Tutorials

Tutorials are short courses that provide participants with an opportunity to develop new skills and knowledge through extended interaction with expert instructors. The 29 tutorials available at CHI '95 represent the leading edge of current practice and research advances that are the future of human-computer interaction. Both full- and half-day tutorials will be offered on May 7 and 8. Again this year, an introductory tutorial (Introduction and Overview of Human-Computer Interaction) will be offered Saturday evening, May 6. It is designed for newcomers as well as experienced CHI conference participants wishing to review basic HCI concepts.

Tutorial offerings this year include expanded tutorial notes, updating of all returning tutorials, movement away from lecture style to user-interaction tutorials, and use of multimedia to demonstrate objectives. Further, descriptions were modified to provide the educational objectives of each tutorial, and particular care was taken in matching the suggested audience with the tutorial content. More full-day than half-day tutorials are also being offered to allow more in-depth study of individual topics.

Tutorials are for the entire day unless otherwise noted.

Recommended Groupings

Saturday

• 1) Introduction and Overview of Human-Computer Interaction (evening)

Sunday

• 2) Interactive Learning Environments: Where They've Come From and Where They're Going (afternoon only)
• 3) Methods of Cognitive Analysis for HCI
• 4) Enabling Technology for Users with Special Needs
• 5) Cognitive Factors in Design: Basic Phenomena in Human Memory and Problem Solving
• 6) Groupware and Workflow: A Survey of Systems and Behavioral Issues
• 7) Managing the Design of the User Interface
• 8) Contextual Inquiry: Grounding Your Design in Users' Work
• 9) Introduction to Object-Oriented Design: A Minimalist Approach
• 10) Global Interface Design
• 11) An Introduction to the Internet and the World Wide Web
• 12) Tools and Trade-Offs: Making Wise Choices for User-Centered Design
• 13) Practical Usability Evaluation
• 14) Converting to Graphical User Interfaces: Design Guidelines for Success
• 15) Metaphor Design In User Interfaces

Monday

• 16) Teaching User Interface Development to Software Engineers (morning only)
• 17) Usability Inspection Methods (afternoon only)
• 18) Designing Educational Computer Environments for Children
• 19) Designing Icons and Visual Symbols
• 20) Designing Hypertext Documents for Mosaic
• 21) Diversity & Depth in Participatory Design: Working in the Software Development Lifecycle
• 22) Usability Evaluation with the Cognitive Walkthrough
• 23) An Introduction to MS Windows Software Development
• 24) Contextual Design: Using Customer Work Models to Drive System Design
• 25) GOMS Analysis for Parallel Activities
• 26) Designing for Complex Products
• 27) Models, Prototypes, and Evaluations for HCI Design: Making the Structured Approach Practical
• 28) Intuitive Statistics for HCI Professionals: Developing Understanding and Avoiding Errors
• 29) Interface Issues and Interaction Strategies for Information Retrieval Systems