%SECTION Academic Unit %Country Australia, Canberra %Shortname Univ. of Canberra, Information Sciences & Engineering %Institution University of Canberra %Unit Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering %Address Executive Officer, Faculty of Info. Sci. and Eng. University of Canberra PO Box 1, Belconnen, ACT 2616, Australia %Phone +61 6 201 5166 %Fax +61 6 201 5231 %Email pac@ise.canberra.edu.au %Contact Andrew Linacre %Updated 1994-04-01 %Degrees Graduate Diploma in Information Systems; Grad. Dip. in Computing Studies, MS, Ph.D., Masters of Information Technology (by coursework) %HCI_MS_Theses 0 %HCI_PhD_Theses 0 %HCI_MS_Current 0 %HCI_PhD_Current 1 %Description The Faculty has a professional and applied focus and has expertise in HCI, in relation to socio-technical systems design, user interface design, hypertext, VR and CSCW; also graphics and user interface management systems. We offer graduate diplomas (above) to students with a first degree in another discipline. We have recently started to offer Ph.D and masters work. In our graduate diplomas students take just one unit in HCI (out of 8). There is also an honours year (post-graduate) and a unit in HCI is also offered there. Our Masters by Coursework offers a specialisation in HCI and starts in March, 1995. %Facilities About 200 X 486 (PCs), Suns, no MACs; fully equipped usability testing lab and behavioural simulation suite; design room. %SECTION HCI Program %Contact Penny Collings %Title Head of Information Systems Group %Address Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering University of Canberra PO Box 1, Belconnen, ACT 2616, Australia %Phone +61 6 201 2423 %FAX +61 6 201 5231 %Email pac@ise.canberra.edu.au %Program HCI is one area of specialisation in the faculty, others include database, graphics, software engineering, knowledge-based systems, information systems design. %Other_Contacts + %SECTION HCI Faculty %Name Penny Collings %Title Head of Information Systems Group %Degree M.Ed.; BA (hons) %Phone +61 6 201 2423 %Email pac@ise.canberra.edu.au %Interests + * HCI * socio-technical systems design, CSCW %Publications + * Collings, P.A. (1990) Usability testing - a focal point for design and research in the field of human-computer interaction, Proceedings, CHISIG Conference (OZCHI '91), Melbourne, Australia * Collings, P.A. and Walker, D.W. (1991) Usability is the goal, Proceedings, Australian Computer Conference, Adelaide, Australia * Collings, P.A. and Mackay, J. (1992) How to evaluate prototyping tools, Proceedings, CHISIG Conference (OZCHI '92), Bond University, Australia * Collings, P.A. et al (1994) A comparison of methods for teaching information systems design, Proceedings, CHI'94 (short paper) %SECTION HCI Faculty %Name Jan Newmarch %Title Senior Lecturer %Degree Ph.D. %Phone +61 6 2012422 %Email %Interests + * UIMS * multimedia * HCI %Publications + * several books, list not available at present %SECTION HCI Faculty %Name Terry Webb %Title Lecturer %Degree Ph.D. %Phone +61 6 2015341 %Email %Interests + * Virtual Reality * multimedia, hypertext * HCI %Publications + * articles in the VR field, list not available at present %SECTION HCI Courses %Title Systems Analysis G2 %Number 0556 %Instructor Penny Collings %Frequency once per year, starting August, runs of one semester %Times_Taught 10 %Enrollment approx. 80 %Format lectures, exercises, behavioural simulation %Tools ObjectScript, organisational simulation (for socio-tech. sys. design) %Text + * Cox and Walker, User-Interface Design * Norman, The Design of Everyday things %Description The course addresses issues of user interface design and socio-technical design and has extensive role-playing of users. %SECTION HCI Courses %Title Advanced Topics in Computing (honours unit - HCI and multimedia) %Number 3365 %Instructor Penny Collings, Jan Newmarch %Frequency once a year %Times_Taught 2 %Enrollment 8 %Format a series of seminars with exercises in design and %Tools multimedia PC with software; and usability labs %Text + - specialised readings from ACM HCI curriculum; it varies interface evaluation + research topics. %Description The course aims to explore fundamental topics in HCI and multimedia and reflects the current interests of students and staff. %SECTION HCI Courses %Title Issues in the design of human-computer interfaces M %Number new in 1996 %Instructor Terry Webb, Jan Newmarch %Frequency once per year, runs for one semester %Times_Taught new in 1996, as part of Masters by Coursework %Enrollment approx. 10 expected %Format lectures, exercises, 1-2 day workshops %Tools simple VR experiments, current HCI design tools %Text + * to be decided %Description This unit will provide an awareness of the issues which underlie emerging interface technologies. It will examine the design and usage of hypertext, multimedia and data visualisation (desktop virtual reality). %SECTION HCI Courses %Title Usability testing and the information systems design process M %Number new in 1995 %Instructor Penny Collings, Terry Webb %Frequency once per year, runs for one semester %Times_Taught trial version, 3 times %Enrollment approx. 10 expected %Format lectures, exercises, 2 day design and testing workshop %Tools use of usability lab to perform usability tests %Text + * Neilsen, Usability Engineering * Cox and Walker, User-Interface Design * Norman, The Design of Everyday things %Description This unit provides a context - socio-technical systems design - for considering the process of information systems design and the opportunity to evaluate human-computer interfaces as part of this process. Evaluation procedures will be systematically employed to ensure a high degree of usability in the user interface for computer-based systems. %SECTION HCI Courses %Title Human factors in information technology M %Number new in 1995 %Instructor Terry Webb %Frequency once per year, runs for one semester %Times_Taught new in 1995 %Enrollment approx. 6 expected %Format lectures, exercises, workshops %Tools TBA %Text + * TBA %Description This unit will provide the rationale for decision making in the design of IT systems. The framework provided will be one that centres on a basic corpus of knowledge of human cognition and physical attributes and the application of these to human-computer interface design.