%SECTION            Academic Unit
%Country            The Netherlands, Amsterdam
%Shortname          Vrije Univ., Computer Science
%Institution        Vrije Universiteit
%Unit               Dept. Computer Science
%Address            De Boelelaan 1081 A
1081 HV Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
%Phone              +31-20-5485591
%Fax                +31-20-6441746
%Email              gerrit@vdveer.cs.vu.nl
%Contact            Struan McCall, study coordinator
%Updated            1994-03-01
%Degrees            MS, Ph.D. in computer science
%HCI_MS_Theses      20
%HCI_PhD_Theses     1
%HCI_MS_Current     6
%HCI_PhD_Current    2
%Description Big CS department, featuring theoretical CS, AI,
Architecture and networking, software engineering, HCI, computer
languages, 130 people employed
%Facilities 350 work-locations, mostly SPARCstation 1 and 2, some
graphic terminals, 25 PCs, 20 Macs, 1 parallel programming
processor (128 processors), 4 Sparc 630 MP, 40 gigabyte disk
space, 1200 names in password file

%SECTION            HCI Program
%Contact            Gerrit C. van der Veer
%Title              lecturer and senior researcher
%Address            De Boelelaan 1081 A
1081 HV Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
%Phone              +31-20-5485591
%FAX                +31-20-6441746
%Email              gerrit@vdveer.cs.vu.nl
%Program HCI is compulsory part of curriculum Software
Engineering (includes both theory and literature of HCI, and
practice of UI design) and preferred choice for AI, and choice
for other CS majors.

%SECTION            HCI Faculty
%Name               Gerrit C. van der Veer
%Title              lecturer and senior researcher
%Degree             Ph.D., Vrije Universiteit, 1990, Cognitive Psychology
and Computer Science
%Phone              +31-20-5485591
%Email              gerrit@vdveer.cs.vu.nl
%Interests +
 * mental models of computer systems
 * task analysis
 * individual differences between computer users
 * UI architecture
 * UI design methods
 * formal representation languages
 * theory and models for CSCW
%Publications +
 * Design of the currency exchange interface: Task action grammar
   used to check consistency, J. Attema, G.C. van der Veer,
   Zeitschrift fuer Psychology, vol 200, 1992, 121-134
 * Individual differences and the user interface, G.C. van der
   Veer, Ergonomics, 32, 1989, 1431-1449
 * Human-Computer Interaction: Task and Organisation, G.C. van der
   Veer, M.J. Tauber, S. Bagnara, M. Antalovits (eds) ISBN
   88-7721-232-2, publisher: CUD (Italian Open University), Roma,
   1992

%SECTION            HCI Faculty
%Name               J.C. (Hans) van Vliet
%Title              Professor
%Degree             Ph.D.
%Phone              +31-20-5485702
%Email              hans@cs.vu.nl
%Interests +
 * architecture of user interfaces
 * re-usability of interface modules
 * formal modeling
%Publications +
 * Software Engineering: Principles and Practice. Hans van Vliet.
   John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, New York, Brisbane, Toronto, Singapore.
   1993, ISBN 0-471-93611-1

%SECTION            HCI Faculty
%Name               Geert de Haan
%Title              junior researcher
%Degree             MS Psychology
%Phone              +31-20-5485573
%Email              dehaan@cs.vu.nl
%Interests +
 * formal modeling
 * UI design tools
 * task analysis
%Publications +
 * Etag as the basis for intelligent help systems, G. de Haan,
   G.C. van der Veer, In: Human-Computer Interaction: Task and
   Organisation, G.C. van der Veer, M.J. Tauber, S. Bagnara, M.
   Antalovits (eds) ISBN 88-7721-232-2, publisher:CUD (Italian
   Open University), Roma, 1992, 271-283
 * Formal modelling techniques in human-computer interaction, G.
   de Haan, G.C. van der Veer, J.C. van Vliet, In: Cognitive
   Ergonomics: Contributions from Experimental Psychology, G.C.
   van der Veer, S. Bagnara, G.A.M. Kempen (eds) Elsevier Science
   Publishers B.V., Amsterdam, 1992

%SECTION            HCI Courses
%Title              Human-Computer Interaction
%Number             
%Instructor         Gerrit C. van der Veer
%Frequency          1 / year
%Times_Taught       4
%Enrollment         50
%Format             lectures
%Tools              -
%Text +
 * Baecker & Buxton
 - own lecture notes
%Description theory, models and notions of HCI approaches. some
basic cognitive psychology, application examples, design of
documentation and training, architecture of UI. Course closes by
each student preparing a small thesis (10-15 pages) on a thematic
set of literature sources

%SECTION            HCI Courses
%Title              Practice of HCI design
%Number             -
%Instructor         Gerrit van der Veer, Geert de Haan
%Frequency          1 / year
%Times_Taught       3
%Enrollment         30
%Format             lectures, group work sessions, small group home work
%Tools              various tools, mostly designed and implemented by MS
students, like compiler tools, syntax directed editors,
translators, prototyping tools
%Text +
 - own lecture notes
%Description students form design teams (max 15 per team,
structured in Task analysis and - design, formal modeling,
presentation interface, interaction style, prototyping and
evaluation, max 3 per subgroup). design an interface or
application system, e.g. photocopyer, email, communication
between cabs (taxis) and central station. Final product is a set
of design documents and design specifications.