%SECTION Academic Unit %Institution Queen Mary and Westfield College, Univ. of London %Unit Computer Science Dept. %Shortname Univ. of London, CMW, Dept. of Computer Science %Keyname QMW %Country United Kingdom, England, London %Address Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK %Phone +44(0)71-975-5238 %Fax +44(0)81-980-6533 %Email hilaryj@dcs.qmw.ac.uk %Contact Hilary Johnson %Updated 1994-06-01 %Degrees PhD, MSc %HCI_MS_Theses 70 %HCI_PhD_Theses 13 %HCI_MS_Current 16 %HCI_PhD_Current 15 %Description QMW has four internationally recognised research areas, in HCI, AI, Advanced Computing Environments, theory and functional programming. %Facilities The facilities include banks of suns and Macintosh computers, about 100, networked, there are good virtual reality, graphics, multimedia and CSCW support facilities - both hardware and software. The machines are housed in a multipurpose student building. %SECTION HCI Program %Contact Hilary Johnson %Title Lecturer in HCI %Address Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK %Phone +44(0)71-975-5238 %Fax +44(0)81-980-6533 %Email hilaryj@dcs.qmw.ac.uk %Program We are a centre for excellence in the UK for HCI and started the first HCI undergraduate and MSc courses in the UK. The courses offered are part of the HCI stream Advanced MSc courses. Students choose four from a selection of courses in user modelling, interactive system design, virtual environments and multimedia, natural language, OOPS, User Interface Management systems, some of which do not run in all years. The courses offered in 1994/1995 are user modelling, interactive system design, virtual environments and multimedia and natural language. %Other_Contacts + %SECTION HCI Courses %Title User Modelling %Instructor Hilary Johnson %Frequency Annual %Times_Taught 2 %Enrollment 16 %Format Seminars, lectures and exercises %Text + * Johnson, P Human Computer interaction: Psychology, Task analysis, and software engineering. - Journal articles %Description The course covers the theoretical and practical issues relating to the role of user models in interface design, whether user/task models for identifying requirements, supporting system design and guiding evaluation to embedded user models related to tailoring output to individual computer users. Assessment is by coursework and examination. %SECTION HCI Courses %Title Interactive System design %Instructor Prof George Coulouris/Prof Peter Johnson %Frequency Annual %Times_Taught 4 %Enrollment 16 %Format Seminars + design exercises + labs + team projects %Tools Hypercard %Text + - mainly journal articles %Description The primary aim is to enable students to become familiar with the kinds of problem to be solved in interactive system design. The emphasis is on teaching students how to build user-centred interactive applications, based mainly around seminars looking at the design, evaluation and evolution of designs. A significant proportion of the course is conducting mini-projects to give the students hands-on experience of building interactive applications. The objectives of ISD are to provide students with experience in the design of interactive user interfaces; to provide a conceptual and practical understanding of methods for the analysis, development and assessment of user interfaces; to enable students to apply these methods to real design projects and to provide students with the appropriate background knowledge for identifying their own requirements for UI design methods and development tools. Assessment is by coursework only. %SECTION HCI Courses %Title Virtual environments and multimedia %Instructor Mel slater/Sylvia wilbur %Frequency Annual %Times_Taught first year 1994 %Enrollment 16 %Format Seminars + exercises %Tools Use of VR and mm equipment %Text + - mainly journal articles %Description The Multimedia course addresses the impact of multimedia on HCI and computer systems design. The course covers the representation, storage, and transmission of audio, video, still image, graphics, and test within a single digital environment, but the main focus is on the empowerment of users and new applications enabled by these facilities. The fundamentals of multimedia technology and networking requirements are covered. %SECTION HCI Courses %Title Natural Language Interfaces and Systems %Instructor Stephen Sommerville %Frequency Annual %Times_Taught 2 %Enrollment 15 %Format Seminars, laboratories, case studies and team project %Text + - notes * Gazdar, G. & Mellish, C. Natural Language Processing in PROLOG - Journal articles. %Tools Prolog and Alvey NL Tools, in-house software support for laboratory exemplars %Description The course introduces sufficient background in linguistics and cognition to characterise the kinds of knowledge and range of skills exhibited in using and understanding natural language. It poses the question whether interactive interfaces can put this theoretical background to use, not only in engineering natural language interfaces, but in informing the design and engineering of all forms of interactive interface. It uses case studies of actual NL applications and small-scale laboratory-based examples of interactive interfaces, specialising in the semantics and discourse-analytic features of dialogue interaction. %SECTION HCI Faculty %Name Hilary Johnson %Title Lecturer in HCI %Degree BSc Psychology & Statistics, PhD (1983) Cognitive Psychology %Phone +44(0)71-975-5238 %Email hilaryj@dcs.qmw.ac.uk %Interests + * Task analysis and modelling * Requirements * Evaluation * Explanation