[mod.conferences] Workshop: Mental Models and Human-Computer Interaction

taylor@hplabsc.UUCP (02/18/87)

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                        AUSTRIAN COMPUTER SOCIETY (OCG)
                            in cooperation with the
               AUSTRIAN SOCIETY FOR EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY (GBT)
                                        
         6th Interdisciplinary Workshop on "Informatics and Psychology"
                                        
                  MENTAL MODELS AND HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION

                            Time: June, 9 - 12, 1987

                           Place: Scharding (Austria)
                          Kammer der Gewerblichen Wirtschaft

CONFERENCE CHAIRMEN
                                        
David Ackermann (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Michael J. Tauber (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

David Ackermann (ETH Zurich)
Klaus Eyfferth (TU Berlin)
Siegfried Greif (University Osnabruck)
Heinz-Ulrich Hoppe (FAO/IAO Stuttgart)
Friedhart Klix (Humboldt University Berlin)
Andreas Meier (ETH Zurich)
Jens Rasmussen (Riso National Laboratory)
Gabriele Rohr (IBM Science Center Heidelberg)
Helmut Schauer (TU Vienna)
Michael J.Tauber (University of Pittsburgh)

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

This international interdisciplinary workshop has already tradition. The
workshops are established for a broad discussion of informatics problems
in an interdisciplinary cooperation with psychologists.

In the field of human-computer interaction, the important role of
psychological research is more and more recognized. In order to
find out strong design methods for the user interface, we need
systematic knowledge of the relationship between a user interface
and its requirements to a user. For the knowledge a user has or
should have of a system, the term user's mental model becomes more and
more popular. 

The workshop aims for a broad discussion of the mental model approach in
informatics and psychology.


                        PROGRAM

Monday, June 8

20:00         Informal Meeting in the "Gasthaus zur Stiege"     


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Tuesday, June 9

         INTRODUCTORY SESSION: Opening and Opening Lecture

              Chairman: Waern, Y. (Stockholm, Sweden)


 8.00 -  9.00  Registration

 9.00 -  9.15  Opening

 9.15 - 10.00  Ackermann, D. & Tauber, M.J. (Zurich, CH - Pittsburgh, USA)
               Mental Models and Human-Computer Interaction:
               Aim and Scope of the Conference

              
               Coffee Break


10.30 - 11.30  Invited Opening Lecture
               T.R.G.Green (MRC Applied Psychology Unit Cambridge, UK)
               Toward a Unified Conceptual Framework of Human-Computer 
               Interaction

11.30 - 12.30  Rasmussen, J. (Riso National Lab, Denmark)
               Mental Models and their Implications for the Design
          

               Lunch


           SESSION 1: General Aspects of Mental Models

       Chairman: Veer, van der G.C. (Amsterdam, Netherlands)


15.00 - 16.00  Waern, Y. (University of Stockholm, Sweden)
               On the Dynamics of Mental Models


               Coffee Break


16.30 - 17.30  Hockey, B. (MRC Applied Psychology Unit, Sheffield, UK)
               Styles, Skills, and States: Implications of Cognitive 
               Variability for the Role of Mental Models in HCI

17.30 - 18.30  Hagendorf, W. (Humboldt University Berlin, GDR)
               Human-Computer Interaction and Knowledge-Based Problem Solving


20.00          Reception and Conference Dinner (Gasthaus Forstinger)
          

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Wednesday, June 10

   SESSION 2: Interdisciplinary Aspects of Designing the User Interface

               Chairman: Hoppe, H.-U. (FAO Stuttgart, FRG)


 9.30 - 10.30  Veer G.C. et al. (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)
               Designing for the Mental Model: An Interdisciplinary 
               Approach to the Definition of a User Interface of an
               Electronic Mail System

10.30 - 11.30  Wetzenstein-Ollenschlager, R. & Wandke, H.
               (Humboldt University Berlin, GDR)
               Toward Adaptive Human-Computer Interfaces
               

