%SECTION            Academic Unit
%Country            United Kingdom, England, Liverpool
%Shortname          Univ. of Liverpool, Computer Science
%Institution        University of Liverpool
%Unit               Department of Computer Science
%Unit_Center        
%Address            P.O. Box 147
Liverpool L69 3BX
UNITED KINGDOM
%Phone              +44 (0)51 794 6923
%Fax                +44 (0)51 794 3715
%Email              
%Contact            
%Updated            1993-04-01
%Degrees            B.Sc., M.Sc. in Software Engineering;
M.Sc. in Information Systems; Ph.D.
%HCI_MS_Theses      0
%HCI_PhD_Theses     1
%HCI_MS_Current     0
%HCI_PhD_Current    1
%Description The Dept. of Computer Science at The University of
Liverpool has strengths in many areas of computer science and
staff research interests in: HCI, CSCW, hypertext and document
systems, KBS and AI, software engineering, and microcomputer
architectures. The two B.Sc. programs (G500 Computer Science and
G520 Information Systems -- G520 is for students with a weaker
Maths. background than G500) provide two years of solid,
introductory computer science and then an explosion of options in
the third year. HCI is a third year option, although closely
related to the second year course in software engineering.  The
same HCI option is offered to M.Sc. students.  Ph.D.s are by
personal supervision.  One year research M.Sc.s are available
with optional conversion to a Ph.D.
%Facilities The department is a Hewlett Packard preferred site
and all students use HP workstations for virtually all their
work.  The department possesses more than 200 workstations, many
in colour, and transparently networked. Some video equipment is
available and the University has professional level studios.

%SECTION            HCI Program
%Contact            Dan Diaper
%Title              Lecturer
%Address            Department of Computer Science
University of Liverpool
P.O. Box 147
Liverpool L69 3BX
UNITED KINGDOM
%Phone              +44 (0)51 794 3681
%FAX                +44 (0)51 794 3715
%Email              diaper@csc.liv.ac.uk
%Program Dan Diaper is responsible for all HCI teaching and
research in the department, although he does collaborate with
other staff members. Contact Dan Diaper in the first instance.
%Other_Contacts +
 * Prof. Roy Rada, CSCW and hypertext
 * Dr. Martin Beer, Large document systems, software engineering
 * Prof. Michael Shave, KBS
 * Dr. Trevor Bench-Capon, KBS, AI and hypertext
 * Dr. Paul Dunne, Theoretical computer science, hypertext
 * Dr. Bernard Diaz, Graphics
 * Dr. Martin Woodward, software engineering

%SECTION            HCI Faculty
%Name               Dan Diaper
%Title              Lecturer
%Degree             Dr.
%Phone              +44 (0)51 794 3681
%Email              diaper@csc.liv.ac.uk
%Interests +
 * HCI theory and philosophy
 * task analysis
 * software engineering
 * natural language processing
 * expert systems and KBS
 * knowledge elicitation
 * intelligent and adaptive interfaces
 * user interface design
 * simulation
 * CSCW
 * large document systems
 * HCI software tools
%Publications +
 * Diaper, D. (Ed) (1989) ``Task Analysis for Human-Computer
   Interaction.'' Ellis Horwood.
 * Diaper, D. (1989) ``The Wizard's Apprentice: A Program to Help
   Analyse Natural Language Dialogues.'' in ``People and
   Computers V.'' (Eds. Sutcliffe, A. and Macaulay, L.), 231-244.
   Cambridge University Press.
 * Diaper, D. (1989) ``Designing Expert Systems: From Dan to
   Beersheba.'' in ``Knowledge Elicitation:  Principles,
   Techniques and Applications.'' (Ed. Diaper, D), 15-46. Ellis
   Horwood.
 * Dan Diaper is General Editor of the journal ``Interacting with
   Computers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Human-Computer
   Interaction'' and he Co-edits the new Springer-Verlag book
   series on CSCW.

%SECTION            HCI Courses
%Title              Human-Computer Interaction
%Number             1cs82
%Instructor         Dan Diaper
%Frequency          
%Times_Taught       1
%Enrollment         15
%Format             15 lectures + essay
%Tools              LUTAKD task analysis toolkit
%Text +
 - Many
%Description This B.Sc. year three option presents an engineering
orientated view of HCI and uses many real world examples.  After
its introductory lectures it places practical HCI in the context
of ethics before covering issues of system and interface design.
Also covered are methods of eliciting knowledge from people
(including, of course, a system's direct end users or operators).

%SECTION            HCI Courses
%Title              Human Aspects of Information Systems (Pt I.)
%Number             SE104
%Instructor         Dan Diaper
%Frequency          
%Times_Taught       1
%Enrollment         15
%Format             15 lectures + essay + examination
%Tools              LUTAKD task analysis toolkit
%Text +
 - Many
%Description This M.Sc. option presents an engineering orientated
view of HCI and uses many real world examples.  After its
introductory lectures it places practical HCI in the context of
ethics before covering issues of system and interface design. 
Also covered are methods of eliciting knowledge from people
(including, of course, a system's direct end users or operators).

%SECTION            HCI Courses
%Title              Human Aspects of Information Systems (Pt II.)
%Number             SE104
%Instructor         Roy Rada
%Frequency          
%Times_Taught       1
%Enrollment         15
%Format             lectures + practicals + examination
%Tools              MUCH hypertext document reuse system
%Text +
 - Many
%Description This M.Sc. course provides via practical work an
introduction to the human aspects of information systems.  MUCH
is a large hypertext system with an AI engine that partially
automates semantic net traversal.  As a research tool it is used
to illustrate how sophisticated software is developed and used.