PDF | 17-21 | |
| Steven Pemberton | |||
| Innovation and Evaluation of Information Exploration Interfaces: A CHI98 Workshop | | BIBA | PDF | 22-25 | |
| Gene Golovchinsky; Nicholas J. Belkin | |||
| This report summarizes a workshop held at CHI 98 that focused on several aspects of information exploration, including user interfaces, theory, and evaluation. Information exploration is a common activity that spans a variety of media and is an integral component of many information seeking behaviors that people engage in. The complexity of this activity, and the need to support it appropriately, led us to propose this workshop. Over the course of two days, we examined several aspects of this problem, struggled with a few definitions, and came away with a better understanding of the design space. Here we summarize those efforts. | |||
| Web Navigation Resolving Conflicts between the Desktop and the Web: A CHI98 Workshop | | BIBA | PDF | 26-28 | |
| Carola Fellenz; Jarmo Parkkinen; Hal Shubin | |||
| This paper summarizes a workshop at CHI 98 that focused on navigational
problems caused by differences in navigational models between the desktop and
the Web. The goal of this workshop was to identify usability problems
encountered when users move from the "traditional" desktop to the Web and to
identify ways to minimize transfer-learning problems between the two platforms.
The major outcome of the workshop was the classification of Web usage. We developed three categories: browsing, performing transactions and running applications. Each type of usage has its own characteristics and design requirements. In addition, we identified a category of application that interacts directly with the Internet, without needing a browser as an intermediary. We called these Net applications. | |||
| Mobile Informatics Innovation of IT Use in Mobile Settings: IRIS'21 Workshop Report | | BIBA | PDF | 29-34 | |
| Steinar Kristoffersen; Fredrik Ljungberg | |||
| In this paper, we report from the workshop "Mobile Informatics: Innovation of IT use in mobile settings," arranged in conjunction with the IRIS'21 conference in Saeby, Denmark. We suggested Mobile Informatics as a field concerned with exploring new and innovative ways of using IT in mobile settings. By organizing the workshop, we attempted to introduce footholds for Mobile Informatics within the IRIS community. In particular, we wanted to explore the basis for such a field and elicit relevant issues for future research. The workshop was supported by the Swedish Information Technology Research Institute (SITI). | |||
| VRI'98 Visual Representations and Interpretations Workshop | | BIBA | PDF | 35-36 | |
| Irene Neilson; Ray Paton | |||
| The value of multi-disciplinary research, the exchanging of ideas and methods across traditional discipline boundaries, is well recognised. Indeed, it could be justifiably argued that many of the advances in science and engineering take place because the ideas, methods and the tools of thought from one discipline become re-applied in others. Sadly, it is also the case that many subject areas develop specialised vocabularies and concepts and indeed may also approach more general problems in fairly narrow subject-specific ways. As a result barriers develop between disciplines that prevent the free flow of ideas and the collaborations that could often bring success. The VRI'98 workshop, which was held at the Foresight Centre at the University of Liverpool on September 22-24, 1998, was intended to break down such barriers. | |||
| The User Interface in Text Retrieval Systems Revisited, A Letter to the Editor | | BIB | PDF | 37 | |
| Jef Raskin | |||
| Web Usability: A Review of the Research | | BIBA | PDF | 38-40 | |
| Alfred T. Lee | |||
| As with the information technologies that have preceded it, Web technology is faced with many of the same issues of accessibility and usability. Paraphrasing the definition supplied by the ISO [1], Web usability is the efficient, effective and satisfying completion of a specified task by any given Web user. Support of essential user tasks made possible by Web technology serves is the benchmark of its usability. With this definition in mind, a brief review of available empirical research on Web usability was carried out to determine what is known about the factors that might affect Web usability. This review is not intended to be exhaustive nor is it intended as a review of the many design alternatives and suggestions that have been proposed for improving Web use. The primary purpose of this review is to identify Web-specific usability research and to provide some suggestions for future research. | |||
