Tutorial #8

Object-oriented Design from User Scenarios

Mary Beth Rosson, John M. Carroll, Virginia Tech

Sunday, April 14, full-day

Benefits

You will learn the fundamentals of object-oriented design, and will learn how to turn user requirements data, formulated as scenarios of user interaction, into an object-oriented user interface design.

Origins

This popular tutorial has been revised for CHI 96.

Features

fundamental concepts of the object-oriented paradigm
specifying user scenarios
creating object models of scenarios
analyzing object and task interactions
abstracting across sets of related scenarios
developing a class hierarchy
creating a user interface framework for implementing scenarios
hands-on experience with user scenarios, object models, and class hierarchies

Audience

Human-computer interaction professionals who need to contribute to object-oriented development projects. Experience with user requirements gathering is assumed. No background in object-oriented techniques is required.

Presentation

Lecture, demonstration, discussion and small-group exercises.

Instructors

Mary Beth Rosson is an associate professor and Jack Carroll is professor and department head of the Computer Science Department at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. They have developed tools and techniques to support the learning and use of object-oriented programming and design. They have given tutorials on minimalist instruction, on scenario-based design, and on using minimalism to teach object-oriented programming and design.