%SECTION            Academic Unit
%Country            Canada, Nova Scotia, Halifax
%Shortname          Technical Univ. of Nova Scotia, Computer Science
%Institution        Technical University of Nova Scotia
%Unit               School of Computer Science
%Address            PO Box 1000
Halifax, N.S.
CANADA B3J 2X4
%Phone              (902) 420-7718
%Fax                (902) 492-1517
%Email              cs@tuns.ca
%Contact            Jonathan Barzilai
%Updated            1994-03-01
%Degrees            M.Comp.Sci., Ph.D. in Computer Science
%HCI_MS_Theses      1
%HCI_PhD_Theses     0
%HCI_MS_Current     3
%HCI_PhD_Current    1
%Description Visual programming, software engineering, user
interfaces, object oriented programming, database, graphics.
%Facilities Macintosh, PC, Sun, HP, Dec and Next computers.

%SECTION            HCI Program
%Contact            Trevor Smedley
%Title              Assistant Professor
%Address            School of Computer Science
Technical University of Nova Scotia
PO Box 1000
Halifax, NS  CANADA  B3J 2X4
%Phone              (902) 420-7838
%FAX                (902) 492-1517
%Email              smedley@tuns.ca
%Program The faculty involved in HCI tend towards the practical
aspects -- tools, techniques, etc. -- as opposed to the
theoretical aspects.
%Other_Contacts +
 * Philip Cox
 * Tom Pietrzkowski

%SECTION            HCI Faculty
%Name               Trevor Smedley
%Title              Assistant Professor
%Degree             Ph.D. (Waterloo); M.Math; B.Math
%Phone              (902) 420-7838
%Email              smedley@tuns.ca
%Interests +
 * Visual programming
 * user interfaces
 * object oriented programming
 * symbolic computation

%SECTION            HCI Courses
%Title              User Interface Design
%Number             CS4029
%Instructor         Trevor Smedley
%Frequency          Annually
%Times_Taught       3
%Enrollment         25
%Format             Design and implementation assignments, and final
project
%Tools              Prograph, C++, MotifApp
%Text +
 * Young, D. A. Object-Oriented Programming with C++ and OSF/Motif
 * Norman, D. A. The Design of Everyday Things
%Description This course is an introduction to user interface design,
evaluation and development.  It will stress the importance of good
interfaces, and the relationship of user interface design to human-computer
interaction. Programming assignments will be done on Macintosh computers
using Prograph, and using OSF/Motif under Unix.

%SECTION            HCI Courses
%Title              Visual Programming
%Number             CS6087
%Instructor         Trevor Smedley
%Frequency          Annually
%Times_Taught       1
%Enrollment         11
%Description This course deals with topics relating to the use of visuality
in programming.  This will include topics such as visual programming
languages, program visualisation and data visualisation, as well as
discussion of graphical programming aids, including graphical tools for
defining user interfaces.