               Coffee Break


12.00 - 13.00  Rohr, G. (IBM Science Center Heidelberg, FRG)
               Searching for and Operating on Data: People's Conceptual 
               Views on Complex Data Structures and their Implication 
               for Database - Interface Design


               Lunch


   SESSION 3: Design and Specification of the User Interface

          Chairman: Ackermann, D. (Zurich, Switzerland)


15.00 - 16.00  Zemanek, G.V. (IBM Science Center Heidelberg, FRG)
               On the Specification of Database User Interfaces

16.00 - 17.00  Hoppe, H.U. (FAO Stuttgart, FRG)
               A Grammar Based Approach to Unifying Task Oriented 
               and System Oriented Interface Description


               Coffee Break


17.30 - 18.30  Chang, S.K. & Tauber, M.J. (University Pittsburgh, USA)
               Toward a UVM Based User Interface Prototyping Environment:
               A Unified Approach to the Implementation of User Interfaces
               Based on a Competent User's Conceptual Model


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Thursday, June 11

             SESSION 4: User Models, Learning, Manuals

              (Chairman: Green, T.R.G., Cambridge, UK)


 8.30 -  9.30  Briggs, P. (MRC Applied Psychology Unit, Sheffield, UK)
               On the Role of the User Model in Externally and 
               Internally Directed Learning

 9.30 - 10.30  Desmarais, M.; Giroux, L. & Larochelle, S.
               (University Montreal, Canada)
               User Modelling for a Text-Editor Coach


               Coffee Break


11.00 - 12.00  Schindler, R. (Humboldt University Berlin, GDR)
               On the Relationship between a User's Self Teaching
               and his Knowledge

12.00 - 13.00  Rupietta, W. (Triumph-Adler, Nurnberg, FRG)
               Mental Models and the Design of User Manuals


               Lunch


14.30 - 20.30  Trip to the famous baroque monastery Engelszell on the Danube
               Heuriger (typical rustical Austrian dinner)


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Friday, June 12

        SESSION 5: Simulation of Mental Models

         Chairman: Schindler, R. (Berlin, GDR)


 8.30 -  9.30  Ringelband, O.J., Misiak, I., & Kluwe, R.H. 
               (University Hamburg, FRG)
               Mental Models and Strategies in the Control of a 
               Complex System

 9.30 - 10.30  Ackermann, D. & Greutmann, Th. (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
               Experimental Reconstruction and Simulation of Mental Models


               Coffee Break


      SESSION 6: Mental Models and Data Base Search

         Chairman: Rohr, G. (Heidelberg, FRG)


11.00 - 12.00  Linde, L. & Bergstrom, M. (University Upsalla, Sweden)
               An Experimental Study on Mental Models in Database Search

12.00 - 13.00  Wettler, M. (University Konstanz, FRG)
               Empirical Study of the Search Interview in On-Line Retrieval


               Lunch


            SESSION 7: Mental Models and Implementations

     Chairman: Tauber, M.J. (University of Pittsburgh, USA)


14.30 - 15.30  Begeman, M.L. (MCC Austin, USA)
               View Navigation: The Importance of Mental Models in Viewing
               Complex Information Spaces

15.30 - 16.30  Beck, H. (Scottish HCI-Center Edinburgh, UK)
               Interactive Decision Support System for Developing 
               Logic Based Models

16.30 - 16.45  Closing



HOW TO TRAVEL TO SCHARDING

By Car:
1. Autobahn Nurnberg - Passau - (Linz)
2. B12 Munchen - (Passau)
3. Autobahn Wien - Linz - Wels - Scharding 


By Train:
International Line Wien - Linz - Frankfurt
                   Wien - Linz - Hamburg


Next Airports:

Linz (Austria) (change for Scharding: train Linz - Scharding)

Salzburg (Austria) (change for Scharding: train Salzburg - Wels
                                                Wels - Scharding)






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