Facilities * Intelligent interfaces * Multimedia user interfaces %Publications + * Johnson, H. & Johnson, P. (1989) Integrating task analysis into system design: Surveying designers' needs. Ergonomics, Vol 32, no 11, pp1451-1467. * Johnson, H & Johnson, P. (1993) Explanation facilities and interactive systems. In Gray, W., Hefley, W,. & Murray, D. Proceedings of the 1993 International Workshop on Intelligent User Interfaces. New York, ACM, pp 159-166. VIII, Cambridge University Press, pp267-276. * Johnson, H. (1994) The relationship between user models in HCI and AI. IEE Computers and Digital Techniques, volume 141, no. 2, p99-104. %SECTION HCI Faculty %Name Peter Johnson %Title Professor in HCI %Degree Ph.D., 1982, Cognitive Psychology, Warwick University %Phone +44(0)71-975-5224 %Email pete@dcs.qmw.ac.uk %Interests + * Developing methods and tools to support the design and evaluation of user interfaces * investigating principles for user interface design * investigations in advanced forms of interaction (eg multimedia interaction) %Publications + * Johnson, P., Johnson, H., Waddington, R. & Shouls A. (1988) Task-Related Knowledge Structures: Analysis, modelling and application. In Jones D., & Winder R. (eds.) People and Computers IV (HCI 88) Cambridge University Press. p 35-62. * Johnson, P. (1992) Human Computer Interaction: psychology, task analysis and software engineering. McGraw-Hill, Maidenhead. * Johnson, P. Wilson, S. Markopoulos, P. (1993). The ADEPT Toolset. In proceedings of Interchi93, ACM press, Amsterdam, April 1993. %SECTION HCI Faculty %Name George Coulouris %Title Professor of Computer Systems %Degree BSc %Phone +44(0)71-975-5201 %Email george@dcs.qmw.ac.uk %Interests + * Interactive system design methodologies * object-oriented user interface toolkits * security in distributed systems * security and protection of information in computer-supported cooperative work * system support for multimedia applications %Publications + * I. H. Witten, H. W. Thimbleby, G. F. Coulouris, S. Greenberg, Liveware: A New Approach to Sharing Data in Social Networks, International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, volume 34, number 3, pp337-348, 1991. * G. Coulouris, P. Johnson, H. Buxton and J. Dollimore, Teaching Application Design, Proc. ACM/SIGCHI Workshop on HCI, St. Petersburg, Russia, August 1992 * G. Coulouris and H. W. Thimbleby, HyperProgramming, Addison-Wesley, Wokingham, 1992, ISBN 0-201-56886-1, 400 pages. %SECTION HCI Faculty %Name Sylvia Wilbur %Title Senior lecturer %Degree BA (Open), MSc (Kent) %Phone +44(0)71-975-5202 %Email sylvia@dcs.qmw.ac.uk %Interests + * Computer-supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) including cooperation in virtual environments * Multimedia communications * Analysis of video-mediated communication * CSCW support for Concurrent Engineering %Publications + * Wilbur S., Multimedia Conferencing: Current Trends and Future Prospects, in Groupware in the 21st Century, Adamantine Press, March 1994.. * O'Conaill B, Whittaker S, and Wilbur S., Conversations over Video-conferences: An Evaluation of Video-Mediated Communication,, Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 8 No. 13, pp 389-429. 1993. appeared March 1994. * Wilbur S and Ing S, Interaction Management in Office-based Multimedia Collaboration, Proc. Telepresence 93, 3rd European Congress, organised by C.C.I.L.R.T., AFCET and others, Lille, France, March 1993, pp. 1-10. %SECTION HCI Faculty %Name Mel Slater %Title Reader %Degree BSc Econ (Essex); MA; MSc %Phone +44(0)71-975-5242 %Email mel@dcs.qmw.ac.uk %Interests + * Interactive computer graphics * immersive virtual environments %Publications + * Slater, M. A. Steed and M. Usoh (1993) The Virtual Treadmill: A Naturalistic Metaphor for Navigation in Immersive Virtual Environments, Proceedings of the Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Reality, ed. by M. Goebel, Barcelona, September 1993. To be republished in a book by the Eurographics Association. * Slater, M. and M. Usoh (1994) Representations Systems, Perceptual Position and Presence in Immersive Virtual Environments, Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, MIT Press 2(3). * Slater, M., M. Usoh, A. Steed (1994) Depth of Presence in Virtual Environments, Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, MIT Press 2(4). %SECTION HCI Faculty %Name Stephen Sommerville %Title Lecturer in AI and HCI %Degree BA Philosophy (1970), M.Phil Philosophy (1974), PhD Logic (1979) %Phone 071-975-5229 %Email steves@dcs.qmw.ac.uk %Interests * * Dialogue Modelling * Natural Language Processing * Discourse Analysis * Hypertext Applications * Text to Hypertext Conversion * Computers and Writing (CAL systems) %Publications + * Steve Sommerville, Nor Aliah Moh'd Zahri, The Role of a Discourse Manager in a Natural Language Interface, 1994 Joint Conference of 8th ACLIC and 2nd Pacific Asia Conference on Formal & Computational Linguistics, Kyoto, Japan, August 10-11, 1994. * Steve Sommerville, Radka Dvorak, Using a Hypertext Textbook: an evaluation of reader-centred link structures, in Proceedings of 10th Computers and Writing Conference, May 20-23, 1994, Missouri, Columbia MO. * Steve Sommerville, Marios Pittas, Modelling hypertext document browser displays and predicting user behaviour: cognitive dimensions and ERMIA models, in Interdisciplinary Approaches to Systems Analysis and Design, Proceedings of 15th Interdisciplinary Workshop on "Informatics and Psychology", May 24 - 26, Schaerding, Austria, 1994.