%SECTION            Academic Unit 
%Institution        University at Darmstadt (Technische Hochschule Darmstadt)
%Unit               Computer Science (Informatik), FG PU
%Center             Programmiersprachen und Uebersetzer
%Shortname          Darmstadt Univ., Computer Science (Informatik)
%Country            Germany, Darmstadt
%Address            Alexanderstr. 10
D-64283 Darmstadt
GERMANY
%Phone              +49+6151+163410
%Fax                +49+6151+166648
%Email              hoffmann@pu.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de
%Contact            Dekanat, FB Informatik
%Updated            1994-03-01
%Degrees            Diplominformatiker (Dipl.-Inform.), Dr.-Ing., Dr. rer. nat.
%HCI_MS_Theses      25
%HCI_MS_Note        (diploma degrees comparable to M.Sc.)
%HCI_PhD_Theses     2
%HCI_PhD_Note       (Dr.-Ing.-degree comparable to Ph.D.)
%HCI_MS_Current     4
%HCI_PhD_Current    3
%Description The Unit/Center, working since 1971, has the mission
in academic teaching and research on Programming Languages and
Compilers in general. Since many years interactive access to
computers and support of such access by appropriate programming
systems and tools is emphasized.
%Facilities PCs, SUN- and HP-workstations, SYMBOLICS
Lisp-machines.

%SECTION            HCI Program 
%Contact            Hans-Juergen Hoffmann
%Title              (full) University Professor
%Address            Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
FB Informatik, FG PU
Alexanderstr. 10
D-64283 Darmstadt
GERMANY
%Phone              +49+6151+163410
%FAX                +49+6151+166648
%Email              hoffmann@pu.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de
%Program special, second level courses in HCI integrated with the
Computer Science Programme of the department
%Other_Contacts +
 * Jens Wandmacher, Inst. Psychology,
   wandmacher@bwl.bwl.tu-darmstadt.de

%SECTION            HCI Faculty
%Name               Hans-Juergen Hoffmann
%Title              (full) University Professor
%Degree             Dr.-Ing., 1963, EE; Dipl.-Ing., 1959, EE
%Phone              +49+6151+163410
%Email              hoffmann@pu.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de
%Interests +
 * programming languages
 * compilers
 * interactive programming systems
 * UIDS and UIMS
 * visual programming
 * icon construction
 * multi-media
 * object-oriented programming
 * software engineering methodology
%Publications +
 * I. Dilli, H.-J. Hoffmann, D. Koschorek, G. Vogt, "Experience
   with an object-oriented design approach for a programming
   environment under a blackboard architecture", Advances in
   Human Systems and Information Technology, G. E. Lasker,
   T.Koizumi, and J. Pohl, eds., The Intl. Institute for Advanced
   Studies in Systems Research & Cybernetics, 1992, 268 - 276. 
 * H.-J. Hoffmann, "Smalltalk, Stand & Perspektiven aus der Sicht
   eines Software-Ingenieurs", State of the Art,  issue 9,
   Oldenbourg-Verlag, 1991, 15 - 51.      
 * H.-J. Hoffmann, How to improve overall system quality by a
   sensible design of man-machine interaction -- views of a
   software engineer", Proc. ESREL'93, European Safety and
   Reliability Conference, P. Kafka and J. Wolf, eds.,
   VDI-Verlag, 1993, 939 - 947.

%SECTION            HCI Courses
%Title              Design of interactive programs
(Entwurf interaktionsfaehiger Programme)
%Number             n.a.
%Instructor         Hans-Juergen Hoffmann
%Frequency          twice a year with different topics
%Times_Taught       about 20
%Enrollment         10
%Format             Lecture + exercises
%Tools              differs depending on the topic
%Text +
 - differs, in most cases journal articles
%Description Topics covered in the course go from specification
techniques (state transition, specification languages, event
specification, rule-based, constraints, by demonstration ...),
data and program visualisation, program animation, design
guidelines, use of UIDS and UIMS, eventually to human factors
depending on the emphasis given.

%SECTION            HCI Courses
%Title              Design of interactive man-computer-interfaces   
(Entwurf interaktiver Mensch-Rechner-Schnittstellen)
%Number             n.a.
%Instructor         Hans-Juergen Hoffmann + Jens Wandmacher
%Frequency          annual
%Times_Taught       4
%Enrollment         25
%Format             seminar
%Tools              n.a.
%Text               +
 - readings of original literature
%Description It is an interdisciplinary seminar with emphasis on
actual topics in psychology related to HCI and on models,
architectures, and designs for HCI considered from the viewpoint
of computer science.