%SECTION            Academic Unit
%Country            United Kingdom, Scotland, Edinburgh
%Shortname          Heriot-Watt Univ., Computing and Electrical Engineering
%Institution        Heriot-Watt University
%Unit               Dept of Computing and Electrical Engineering
%Center             
%Address            Riccarton, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, SCOTLAND
%Phone              +44 31 451 3328
%Fax                +44 31 451 3431
%Email              cee.hw.ac.uk
%Contact            Hamish Taylor
%Updated            1994-03-01
%Degrees            MSc, MPhil, PhD
%HCI_MS_Theses      26
%HCI_PhD_Theses     5
%HCI_MS_Current     26
%HCI_PhD_Current    3
%Description The principal research areas in the CS section of
the department are multimedia systems, computer-based learning,
object-oriented databases, knowledge based systems, and computer
vision. All of these specialisms contribute to HCI courses and
research.
%Facilities Facilities include about 70 workstations and X
terminals (40 Sun, 20 HP and 11 DEC), 30 PCs and 10 Macintosh
systems with CD, video and audio capture capabilities.

%SECTION            HCI Program
%Contact            Alistair Kilgour
%Title              Professor
%Address            Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton,
Edinburgh EH14 4AS, Scotland, UK
%Phone              +44 31 451 3438
%FAX                +44 31 451 3431
%Email              ack@cee.hw.ac.uk
%Program HCI is one of the major specialisms in the CS section of
the department. The department also hosts the Scottish HCI
Centre, which focusses on HCI technology transfer and industrial
consultancy.
%Other_Contacts +
 * Patrik Holt, Director, Scottish HCI Centre (ph@cee.hw.ac.uk)
 * Terry Mayes, Research Director, Institute for Computer-Based
   Learning (terry@icbl.hw.ac.uk)
 * Rodger Harris (rodger@cee.hw.ac.uk)
 * Hamish Taylor, HCI admissions tutor (hamish@cee.hw.ac.uk)

%SECTION            HCI Faculty
%Name               Alistair Kilgour
%Title              Professor
%Degree             PhD Computer Science, University of Glasgow
%Phone              +44 31 451 3438
%Email              ack@cee.hw.ac.uk
%Interests +
 * configurable systems
 * CSCW (Computer-Supported Cooperative Work)
 * computer-based learning
%Publications +

%SECTION            HCI Faculty
%Name               Patrik O'Brien Holt
%Title              Senior Lecturer
%Degree             PhD Psychology, University of Nottingham
%Phone              +44 31 451 3414
%Email              ph@cee.hw.ac.uk
%Interests +
 * computer support for writing
 * multimedia information systems
 * knowledge elicitation
 * hypertext and hypermedia
%Publications +

%SECTION            HCI Course
%Title              Master of Science in HCI
%Number             25
%Instructor         A.C. Kilgour, P.O. Holt & others
%Frequency          annual
%Times_Taught       October - April (taught)
May - September (dissertation)
%Enrollment         25
%Format             8 taught modules + dissertation
%Tools              HyperCard, X-Designer, Tcl & TK
%Text +
 * Shneiderman
 * Johnson
 * Baecker & Buxton
%Description Taught modules cover the design and development of
interactive systems, including human factors, design
methodologies, empirical methods, multimedia technology, and
software tools, with application options including computer-
based learning, graphics, database systems and knowledge based
systems. The taught material is applied and developed in a 
major project written up as a dissertation.