Tutorials
Tutorials
Tutorials are full-day (9:00 am to 5:30 pm) or half-day (9:00 am to
12:30 pm and 2:00 pm to 5:30 pm) courses that enable you to learn new
skills and knowledge through extended interaction with expert
instructors. The 32 tutorials available at CHI 97 represent the
leading edge of current practice and research in human-computer
interaction. Not only do the tutorials provide you with a solid
grounding in where the field of HCI is today, but they also point the
way to where our field will be in the future. Tutorials are offered on
Saturday evening, Sunday and Monday.
Two Saturday Evening Tutorials
Chances are good that you will arrive in Atlanta on Saturday, since
many favorable airfares require a Saturday night stay. Spend Saturday
evening with Jakob Nielsen
(2 User Interface Design for the World Wide Web)
or with Keith Butler and Rob Jacob
(1 Human-Computer Interaction: Introduction and Overview).
Both tutorials run from 6:00-9:30 pm with
a food and beverage break. If you don't arrive until Monday, take
advantage of one of the three Monday afternoon tutorials.
Earn CEUs for CHI tutorials
This year again you can earn Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for
taking CHI tutorials. SIGCHI has been approved as an Authorized CEU
Sponsor by the International Association for Continuing Education and
Training (IACET). This approval is a recognition of the outstanding
professional training available through CHI tutorials. The CEU is a
recognized unit of measure for continuing education and professional
training programs. Each CEU requires the successful completion of 10
hours of instruction. Successful completion of a CHI tutorial requires
that you attend the entire session and participate fully in the
learning activities of the tutorial. If you wish, you can earn 0.6
CEUs for each full-day tutorial (6 hours of instruction), or 0.3 CEUs
for each half-day (3 hours). You can earn a maximum of 1.5 CEUs by
taking 2 1/2 days of instruction. To obtain CEU credit, you must
register for CEUs at the same time that you register for your
tutorials. There is a small administrative charge. IACET will send you
a confirmation letter, maintain a record of your CEUs and issue
transcripts upon your request.
New Tutorials at CHI 97
CHI 97 offers 20 tutorials that are 'new for 97'. These brand new
tutorials on exciting topics have never been offered at the CHI
conference before. In addition, CHI 97 offers 12 'classic' tutorials,
updated versions of highly-rated tutorials from previous CHI
conferences.
Tutorial Planner
Introductory
If you are new to the CHI conference or are just getting started in
the field of HCI, the Newcomers tutorials will give you a solid
background and prepare you to get the most from the rest of the
conference. Good tutorial choices for newcomers include:
1 Human-Computer Interaction: Introduction and Overview
(Saturday evening);
3 Cognitive Factors in Design: Basic Phenomena in Human Memory and Problem-Solving
(Sunday);
16 Practical Usability Evaluation
(Monday).
Designing for the World Wide Web
Want to know how to design and implement user interfaces for the World
Wide Web? These tutorials will get you started:
2 User Interface Design for the World Wide Web (Saturday evening);
4 Developing Collaborative Applications Using the World Wide Web 'Shell' (Sunday);
17 Designing Usable and Visually Appealing Web Sites (Monday).
Graphic and Visual Design
Tutorials showing you how to design great graphics and visuals are:
5 Designing Icons and Visual Symbols (Sunday);
13 Color and Type in Information Design (Sunday);
18 Metaphor Design in User Interfaces: How to Effectively Manage Expectation, Surprise, Comprehension and Delight (Monday);
27 Multimedia Visual Interface Design (Monday).
Also, see how graphics are used for powerful information display in:
30 Information Visualization (Monday PM).
Emerging Applications
User interfaces for emerging applications are presented in two
forward-looking tutorials:
6 MediaJazz: Digital Storytelling and Computer Game Design (Sunday);
19 Interacting and Designing in Virtual Worlds on the Internet (Monday).
New Ways of Interacting with Computers
Interacting with computers should be as easy as talking or interacting
with other people. Three tutorials that lead the way in interacting
with computers in a more natural way are:
7 Spoken Dialogue Interfaces (Sunday);
28 Social and Natural Interfaces: Theory and Design (Monday AM);
31 Creating Conversational Interfaces for Interactive Software Agents (Monday PM).
Software Agents
Software agents is an emerging technology. Learn what agents can do,
how to interact with agents, and how to implement agents using Java
with these tutorials:
8 Wizards, Coaches, Advisors and More: A Performance Support Primer
(Sunday);
29 Software Agents (Monday AM);
31 Creating Conversational Interfaces for Interactive Software Agents
(Monday PM);
32 Java-Based User Interface Development and Web Application Deployment (Monday PM).
Usability Engineering
Two classic tutorials on usability engineering are:
9 Product Usability: Survival Techniques (Sunday);
20 Practical Interface Design: Developing Software Within Real-World Constraints (Monday).
Management of HCI
Having trouble managing the user interface process or convincing your
managers that user interface design and evaluation is necessary? Then
enroll in:
10 Strategic Usability: Introducing Usability into Organizations
(Sunday);
21 Managing the Design of the User Interface (Monday).
Understanding Users
Understanding users is fundamental to designing great user
interfaces. We offer six tutorials on gathering requirements and
feedback from users:
11 Activity Theory: Basic Concepts and Applications (Sunday);
14 Getting Started on a Contextual Project (Sunday AM);
15 Design Ethnography: Using Custom Ethnographic Techniques To Develop
New Product Concepts (Sunday PM);
22 Interviewing Customers: Discovering What They Can't Tell You (Monday);
23 Structured Observation: Practical Methods for Understanding Users
and Their Work in Context (Monday);
24 Contextual Design: Using Customer Work Models to Drive Systems Design (Monday).
User Interface Design
Want to know about user interface design? Try these tutorials:
12 Designing User Interfaces from Analyses of Users' Work Tasks (Sunday);
25 Object, View and Interaction Design (Monday).
Drawing and Artistic Training
The speaker at last year's closing session, Betty Edwards, will be
back to present a tutorial on drawing and how artistic training can
improve user interfaces. This tutorial has limited enrollment, so sign
up early:
26 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Monday).
Whether you are new to the CHI conference or have been attending for
years, there are courses designed for you in the CHI 97 Tutorials
Program.
