Keith A. Butler Sessions

Tutorial: 1. Human-Computer Interaction: Introduction and Overview

Keith A. Butler, Boeing Information and Support Services, USA
Robert J.K. Jacob, Tufts University, USA
Bonnie E. John, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Benefits
If you are a newcomer to the CHI field, this tutorial will give you the background you need to get the most benefit out of the CHI conference.

Origins
This tutorial has evolved, based on feedback from the attendees, as we have given it each year at CHI since CHI 92.

Features

• what HCI is and why it is important
• brief history of HCI
• introduction to building usable systems
• introduction to the psychology of HCI
• introduction to computer technologies for HCI
• future directions of HCI
• where to learn more during the conference
• where to learn more in the published HCI literature

Audience
Professionals from computing-related fields who are new to the field of HCI or new to the CHI conference. No background in HCI is assumed.

Presentation
Primarily lecture style.

Instructors
Keith Butler is a senior principal scientist for user-centered design at Boeing Information and Support Services. Rob Jacob is on the faculty of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Tufts University, and is a member of the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction and former Vice Chair of SIGCHI. Bonnie John is on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department, Psychology Department, and Human-Computer Interaction Institute. Her research develops "engineering models" of computer users and applies them to the evaluation and design of computer systems.

Related Tutorials

• 9. Cognitive Factors in Design: Basic Phenomena in Human Memory and Problem Solving (Sunday)
• 19. Programmable User Modeling Analysis in Theory and in Practice (Monday)
• 25. The Usability Engineering Lifecycle (Monday)