Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 08:38:48 -0500
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From: Jennifer Cypher <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLES OF HUMANE INTERFACE DESIGN

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> CITO/ToRCHI INNOTALK
> UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLES OF HUMANE INTERFACE DESIGN
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>
> Date: May 14, 2001 - 8:30 am - 5 pm
> Toronto, Ontario
>
> To view detailed information online or register, visit:
> http://www.cito.ca/events/events/innomay142001.shtml
>
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> PRESENTER
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> JEF RASKIN, A.K.A. "THE FATHER OF APPLE'S MACINOTOSH"
> Jef Raskin, a consultant on human-machine interaction design, is
> best known as the father of Apple's Macintosh computer. His new
> book, "The Humane Interface" (Addison Wesley, 2000) which
> recently reached 36th on Amazon's best-seller list, is due for
> its fourth printing less than a year after its original
> publication and is being translated into a half-dozen languages.
> It is widely used as a college and university text and many
> companies have made it required reading for their entire design
> staffs.
>
> Jef has written over 500 articles in many venues, including CACM,
> Spectrum, Innovations, Quantum, Wired, Skeptical Inquirer,
> Computer, Byte, and dozens of others. He writes a column on
> interface issues for Forbes. A past conductor of the San
> Francisco Chamber Opera Co., his varied career has also included
> being a computer center director and art professor at the
> University of California, the CEO of Information Appliance Inc.,
> and appearing as a fictional character in a Spider Robinson
> sci-fi novel.
>
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> ABSTRACT
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>
> While we have been mucking about with questions of tailoring
> interfaces for this or that group and making ever more exotic
> hardware and software widgets, the ugly fact remains that almost
> every computer-human interface is fundamentally flawed. We are
> trying to repair cracks in the foundation by painting over them.
> It is time to do things right from the ground up.
>
> Jef Raskin will present set of exercises and discussions that
> will expose some of these flaws, and the directions we must take
> to fix them.
>
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> PROGRAM
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>
> 8:30  - REGISTRATION & LIGHT BREAKFAST
>
> 9:00  - SESSION I
>         * Opening Exercise: Improve some simple interface widgets
>         * Participants receive a copy of "The Humane Interface"
>         * Discussion of group's solutions, presentation of
>           problems presented by conventional solutions
>         * Locus of attention and habit formation
>
> 10:30 - BREAK
>
> 10:45 - SESSION II
>         * Some common myths of interface design
>         * Modes and Monotony
>         * Exercises in modeless and monotonous solutions
>         * Discussion of exercise results
>
> 12:15 - LUNCH
>
> 1:30  - SESSION III
>         * Further discussion of exercise results and presentation
>           of some uncommon techniques for avoiding common problems
>
> 2:30  - SESSION IV
>         * Quantitative methods: GOMS, Hick's and Fitts's laws
>           (briefly) and measures of interface efficiency
>         * Exercise in evaluating interface designs with the GOMS
>           keystroke-level model and the application of
>           keystroke-level measures of interface efficiency
>
> 3:30  - BREAK
>
> 3:45  - EVALUATION & DISCUSSION OF PARTICIPANT EXERCISES
>
> 4:45  - SUMMARY
>
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> ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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>
> Location: University of Toronto Faculty Club
>           41 Willcocks St. - Main Dining Room
>           Toronto, Ontario
>
> Cost: CITO/ToRCHI members - $175
>       Non-members - $275
>       Students - $175
>
> To learn more or register online, visit:
> http://www.cito.ca/events/events/innomay142001.shtml
>

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Jennifer Cypher
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York University
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