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General HCI Discussion :: RE: Committing actions in desktop applications

Author: David More
Subject: Re: Committing actions in desktop applications
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 6:00 pm (GMT 10)
Topic Replies: 1

Generally, instant commits happen with property dialogs (options, settings, preferences) and with database changes which are minor or reversible. An explicit save is a good idea for major and irreversible changes, or otherwise when a business process requires a deliberate act.
I would normally expect that consistency matters most in terms of tasks rather than the apparent working of the application (unless users have to create a mental model of how the application works in order to interpret the interface, in which case consistency matters a great deal).
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David More
Principal Consultant
Optimal Experience

General HCI Discussion :: Committing actions in desktop applications

Author: Jessica Enders
Subject: Committing actions in desktop applications
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 11:32 am (GMT 10)
Topic Replies: 1

Hi everyone
I am currently reviewing a desktop application that involves mostly viewing and changing records in a database (via a nice GUI front end). In some places, changes are "committed" as soon as you enter them, a bit like how Microsoft Access operates. In other places, the user has to specifically "save" to commit changes.
Any opinions on when one approach should be used over the other and whether the inconsistency matters?
Thanks in anticipation,
Jessica
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Jessica Enders
Director
Formulate Information Design
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http://formulate.com.au
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VIC :: Interaction Design Group Seminar, Friday November 16, 3pm

Author: Pbenda
Subject: Interaction Design Group Seminar, Friday November 16, 3pm
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 11:02 pm (GMT 10)
Topic Replies: 0

Please join us for an out of semester seminar this week.

Multimodal interaction and haptics research in the University of Tampere

In this talk Roope will present the research on multimodal interfaces in TAUCHI (Tampere Unit for Computer-Human Interaction) where haptics is used as one of the interaction modalities. He will introduce their projects studying collaboration and learning for visually impaired children, their basic research and applied research on haptics, and the lastest developments focusing on haptics and multimodality in mobile contexts. Longer abstract�

In this talk Roope will present the research on multimodal interfaces in TAUCHI (Tampere Unit for Computer-Human Interaction) where haptics is used as one of the interaction modalities. He will introduce their projects studying collaboration and learning for visually impaired children, their basic research and applied research on haptics, and the lastest developments focusing on haptics and multimodality in mobile contexts.

Roope Raisamo received his Ph.D. in computer science in 1999 at the University of Tampere. He has been doing research on human-computer interaction since 1995 specializing in multimodal interaction and constructive user interface research. Since 1998 he has worked as a full professor at the University of Tampere, appointed in a permanent position in 2003. Prof. Raisamo has been the supervisor, examiner or reviewer of 7 Ph.D. theses. He is the author for more than 70 articles in scientific journals and conferences. His research interests are in the fields of haptic interaction, bimanual interaction, multimodal information presentation, proactive and intelligent environments and multimodal interfaces for the visually impaired children. Since September 2004 he has been coordinating the MICOLE project (Multimodal Collaboration Environment for Inclusion of Visually Impaired Children), funded by the European Union. Presently he coordinates a joint research project with Prof. Mark Cutkosky from Stanford, having active collaboration with Nokia and other Finnish companies studying mobile haptics.

Seminar details:
The seminar will be held in IDEA Lab, Level 4 of the ICT Building.
Time: 3-4pm Friday 16th of November
111 Barry Street, Carlton.

http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/research/groups/interactiondesign/seminars.html

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Regards,

Peter and Bernd

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Peter Josef Benda
Senior Research Fellow
Department of Information Systems
The University of Melbourne
VIC 3010

Location: Level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton
Email: pbenda AT unimelb.edu.au

VIC :: Interaction Design Group Seminar, Friday November 9, 3pm

Author: Pbenda
Subject: Interaction Design Group Seminar, Friday November 9, 3pm
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 6:45 am (GMT 10)
Topic Replies: 0

Please join us for an out of semester seminar this week.

Computer-Based Support for Self-Regulated Learning
The emphasis of dominant educational perspectives has always been on the design of learning contents and the process of learning. Ironically, the most important factor in learning � the learner, is generally given scant attention. Given this tripartite relationship and the notion of an empowered learner, design and process begin to play a supplementary but subservient role.

The emphasis of dominant educational perspectives has always been on the design of learning contents and the process of learning. Ironically, the most important factor in learning � the learner, is generally given scant attention. Given this tripartite relationship and the notion of an empowered learner, design and process begin to play a supplementary but subservient role. During the seminar, Daryl will introduce his research interests in learning, with a focus on the empowered learner. His research direction will involve him investigating how the learning needs of the empowered learner can be supported by computer-based tools.