| A Journey into Web Usability: What an Informed Architect Learned on His Summer Vacation | | BIB | PDF | 41-42 | |
| Steve Toub | |||
| SIGCHI Financial Report | | BIB | PDF | 43-44 | |
| Jean Scholtz | |||
| The SIGCHI International Issues Committee Survey: A Brief Report | | BIB | PDF | 45-46 | |
| Guy Boy | |||
| Overviews and Reviews | | BIB | PDF | 47-48 | |
| Karen McGraw | |||
| NEWSSIGCHI News | | BIB | PDF | 49-71 | |
| The Real World | | BIB | PDF | 74 | |
| Lon Barfield | |||
| Image, Image: image, image, image | | BIB | PDF | 75 | |
| Steven Pemberton | |||
| A Surprise Introduction to SIGCHI | | BIB | PDF | 1 | |
| Ayman Mukerji | |||
| Two Significant Events | | BIB | PDF | 2-3 | |
| Mike Atwood; Guy Boy | |||
| HCI Education in Sweden | | BIB | PDF | 3-7 | |
| Jan Gulliksen; Lars Ostreicher | |||
| That Visual Thing | | BIB | PDF | 8-9 | |
| Frank M. Marchak; Shannon Ford | |||
| Challenges Facing CHI Local SIGs | | BIB | PDF | 10-11 | |
| Richard I. Anderson | |||
| Where is the Industry Going | | BIB | PDF | 12-13 | |
| Allison Druin | |||
| HCI in Germany -- Some Impressions and Facts from the Scene | | BIB | PDF | 14-16 | |
| Peter Gorny; Horst Oberquelle | |||
| It's not Greek to Me: Terminology and the Second Language | | BIBAK | PDF | 17-24 | |
| Giorgos Lepouras; George R. S. Weir | |||
| The localisation of software applications is a common way of avoiding
'second-language' difficulties but can lead to new problems in user
interaction. One determinant of this condition is the selection of appropriate
terminology for local language use. The present paper reports on a comparison
of terminology from three leading word processor packages, in their English and
Greek language varieties. Diversity in terminology, the resort to
transliteration, and scope for neologism are characteristic results of
localisation that underline the risks of confusion in the target user
population. This paper discusses the possibility of preventative measures and
offers a remedial approach to this problem for use in the considered
applications. Keywords: Human-computer interaction, Standardisation, Internationalisation,
Localisation, Terminology, User support | |||
| User Centered Design -- Problems and Possibilities: A Summary of the 1998 PDC and CSCW Workshop | | BIB | PDF | 25-35 | |
| Jan Gulliksen; Ann Lantz; Inger Boivie | |||
| "Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide," by Jared M. Spool, Tara Scanlon, Will Schroeder, Carolyn Snyder, Terri DeAngelo | | BIB | PDF | 26-37 | |
| Karen L. McGraw | |||
| SIGCHI News | | BIB | PDF | 38-47 | |
| Pointing | | BIB | PDF | 48 | |
| Lon Barfield | |||
| Off to India | | BIB | PDF | 1 | |
| Ayman Mukerji | |||
| A New Vision for SIGCHI | | BIB | PDF | 2-3 | |
| Marilyn Tremaine | |||
| Instilling Interdisciplinarity -- HCI from the Perspective of Cognitive Sciences | | BIB | PDF | 4-5 | |
| Yvonne Rogers | |||
| Collaboration and Design from a Distance: University of Pennsylvania Law School Case Study | | BIB | PDF | 6-8 | |
| Jodi Forlizzi; Laura Franz | |||
| CHI Local SIGs in the Americas Outside of the U.S. | | BIB | PDF | 9-11 | |
| Richard I. Anderson | |||
| What Happens when There is Research Funding for New Technologies for Children? | | BIB | PDF | 12-14 | |
| Allison Druin; Kristian Simsarian | |||
| CSCW'98 Workshop Report: Collaborative and Co-Operative Information Seeking | | BIB | PDF | 15-18 | |
| Elizabeth Churchill; Dave Snowdon; Joseph W. Sullivan; Gene Golovchinsky | |||
| "User and Task Analysis for Interface Design," by JoAnne T. Hackos and Janice C. Redish | | BIB | PDF | 19-20 | |
| Larry E. Wood | |||
| Strategies for a Better User Interface | | BIBA | PDF | 21-23 | |
| Leonel Morales Diaz | |||
| Even though it has not been formally defined what a user-computer interface is; it is possible to describe the challenges and compromises a system designer must confront to approach that definition. The way those challenges and compromises are solved represents, more than a simple formalism, an strategy, which means, an ingenious solution not necessarily according to the traditional methods for problem solving. The challenges in the user interface design process may be a lot, so the strategies are also a lot, but, it is possible to organize that set of decisions into five principal groups: 1. Challenges and strategies for representation 2. Challenges and strategies for localization 3. Challenges and strategies for acquisition and actualization 4. Challenges and strategies for creation, change and destruction 5. Challenges and strategies for action and response Confronting those five challenges and defining the corresponding strategies the complete design of a user-computer interface is achieved. | |||
