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> By popular demand we have extended the deadline for you to benefit from
> the "early bird" discount for the British HCI Group's 6th HCI Educators
> Workshop at Napier University, Edinburgh 31st March & 1st April 2003. This
> is because many of the members of BHCIG will only now be receiving their
> copy of the Spring 2003 issue of Interfaces, which describes the workshop
> in detail.
>
> Thus, registrations made on or before Friday 14th March will be accepted
> at the discounted rate of £85, compared to the normal rate of £100. This
> replaces the earlier deadline of 10th March.
>
> Further details are available at http://www.hcie2003.org/ and the draft
> programme has now been made final, and includes the following (as well as
> panel discussions etc.):
>
> Keynote Presentations:
> Including Accessiblity within undergraduate computing courses (Lorna
> Gibson, David Sloan, Anna Dickinson and Alan Newell, all of Applied
> Computing, University of Dundee)
> Accessibility comes of age (Dr Alison Crerar, Napier University, Chair,
> Edinburgh Branch BCS, Organiser for Scotland of IT-CAN-HELP a network of
> IT professionals helping disabled people with technology)
> Graphic Design and Interface Design (Professor Brent MacGregor, Head,
> School of Visual Communication, Edinburgh School of Art )
> Exploring Interaction Design (Professor David Benyon, Chair HCI Research
> Group, Napier University)
> Education and Practice - Bridging the Divide (Dr Janet Finlay, Leeds
> Metropolitan Univ & Chair, Education and Practice Working Group, British
> HCI Group)
>
> Papers/Demonstrations:
> Experiential design and HCI education (Michael Smyth and Alison Varey)
> Measuring User Interface Usability: How different metrics differ (Thomas
> Acton)
> HCI Domain Boundaries (Russel Beale)
> Demonstration: EasyChart: exploiting an inverted design process to create
> an instructional artefact (Paul Englefield, Mark Farmer, Nik Mottershead,
> Mark Tibbits)
> Problem-Based Learning (Konrad Baumann)
> Student use of web resources in an HCI unit (Jonathan Crellin)
> HCI education and training: satisfying the stakeholders (Ann Light,
> Barbara McManus, Shailey Minocha, John Rosbottom)
> Accessibility and the HCI Curriculum: Improving Teaching and Learning for
> All (Tom McEwan, Sandra Cairncross, Aileen MacLean )
> Product design, graphic design and graphic arts (Konrad Baumann)
>
> Posters
> EasyChart: exploiting an inverted design process to create an
> instructional artefact (Paul Englefield, Mark Farmer, Nik Mottershead,
> Mark Tibbits (also a demonstration))
> A Case Study in the Teaching of HCI (Deryn Graham)
> Challenges in the Expanding World of Interaction (Russell Beale (also a
> paper))
> Evaluation of E-Commerce sites by Tracking Eye Movements (Ekaterini
> Tzanidou)
> Teaching HCI at Staffordshire (Clive Chandler)
>
> Tradition is maintained with a strong social programme on the evening
> between the two days, including organised whisky tasting and a meal at one
> of Edinburgh's best Scottish Restaurants. (The social programme costs an
> additional £45 and must be booked in advance)
>
> This is the sixth HCI Educators Workshop - which is organised every spring
> by the British HCI Group and serves as an opportunity to kindle the
> debates on HCI Education between the annuals conference each September.
> Last year it was in Portsmouth:
> http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/rosbottj/hciWS2002/
>
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