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Course 22: Advanced Research & Design for
Sustainability (09:30, Rm 13B, 2 units)
Instructors:
Daniela Busse, Samsung Research, USA
Eli Blevis, Indiana University
This course will provide an advanced treatment of the domain of
Sustainable HCI. Prior knowledge of the field is required, or
attendance of the related CHI course ‘Introduction to …
Sustainability’.
Course 23: Agile UX Toolkit (09:30, Rm 14, 2 units)
Instructors:
Desiree Sy, John Schrag, Autodesk Canada, Canada
Skills and tactics for experienced UX practitioners and managers
to successfully adapt user-centered design practices to integrate
into an agile team.
Course 24: Choice and Decision Making for HCI (09:30,
Rm 13A, 2 units)
Instructors:
Anthony Jameson, German Research Institute for Artificial
Intelligence (DFKI), Germany
Find out how users of your systems make choices and decisions -
and how you can help them make better ones.
Course 25: Designing What to Design: a Task-Focused
Conceptual Model (09:30, Rm 15, 2 units)
Instructors:
Jeff Johnson, UI Wizards
Designing a conceptual model is an important early step in
interaction design. Unfortunately, it is often skipped, resulting in
incoherent, overly-complex applications. This course explains how
to design conceptual models, and why.
Course 26: Interaction Design for Social Development
(09:30, Rm 11A, 2 units)
Instructors:
Gary Marsden, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Matt Jones, Swansea University, UK
The Interaction Design for Social Development is a course for
those conducting, or wishing to conduct, interaction design
research in the developing world.
Course 27: Card Sorting for Navigation Design (14:30, Rm
13A, 2 units)
Instructors:
William Hudson, Syntagm Ltd, UK
This half-day covers the theory and practice of card sorting. It
includes hands-on experience of performing and analysing a paperbased
card sort (online methods are also discussed).
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Course 28: Empirical Research Methods for Human-
Computer Interaction (14:30, Rm 14, 2 units)
Instructors:
Scott MacKenzie, Steven Castellucci, York University, Canada
This course delivers an A-to-Z tutorial on conducting an empirical
experiment (aka user study) in human-computer interaction.
Course 29: Hands-Free Interfaces: The Myths,
Challenges, and Opportunities of Speech-Based
Interaction (14:30, Rm 15, 1 unit)
Instructors:
Cosmin Munteanu, National Research Council Canada, Canada
Gerald Penn, University of Toronto, Canada
Learn how speech recognition works, what are its limitations and
usability challenges, how it could be used to enhance interaction
paradigms, and what is the current research and commercial stateof-the-art.
Course 30: Multimodal Detection of Affective States: A
Roadmap from Brain-Computer Interfaces, Face-Based
Emotion Recognition, Eye Tracking and Other Sensors
(14:30, Rm 13B, 2 units)
Instructors:
Javier Gonzalez-Sanchez, Maria Elena Chavez-Echeagaray, Robert
Atkinson, Winslow Burleson, Robert Christopherson, Arizona
State University, USA
This course presents devices and explores methodologies for
multimodal detection of affective states, as well as a discussion
about presenter’s experiences using them both in learning and
gaming scenarios.
Course 31: Designing for ‘Cool’: Making Compelling
Products and Applications (16:30, Rm 15, 1 unit)
Instructors:
Karen Holtzblatt, InContext Design, USA
This course presents a set of core attributes that make products
and applications Cool, with illustrations from real products and
services. We also at the challenges organizations face in creating
Cool.
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Course 32: Agile User Experience and UCD (09:30, Rm 15,
2 units)
Instructors:
William Hudson, Syntagm Ltd, UK
This course shows how to integrate User-Centred Design with
Agile methods to create great user experiences. The course takes
an emotionally intelligent approach to engaging team members in
UCD.
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