Daryl Ku is presently 3 months into his PhD candidature. His supervisors are Dr. Jon Pearce and Dr. Wally Smith.

HCI and Online Museums
In this presentation, Asmidah will share her work within the context of online museums, to illustrate the variety of potential research directions for her PhD.

Asmidah Alwi is a PhD student in the Department of Information System. She started her PhD three months ago. Her supervisors are Dr Jon Pearce and Dr Sandrine Balbo.

Seminar details:
The seminar will be held in IDEA Lab, Level 4 of the ICT Building.
Time: 3-4pm Friday 9th of November
111 Barry Street, Carlton.

http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/research/groups/interactiondesign/seminars.html

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Regards,

Peter and Bernd

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Peter Josef Benda
Senior Research Fellow
Department of Information Systems
The University of Melbourne
VIC 3010

Location: Level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton
Email: pbenda AT unimelb.edu.au

VIC :: Discussion group: Design-led Innovation - Nov 22nd, Melb

Author: shanemo
Subject: Discussion group: Design-led Innovation - Nov 22nd, Melb
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:46 am (GMT 10)
Topic Replies: 0

I am leading a discussion around my �Design-led Innovation� talk for a Melbourne UX Community of Practice on 22nd of November from 6pm.

Venue:
Boral
676 Lorimer St, Port Melbourne

All welcome, Shane
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Shane Morris | User Experience Evangelist | Microsoft Australia | shanemo@microsoft.com | blogs.msdn.com/shanemo

VIC :: Interaction Design Group Seminar, Friday November 2, 3pm

Author: Pbenda
Subject: Interaction Design Group Seminar, Friday November 2, 3pm
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:20 am (GMT 10)
Topic Replies: 0

Please join us for an out of semester seminar this week.

Title: eKISS: Sharing Experiences in Families through a Picture Blog

Dr. Mikael Skov

Abstract:
Contemporary family life can be very stressful and many families are
often busy and separated by time or distance. Physical separation
makes it difficult to maintain an awareness of each other and the
feeling of intimacy. But lack of such intimacy can result in insecure
and troubled children. This paper outlines eKISS a picture weblog for
mediating intimacy between children and parents. eKISS supports
asynchronous sharing of experiences from the children to their parents
while being physically separated. Communication is based on pictures
and text sent through mobile technology and shared on a weblog
available to the family. A longitudinal field evaluation revealed that
eKISS was able to support acts of intimacy by providing insight, new
communication channel, and the possibility to easily share
experiences. It also revealed that eKISS was most useful when the
family was separated for longer periods of time.

Mikael Skov is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science
at Aalborg University.

Seminar details:
The seminar will be held in IDEA Lab, Level 4 of the ICT Building.
Time: 3-4pm Friday 2nd of November
111 Barry Street, Carlton.

http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/research/groups/interactiondesign/seminars.html

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Regards,

Peter and Bernd

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Peter Josef Benda
Senior Research Fellow
Department of Information Systems
The University of Melbourne
VIC 3010

Location: Level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton
Email: pbenda AT unimelb.edu.au

VIC :: Special IDG Seminar: Judy Kay Nov 1, 2007 HCI and Teaching

Author: Pbenda
Subject: Special IDG Seminar: Judy Kay Nov 1, 2007 HCI and Teaching
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 3:10 pm (GMT 10)
Topic Replies: 0

Please join us for a special visit by Judy Kay. Details below.

NOTE: room is 5.07 at 2-3pm ICT Building

Title: HCI and Teaching

This talk will overview a set of projects where the personalisation research of the CHAI lab has been integrated into teaching contexts. One of the key ideas underlying these is that a learner model can usefully be created from large scale electronic traces of learner activity. This can be used to personalisation teaching. It also has value in its own right since it has the potential to enable a learner to see how they are doing. Some key technical challenges in creating learner models include the representation of the model and reasoning from the evidence available, defining the learning objectives effectively so they can be modelled and a system can use ontological reasoning across granularity levels. The talk will explain these broad ideas in terms of several systems: Reflect is a tool to support learning areas like programming and interface design; Mirrors and Narcissus and our Educational Data Mining support group work; SIV-UI operates in conjunction with a mixed-delivery UI course with online lectures and on-campus labs. For much more information about these projects and CHAI, please see our web site http://chai.it.usyd.edu.au/index.cgi?Context=Home

