Tutorial #25

Participatory GUI Design From Task Models

Tom Dayton, Joseph Kramer, Al McFarland, Monica Heidelberg, Bellcore

Monday, April 15, full-day

Benefits

You will learn techniques for turning user data into a task-object model, and for turning the task-object model into a graphical user interface (GUI) design. You will practice the techniques during hands-on exercises.

Origins

This is the first time this tutorial has been presented at CHI.

Features

task-object models for bridging the chasm between user data and GUI designs
turning user data into task-object models
usability testing of the task-object model
turning the task-object model into GUI objects
usability testing of the GUI objects
hands-on experience with task-object models and GUI objects

Audience

HCI professionals faced with the problem of turning user data into GUI designs. Background in at least one (but not all) of the following areas is recommended: participatory design, object-oriented design or analysis, and GUI design. This tutorial is not about object-oriented programming, but about task objects from the user's point of view.

Presentation

Lecture and hands-on exercises.

Instructors

The instructors work together in a Bellcore group that provides user-centered design methods, tools, and consultation to software development groups in Bellcore and in the industry at large. They have worked together for years in using, developing, and teaching methods for analysis, design, and evaluation of business work processes, user task flows, and object-oriented multi-platform GUIs that support people executing those task flows. Tom Dayton and Joseph Kramer are Senior Usability Engineers, Monica Heidelberg is a Usability Engineer, and Al McFarland is Director of the group.