%SECTION            Academic Unit 
%Institution        Moscow State University  
%Unit               Department of Psychology
%Center             Chair of Psychology and Knowledge Engineering
%Shortname          Moscow State Univ., Psychology
%Country            Russia, Moscow
%Address            8 korp. 5, Mokhovaja str., 103009 Moscow RUSSIA
%Phone              (095) 203-36-07
%Fax                
%Email              shmel@ht.cogsci.msu.su
%Contact            Victor Kaptelinin
%Updated            1993-04-01
%Degrees            MS, Ph.D. in Psychology
%HCI_MS_Theses      1
%HCI_PhD_Theses     0
%HCI_MS_Current     2
%HCI_PhD_Current    0
%Description The Department of Psychology, Moscow State
University, is the  leading psychological center in Russia. 
Students specialize in  various domains, including general
psychology, industrial  psychology, social psychology,
educational psychology, psychology  and knowledge engineering.
%Facilities The Department of Psychology has a number of PCs. The
Chair of Psychology and Knowledge Engineering has a PS/2. The
instructor in HCI use his PowerBook 100 Macintosh computer.

%SECTION            HCI Program 
%Contact            Victor Kaptelinin
%Title              Assistant Professor (half time)
%Address            Psychological Institute
Russian Academy of Education 
9 "V" Mokhovaja str., 103009 Moscow
RUSSIA
%Phone              (095) 157-69-53
%FAX                
%Email              VKAPTELI@WEBER.UCSD.EDU
%Program 
%Other_Contacts 

%SECTION            HCI Faculty
%Name               Victor Kaptelinin
%Title              Assistant Professor
%Degree             Ph.D., 1984 Moscow State University, Psychology
%Phone              (095) 157-69-53
%Email              VKAPTELI@WEBER.UCSD.EDU
%Interests +
 * Mental models
 * Skill automatization
 * Contextualized analysis of computer use
%Publications +
 * V. Kaptelinin. "Psychological problems of the user interface 
   design." Psikhologicheski Joornal, 1992, #5 (in Russian)
 * V. Kaptelinin. "Can mental models be considered harmful?" CHI
   92,  Short Talks and Posters. Monterey, CA, 1992.
 * V. Kaptelinin. "Human computer interaction in context: the
   activity  theory perspective" Proceedings of the East West
   Conference on  Human Computer Interaction. St. Petersburg,
   Russia, 1992.

%SECTION            HCI Courses
%Title              Introduction to Cognitive Ergonomics
%Number             
%Instructor         Victor Kaptelinin
%Frequency          
%Times_Taught       2
%Enrollment         5
%Format             lectures and some exercises
%Tools              PowerBook 100, HyperCard
%Text +
 * Shneiderman, B. Designing the User Interface. 1987
 - various papers
%Description Dialogue styles, cognitive studies of human computer
interaction,  mental models, behavioral methods in user interface
evaluation,  skill development.