Judy Kay's research aims to create personalised computing that is embedded throughout the environment to support people in the broad range of activities that are important to their lives, ranging from learning to maintaining personal relationships. The core of her research is in personalisation which ensures the user can maintain control and the associated work on applications of personalisation and novel interfaces. She is a principal of the CHAI (Computer Human Adapted Interaction) research group. The testbed areas are in ubiquitous, pervasive computing as well as intelligent teaching systems. The latter reflect the research group's work in teaching computer science and in building teaching systems that help develop reflective, deep learners. Major initiatives include the Assess self-assessment system, SIMPRAC a simulation environment that supports reflective learning of medical management, VLUM and SIV novel interfaces to support reflection based on large user models, the Tutor scrutably adaptive hypertext framework, the SATS scrutably adaptive teaching system and the JITT (Just-in-time Training) support for workplace learning.

She has over 200 publications in the areas of personalisation and teaching and learning. She has presented invited keynote addresses at major conferences, such as UM'94 User Modeling Conference, Boston, USA; IJCAI'95 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Montreal, Canada; ICCE'97, International Conference on Computers in Education, Kuching, Malaysia; ITS'2000, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Montreal, Canada; AH2006 Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, Dublin, Ireland.

Seminar details:
The seminar will be held in 5.07, Level 5 of the ICT Building.
Time: 2-3pm
111 Barry Street, Carlton.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Regards,

Peter and Bernd

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Peter Josef Benda
Senior Research Fellow
Department of Information Systems
The University of Melbourne
VIC 3010

Location: Level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton
Email: pbenda AT unimelb.edu.au

VIC :: University of Melbourne Scholarships--Deadline 31 October 07

Author: Pbenda
Subject: University of Melbourne Scholarships--Deadline 31 October 07
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 2:10 pm (GMT 10)
Topic Replies: 0

The University of Melbourne is offering scholarships (Australian Postgraduate Awards - APAs) to outstanding students from Australia wishing to pursue higher degrees by research in the field of HCI, Interaction Design and Usability.

Students with a background in HCI, information systems or cognate disciplines are encouraged to apply. For Australian applicants we require either at least a 2A honours or a research masters degree.

Australian and New Zealand citizens should follow these 2 steps to apply:
1) contact the School of Graduate Studies for PhD application forms and further information:
call (03) 8344 8599,
send email to graduate_information@sgs.unimelb.edu.au
or visit http://www.gradstudies.unimelb.edu.au/.

2) contact the Scholarships Office for an APA application form:
call (03) 8344 8747 or visit
http://www.services.unimelb.edu.au/scholarships/

Closing date is Wednesday, 31st October, 2007

Graduate Research Scholarships Hotline 1800 67 41 69

Regards

Frank Vetere

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Frank Vetere
Department of Information Systems
University of Melbourne
111 Barry St. Carlton Vic 3053, AUSTRALIA
tel: +61 3 8344 1496
fax: +61 3 9349 4596
f.vetere@unimelb.edu.au
www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/staff/fvetere/
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VIC :: Interaction Design Group Seminar, Friday October 26 3pm

Author: Pbenda
Subject: Interaction Design Group Seminar, Friday October 26 3pm
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:24 pm (GMT 10)
Topic Replies: 0

Please join us for a seminar this week.

We have two shorter presentations today as preparation for conference presentations. Also, nibblies and drinks shall be provided as this is end of semester!

Title: Happy coincidences in designing for social connectedness and play through opportunistic image capture

We explore the opportunities and constraints for sharing personal and �social group� communications through the use of multi-location interactive image displays and mobile image capture devices. Accordingly, we seek to provide a better understanding of the use of such technologies in supporting close tie relationships through the implementation of Collage, an interactive image display.

Collage has been designed for immediate and lightweight modes of sharing though synchronous and asynchronous interaction between users and digital images/text. We report on the results of a technology probe with three related families over a ten-week period. Through interviews and participant data we provide a rich account of their use with the system, emergent practices and usability issues that enabled and limited their experience of sharing digital family images. We also show evidence for user driven resolution of ambiguities in the system as an enabler of new experiences -what might be called �happy coincidences�.

Shawn Ashkanasy is a PhD student in the department supervised by Frank Vetere. Peter Benda is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Information Systems.

