Interview: Methodological Limits to HCI (with a special look at HCI and older users)

Wednesday 16:30 - 18:00.

A Conversation with Wayne Gray and Bill Gaver

What do we really know about the relative benefit of the design and evaluation methods we use? What methods offer new opportunities? What opportunities exist for improving senior HCI? How do we find the methodological guidance we need?

WAYNE GRAY is Associate Professor of Psychology and Fellow of the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, at George Mason University. He is currently head of the Human Factors and Applied Cognitive Program. His notable work at NYNEX's Science & Technology Center included the development and application of CPM-GOMS to telephone operator workstations.

BILL GAVER is a Senior Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art in London. He has worked on media spaces, affordances, and virtual physics at Apple Computer, Rank Xerox EuroPARC, and the Delft University of Technology. Now he is focusing on "provocative awareness," the use of technology for aesthetic and cultural interventions.