%SECTION Academic Unit %Country United Kingdom, England, London %Shortname University College London, Ergonomics %Institution University College London %Unit Ergonomics Unit %Address 26, Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AP, UK %Phone +44 (0)71 631 0889 %Fax +44 (0)71 580 1100 %Email j.stubbings@ucl.ac.uk %Contact Jenny Stubbings (Unit Secretary) %Updated 1994-04-01 %Degrees Human Factors in HCI: PhD, MS, Postgraduate Diploma %HCI_MS_Theses 49 %HCI_PhD_Theses 7 %HCI_MS_Current 23 %HCI_PhD_Current 10 %Description The Ergonomics Unit is UCL's centre for the development, study and practice of ergonomics (human factors engineering), and it is based in the Department of Psychology. Ergonomics is concerned with the human aspects of technology at work, seeking to ensure that technology meets the needs of people that use it. The University of London Intercollegiate Masters course in Ergonomics is run from the Unit, although components of the course are contributed by specialists in the various background disciplines based at a number of colleges within the University. Students can specialise either in General Ergonomics or in the Human Factors of Human Computer Interaction. The Research Group based at the Ergonomics Unit specialises in Human-Computer Interaction. %Facilities Local facilities - * General human factors testing laboratory facilities (video and audio) * locally networked Apple Macintosh LC * cluster of IBM PS2 workstations and an IBM RS6000. As well as offering a local network supporting word-processing and statistical analysis facilities, the cluster is linked to a college-wide, fibre-based, high bandwidth backbone network, providing access to external data networks, including UK and international electronic mail facilities via the Internet. Facilities of the Department of Computer Science, UCL (subject to availability): * 65 workstations (SUN, Hewlett Packard workstations, DECStations 3100) * access to wide-area video conferencing and data networks, %SECTION HCI Program %Contact Professor J.B. Long %Title Director %Address Ergonomics Unit, UCL, 26, Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AP, UK %Phone +44 (0)71 380 7557 %FAX +44 (0)71 580 1100 %Email j.long@ucl.ac.uk %Program The Ergonomics Unit Research Group specialises in Human-Computer Interaction. The group wishes to enhance the process and product of software development by: (i) increasing the guarantee associated with human factors (HF) knowledge; and, (ii) developing an appropriate set of HF methods and tools, with emphasis on the early stages of system design. The group conducts basic and pre-competitive work, frequently in collaboration with public bodies and industrial organisations from the U.K. and Europe, and it has particularly close links with the Department of Computer Science at UCL. It has a special interest in planning and control, and safety critical applications, such as transport, health care and the military. %Other_Contacts + %SECTION HCI Faculty %Name John B. Long %Title Director of Studies %Degree PhD (Cognitive Psychology) Cambridge University 1974; BSc Psychology, Hull University 1970; BA Modern Languages, Cambridge University 1959 %Phone +44 (0)71 380 7557 %Email j.long@ucl.ac.uk %Interests + * Theory in HCI * HCI methods for system development * Planning and Control %Publications + * Long, J.B. (1991) HCI Theory on Trial: Engineering Design Principles as HCI Discipline Knowledge. In Proceedings of CHI'91, New Orleans. Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley. 401. * Long, J.B. (1991) A Conceptualisation of Aviation Psychology on the Civil Flight Deck. In Human Resource Management in Aviation, E. Farmer (Ed). Avebury Technical. 177-189. * Lim, K.Y., Long, J.B. and Silcock, N. (1992) Integrating human factors with structured analysis and design methods: From conception to an extended Jackson System Development Method. Ergonomics, Vol. 35, 1135-1162. %SECTION HCI Faculty %Name M. Andrew Life %Title Lecturer %Degree PhD Ergonomics (HCI), Univ. of London, 1991; MSc Ergonomics, Univ. of London, 1982; BA Experimental Psychology, Univ. of Oxford, 1981 %Phone +44 (0)71 387 7050 extn 5318 %Email a.life@ucl.ac.uk %Interests + * Simulation in UI design * Methods supporting HCI in system development * Speech I/O * User requirements specification * HCI curriculum design %Publications + * Life, M.A., Long, J.B. and Lee, B.P. (1994) Providing human factors knowledge to non-specialists: A structured method for the evaluation of future speech interfaces. Accepted for publication in Ergonomics (in press) * Life, M.A. (1991) A conceptualization of simulation for user interface development. In Simulation and the User Interface, M.A. Life, C. Narborough-Hall and W.I. Hamilton (Eds). London: Taylor & Francis. pp.31-42. * Whitefield, A.D., Wight, J., Life, A. & Colbert, M. (1991) Assessing the programming language PML as a task analysis method and product. In People and Computers VI, Proceedings of HCI '91: Usability Now, Edinburgh, Scotland, 20-23 August 1991, D. Diaper & N. Hammond (Eds). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. %SECTION HCI Faculty %Name Andy Whitefield %Title Senior research Fellow %Degree PhD Ergonomics 1986 University of London; BA Psychology 1978 University of Warwick %Phone +44-71-387-7050 x5317 %Email a.whitefield@ucl.ac.uk %Interests + * user interface design methods * task analysis * evaluation * user modelling %Publications + * Whitefield A.D. and Hill R., 1994, A comparative analysis of task analysis products. Interacting With Computers, (in press). * Whitefield A.D., Esgate, A., Denley, I., and Byerley, P., 1993, On distinguishing work tasks and enabling tasks. Interacting With Computers, 5(3), 333-347. * Whitefield A.D. and Sutcliffe A., 1992, Case study in human factors evaluation. Information and Software Technology, 34(7), 443-451. %SECTION HCI Faculty %Name Russel L. Winder %Title Reader in Software Engineering %Degree PhD University of Liverpool 1980; BSc University of Sussex 1977 %Phone +44 (0)71 380 7293 %Email r.winder@cs.ucl.ac.uk %Interests + * parallel object-oriented systems * tools and interfaces for system development * psychology of developers %Publications + %SECTION HCI Faculty %Name Angela Sasse %Title Lecturer %Degree M.Sc., Occupational Psychology, Univ. of Sheffield '86 %Phone +44-71-380 7212 %Email a.sasse@cs.ucl.ac.uk %Interests + * mental models * Multimedia (esp. 3-D displays) * CSCW %Publications + * Sasse, M. A. (1992): Users' models of computer systems. In: Rogers, Y. et al. [Eds.]: Models in the Mind. London: Academic Press. * M.A. Sasse, M.J. Handley & S.C. Chuang (1993): Support for Collaborative Authoring via Email: The MESSIE Environment. G. de Michaelis, C. Simone and K. Schmidt [Eds.]: Proc. Third European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work - ECSCW93, pp. 249-264. Dordrecht: Kluwer. * Sasse, M. A., Handley, M. J. & Ismail, N. I. (1994): Coping with Complexity and Interference: Design Issues in Multimedia Conferencing Systems. In: D. Rosenberg & C.S. Hutchison [Eds.]: Design Issues in CSCW. Berlin: Springer. %SECTION HCI Courses %Title Human Factors in Human-Computer Interaction %Number %Instructor M. Andrew Life, John Long %Frequency Annual %Times_Taught 3 %Enrollment 20 %Format Lectures, practical exercises, visits, project %Tools Hypercard %Text + * Dix, Findlay, Abowd and Beale, 1993. %Description The course conceptualises the discipline of HCI, integrating material from background courses in Organisational and Experimental Applied Psychology, Experimental Design, Computer Science / Software Engineering and Physical Ergonomics. Lectures describe the phenomena of HCI and methods for HCI requirements specification, design and evaluation. External visits illustrate applications and research in HCI.