Title: Evaluating a Distributed Physical Leisure Game for Three Players

Florian �Floyd� Mueller will present the results of the evaluation of �Table Tennis for Three�, a system that allows three players in three geographically separate locations to play a table tennis-like game together. Unlike the Wii and other console games, it uses a real table tennis table, bat and ball to provide an experience focused on fast reflexes, hand-eye coordination and social interaction. The evaluation showed that such an approach can scale to three locations, but needs to consider certain aspects characteristic to a distributed environment.

A video of the game in action is at:

http://exertioninterfaces.com/table_tennis_for_three

The results will be presented at OzCHI in November as a long paper. The work was done with Martin Gibbs and used the system that was based on an initial grant by the University of Melbourne-CSIRO collaborative research grant.

Florian 'Floyd' Mueller researches novel interfaces that gap the bridge between human bodies and technology. His latest research interest is the concept of Exertion Interfaces: interfaces that deliberately require intense physical effort to facilitate social connectedness, to enable what he calls Sports over a Distance. He applies networking technology to activities that lie outside the realm of work-related tasks to contribute to people�s well-being despite them being geographically apart.

Floyd earned his first degree in Digital Media from Furtwangen, Germany. He received his second degree in Multimedia from Griffith University in Brisbane and a Masters degree in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, USA. He received two scholarships to study in the USA and Australia, and was also offered a Fulbright scholarship and a Media Lab Europe Fellowship. He also has extensive work experience from the USA, Australia, Ireland and Germany, where he worked for industry and academic research organizations such as Virtual Artists, Springer Verlag, Xerox PARC, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, MIT, Media Lab Europe and the University of Melbourne. His last appointment was Principal Scientist at CSIRO � Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia, where he led the �Connecting People� group, consisting of 12 staff, researching the future of human connectedness.

Floyd received several awards, published for the major human-computer interaction conferences (CHI etc), and exhibited his work at Wired�s NextFest and other international festivals. He was also a semi-finalist of MIT�s 50K entrepreneurship competition. Floyd�s research is centered on the challenge of creating interfaces that are engaging and fun, not simply functional.

Seminar details:
The seminar will be held in IDEA Lab, Level 4 of the ICT Building.
Time: 3-4pm Friday 26th of October
111 Barry Street, Carlton.

http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/research/groups/interactiondesign/seminars.html

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Regards,

Peter and Bernd

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Peter Josef Benda
Senior Research Fellow
Department of Information Systems
The University of Melbourne
VIC 3010

Location: Level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton
Email: pbenda AT unimelb.edu.au

General HCI Discussion :: Usability and Accessibility of WIKIs

Author: Steve Roberts
Subject: Usability and Accessibility of WIKIs
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 8:51 am (GMT 10)
Topic Replies: 0

Has anyone conducted any Usability and Accessibility studies of WIKIs? If so, please share the results with us.

VIC :: Interaction Design Group Seminar, Friday October 19 3pm

Author: Pbenda
Subject: Interaction Design Group Seminar, Friday October 19 3pm
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 1:51 pm (GMT 10)
Topic Replies: 0

Please join us for a seminar this week.

We have two honours students presenting--Matt Daniel and Jeremy Smith.

Connected Quitters: Temporality and computer-mediated social support for smoking cessation
Social support has been identified critical to smoking cessation. Increasing numbers of people are now exchanging this support online, in dedicated quit communities like Quitnet (www.quitnet.com) and support groups within larger social networks like MySpace. Smoking cessation is a temporally sensitive process, with the timing and intensity of support being crucial, especially in the early stages post-quit. There is a limited literature on the temporal aspects of usability (TAU) which has mainly been applied to work-related contexts. Through qualitative interviews with individuals seeking support online in their quit attempt, this research explores the role of the interface and the relationship between the temporal aspects of the quit process and their use of the community.

Matthew Daniel is an Honours student in the department. His supervisors are Steve Howard and Peter Benda.

A Poke is Worth a Thousand Words: Social Networking and Phatic Interactions

This thesis examines the increasingly popular world of online social networking and a component of communication responsible for relationship development and maintenance, over and above the exchange of information. This is often referred to as phatic communication. Recent studies have demonstrated that technologies can play a part in mediating this component of communication, however there has been no investigation into the presence or the nature of this in the highly social world of online social networking websites.

The present study examines the use of the popular social networking website Facebook for the nature and existence of phatic communication. It was found that phatic communication is very prevalent and appears to fall within several distinct categories, and is manifested in a wide, varied and often unique way.

Jeremy Smith begun studying at Melbourne University in 2002 completing a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Psychology. In mid 2004 he converted to a Science (psych.)/Information Systems double-degree and is currently completing his Honours year in Information Systems. He is supervised by Frank Vetere, Peter Benda, Christine Satchell & Steve Howard.