| Events | | BIB | PDF | 24-26 | |
| The Right Length | | BIB | PDF | 27 | |
| Lon Barfield | |||
| New Beginnings | | BIB | PDF | 1-2 | |
| Joseph A. Konstan | |||
| Web Weaving | | BIB | PDF | 3 | |
| Marilyn Tremaine; Wendy Mackay | |||
| HCI Education -- People and Stories, Diversity and Intolerance | | BIB | PDF | 5-6 | |
| Alan Dix | |||
| CHI Local SIGs: Easy to Find at CHI 99 and, Increasingly, Throughout the World | | BIB | PDF | 7-9 | |
| Richard I. Anderson | |||
| Four Years of CHIkids from a CHIkid! | | BIB | PDF | 11-12 | |
| Allison Druin | |||
| A Research Agenda for Highly Effective Human-Computer Interaction: Useful, Usable, and Universal | | BIB | PDF | 13-16 | |
| Jean Scholtz; Michael Muller; David Novick; Dan R., Jr. Olsen; Ben Shneiderman; Cathleen Wharton | |||
| End User Programming / Informal Programming | | BIBAK | PDF | 17-21 | |
| Howie Goodell; Sarah Kuhn; David Maulsby; Carol Traynor | |||
| The phenomenon we call "programming" is not limited to regular professional
programmers. Farthest away are end user programmers, who program just as a
means to an end in their own professions. In between are people with very
diverse backgrounds, general education, and programming knowledge. Like
professional programmers, they write programs for others as their major job
activity. Yet they also share characteristics of end user programmers, such as
a strong specialization in one application area. All these "informal
programmers" need more study and support to help them maximize their
contributions. Keywords: End user programming (EUP), End user, Informal programming, Programming By
Example (PBE), Programming By Demonstration (PBD), Domain-specific programming
languages, Artificial intelligence (AI), Agents, Natural programming, Software
user communities, Teaching programming, Learning programming, Open source, XML,
Participatory Design (PD) | |||
| Research Issues in the Design of Online Communities: Report on the CHI 99 Workshop | | BIB | PDF | 23-25 | |
| Amy Bruckman; Judith Donath; Thomas Erickson; Wendy Kellogg; Barry Wellman | |||
| Tool Support for Task-Based User Interface Design -- A CHI 99 Workshop | | BIB | PDF | 27-29 | |
| Birgit Bomsdorf; Gerd Szwillus | |||
| Interacting with Statistics -- A CHI 99 Workshop | | BIB | PDF | 31-35 | |
| Michael Levi; Frederick Conrad | |||
| Senior CHI -- The CHI 99 Development Consortium | | BIB | PDF | 37-42 | |
| Jason B. Ellis; Sandra Kogan; Jim Rowan | |||
| SIGCHI's Role in Influencing Technology Policy | | BIB | PDF | 43-46 | |
| Jeff Johnson | |||
| SIGCHI User Interfaces for Electronic Product Catalogs | | BIB | PDF | 47-48 | |
| Jurgen Koenemann; Markus Stolze | |||
| Automated Data Collection for Evaluating Collaborative Systems | | BIBA | PDF | 49-51 | |
| Jill Drury; Tari Fanderclai; Frank Linton | |||
| The purpose of this CHI 99 Special Interest Group (SIG) session was to share lessons learned about using automated logging techniques to collect data for evaluating collaborative (multi-user) systems. Automated logging techniques are frequently used in evaluating the human-computer interaction of single-user systems. There has been much less experience in using logging techniques for evaluating collaborative systems, thus prompting the SIG proposal. We discussed issues surrounding using logging systems, methods, and metrics to collect data that are useful for evaluating collaborative systems. | |||
| Universal Web Access: Delivering Services to Everyone | | BIBA | PDF | 53-54 | |
| Gary Perlman | |||
| The following made brief presentations on their work and/or views on universal accessibility. No topic encompassed all possible dimensions of accessibility, but the diversity of topics highlights the potential to broaden markets to include more users. One goal of the session was to to consider how to broaden these and other projects, while another was to determine how a community of people interested in accessibility can share resources. Part of the discussion attempted to answer what to do next. An online repository is being maintained at: http://www.acm.org/perlman/access/. | |||
| The Active Web | | BIB | PDF | 55-60 | |
| Alan Dix; David Clarke | |||
| "Proceedings Sharing Program" at CHI 99 | | BIB | PDF | 61 | |
| Gary Perlman | |||
| Telephones | | BIB | PDF | 64 | |
| Lon Barfield | |||