HCI2005 Tutorials range from Project Management to Games Design

The 19th British HCI Group Annual Conference will be held at Napier University in Edinburgh, UK, from 5th-9th September 2005. Join researchers, practitioners and educators from around the world at HCI2005 where the conference will be exploring the theme of "The Bigger Picture".

As part of the conference programme there will be a premium number of tutorial events. These are as follows:-

DAY 1 - MONDAY 5th September 2005
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T1: A user-centred introduction to attending the HCI 2005 conference; with Steve Cummaford and John Long.
T2: Usability Design - Integrating User-Centred Systems Design in the Systems Development Process; with Jan Gulliksen.
T3: Working With and Analyzing Qualitative Data from Field Studies; with David A. Siegel and Susan Dray.
T4: Effective and enjoyable research careers in HCI; with Harold Thimbleby.

DAY 2 - TUESDAY 6th September 2005
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T5: More Effective Iterative Project Management; with John Long and Steve Cummaford.
T6: How to use design games to create engaging personas; with Lene Nielsen and Eva Brandt.
T7: An Introduction to User-Centred Design and Usability; with Eric Schaffer and John F Meech.
T8: Cognitive Factors in Design: Basic Phenomena in Human Memory and Problem Solving; with Thomas Hewett.

These tutorials will run on Monday 5th and Tuesday 6th September prior to the main conference sessions which start on Wednesday 7th Sept. Tutorial sessions will be held at the main conference venue: the historic Craiglockhart Campus of Napier University, famed for housing the recuperation of the First World War Poets, Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon.

The fee for attending one of the tutorials is £140. You can register to attend online by following the link below (http://www.bcs-hci.org.uk/hci2005/reg.asp).

Four high-profile speakers will deliver the conference keynotes: Pippa Dunn (Orange), Ted Nelson (Oxford Internet Institute), Mary Czerwinski (Microsoft Research) and Alistair Sutcliffe (UMIST). Those registering for the entire conference get full social programme including conference dinner on Wednesday, Ceilidh on Thursday, and conference proceedings.

For more information on individual tutorial content as well as general conference details please see the main conference website at http://www.hci2005.org. If you have questions not answered at the website, feel free to contact the tutorial co-chairs Shaun Lawson (slawson@lincoln.ac.uk) and Lars Oestreicher (larsoe@dis.uu.se).

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