Seminar details:
The seminar will be held in IDEA Lab, Level 4 of the ICT Building.
Time: 3-4pm Friday 19th of October
111 Barry Street, Carlton.

http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/research/groups/interactiondesign/seminars.html

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Regards,

Peter and Bernd

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Peter Josef Benda
Senior Research Fellow
Department of Information Systems
The University of Melbourne
VIC 3010

Location: Level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton
Email: pbenda AT unimelb.edu.au

VIC :: Interaction Design Group Seminar, Friday October 12 3pm

Author: Pbenda
Subject: Interaction Design Group Seminar, Friday October 12 3pm
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 11:59 am (GMT 10)
Topic Replies: 0

Please join us for a seminar this week.

Title: Sports over a Distance at Distance Lab, UK

Florian �Floyd� Mueller spent the last three months at Distance Lab, Scotland, as part of his PhD studies in the Interaction Design group on Exertion Interfaces.

Distance Lab is a new non-profit research organization that melds technology, design and the arts to transform communication, creativity and connectedness over a distance, inspired by the MIT Media Lab. Floyd will report on this work at Distance Lab which includes a new Jogging over a Distance prototype that uses heart rate data and spatialized sound to allow geographically separate jogging partners to have a �jogging together� experience although being apart and having different fitness levels, as well as a novel shadowboxing game called �Remote Impact� that supports brute force in a full-body contact activity between remote participants, inspired by the popularity of contact sports such as rugby, wrestling or boxing.

See: http://www.distancelab.org/projects/remoteimpact/

Floyd was also invited to give a talk at Distance Lab, which can be watched here:

http://www.distancelab.org/events/openstudio002/

Bio:
Florian 'Floyd' Mueller researches novel interfaces that gap the bridge between human bodies and technology. His latest research interest is the concept of Exertion Interfaces: interfaces that deliberately require intense physical effort to facilitate social connectedness, to enable what he calls Sports over a Distance. He applies networking technology to activities that lie outside the realm of work-related tasks to contribute to people�s well-being despite them being geographically apart.

Floyd earned his first degree in Digital Media from Furtwangen, Germany. He received his second degree in Multimedia from Griffith University in Brisbane and a Masters degree in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, USA. He received two scholarships to study in the USA and Australia, and was also offered a Fulbright scholarship and a Media Lab Europe Fellowship. He also has extensive work experience from the USA, Australia, Ireland and Germany, where he worked for industry and academic research organizations such as Virtual Artists, Springer Verlag, Xerox PARC, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, MIT, Media Lab Europe and the University of Melbourne. His last appointment was Principal Scientist at CSIRO � Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia, where he led the �Connecting People� group, consisting of 12 staff, researching the future of human connectedness.

Floyd received several awards, published for the major human-computer interaction conferences (CHI etc), and exhibited his work at Wired�s NextFest and other international festivals. He was also a semi-finalist of MIT�s 50K entrepreneurship competition.

Floyd�s research is centered on the challenge of creating interfaces that are engaging and fun, not simply functional.

Seminar details:
The seminar will be held in IDEA Lab, Level 4 of the ICT Building.
Time: 3-4pm Friday 12th of October
111 Barry Street, Carlton.

http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/research/groups/interactiondesign/seminars.html

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Regards,

Peter and Bernd

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Peter Josef Benda
Senior Research Fellow
Department of Information Systems
The University of Melbourne
VIC 3010

Location: Level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton
Email: pbenda AT unimelb.edu.au

NSW :: Interaction Design Course Sydney 23 October 2007

Author: tanialang
Subject: Interaction Design Course Sydney 23 October 2007
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 1:21 pm (GMT 10)
Topic Replies: 0

Peak Usability are pleased to announce a new date for our Interaction Design course in Sydney. We have delivered these already in Melbourne and Brisbane and received great feedback.

Interaction Design - one day � Sydney 23 October 2007
Human behaviour and characteristics as well as interaction design theory and principles for designing usable applications, intranet and internet sites.

Overview
Ever wonder why users don't behave how you expect? Ever done usability testing or found usability issues but didn't know how to fix them?

This course will provide an insight into human characteristics and online behaviour based on latest research and hundreds of usability tests with users, including video footage of usability test sessions. We will also cover the theory and principles of interaction design.

For more details see:
http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/interaction-design.html

Registration specials:
Register two people from the same organisation or government agency before 8th October and a third person can attend for free.

Tania Lang

Creating engaging online experiences

Suite 502, 131 Wickham Tce, Brisbane 4000

PH: 07 3839 9593
FAX: 07 3939 7449
MOB: 0419 732 142

WEB: www.peakusability.com.au
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Tania Lang
Peak Usability
www.peakusability.com.au

VIC :: Interaction Design Group Seminar, Friday October 5 3pm

Author: Pbenda
Subject: Interaction Design Group Seminar, Friday October 5 3pm
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:59 pm (GMT 10)
Topic Replies: 0

Please join us for a seminar this week.

Title: From Aristotle to Philip Morris to Schwarzenegger: A PhD Thesis on Persuasive Technology & Social Network Sites

The aim of this PhD project is to investigate persuasive phenomena that arise on online social network sites and in related real life contexts of a special group of athletes - bodybuilders. Persuasion is concerned with phenomena related to the creation, reinforcement or conversion of a person's attitudes or behaviours. HCI research has adopted principles of persuasion to design technology with the purpose to persuade. One research stream in persuasive technology is concerned with how online communities help people to change their behaviours, e.g., to give up smoking or to lose weight. However little is known how a new category of online communities - social network sites (e.g., Facebook, MySpace) - works as persuasive technologies.

In this seminar Bernd will present his first half-year journey of being a PhD student in the interaction design group, a journey that has led him from Aristotelian persuasion over persuasive technology in smoking cessation to social network sites for bodybuilders. Bernd will discuss the background for his PhD project and outline his first study, which will apply a variety of ethnographic techniques to study bodybuilders online and in the field. Bernd is still figuring out how to conduct the study and will welcome your feedback.

Bernd Ploderer is a PhD student in the department. His supervisors are Assoc. Prof. Steve Howard and Prof. Peter Thomas. Further information about Bernd's research can be found at: http://web.dis.unimelb.edu.au/Pgrad/berndp/

Seminar details:
The seminar will be held in IDEA Lab, Level 4 of the ICT Building.
Time: 3-4pm Friday 5th of October
111 Barry Street, Carlton.

http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/research/groups/interactiondesign/seminars.html

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Regards,

Peter and Bernd

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Peter Josef Benda
Senior Research Fellow
Department of Information Systems
The University of Melbourne
VIC 3010

Location: Level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton
Email: pbenda AT unimelb.edu.au

VIC :: Interaction Design Group Seminar, Friday September 28 3pm

Author: Pbenda
Subject: Interaction Design Group Seminar, Friday September 28 3pm
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:47 am (GMT 10)
Topic Replies: 0

Please join us for a seminar this week.

Title: Applying HCI to Experimental Design

Speaker: Dr. Rosanne Price

Abstract:
HCI techniques and user-centered design have been applied to design of on-line systems: but has anyone considered using these techniques in the context of experimental design? In the course of designing a series of quantitative experiments on the use of data quality information (i.e. DQ tags) in decision-making, questions were raised both with respect to (1) the specific types of DQ tags that should be considered in the experiments and (2) how best to represent and display DQ tags in the experimental interface. The first question is motivated by concerns regarding the difficulty of finding sufficient numbers of participants and the need to concentrate resources on those types of DQ tags most likely to be relevant to users, especially since previous field work suggested that some tag types are much more meaningful to users than others. The second question is motivated by the need to support experimental validity by ensuring that the experimental design is relevant and understandable to participants. In this presentation, I will describe an on-going exploratory study with Professor Graeme Shanks (DIS, University of Melbourne) that uses HCI techniques to address these questions and ask for your feedback on the design, implications, and reporting of the study.

Biography:
Rosanne J. Price is an Australian Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Information Systems in the University of Melbourne. Her research interests and publications are in the area of data quality, databases, information systems (spatiotemporal and multimedia), and object-oriented and conceptual modelling. She received her PhD from Monash University. She has had over fourteen years of academic and professional experience, including a senior research fellow position at Monash University and research/lecturing positions at University of Melbourne, RMIT, and European divisions of Boston University and the University of Maryland.

Seminar details:
The seminar will be held in IDEA Lab, Level 4 of the ICT Building.
Time: 3-4pm Friday 28th of September
111 Barry Street, Carlton.

http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/research/groups/interactiondesign/seminars.html

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Regards,

Peter and Bernd

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Peter Josef Benda
Senior Research Fellow
Department of Information Systems
The University of Melbourne
VIC 3010

Location: Level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton
Email: pbenda AT unimelb.edu.au