http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.human-factors/ Posts for comp.human-factors Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:07:39 PST http://www.nnseek.com/ http://www.nnseek.com/img/64.png 64 64 NNSeek http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.human-factors/immediate_opening_gui_software_development_position_21318340t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.human-factors/immediate_opening_gui_software_development_position_21318340t.html User Interface Designer


Roles and Responsibilities:

In this position you will be responsible for leading the initiative to
define, design and implement leading edge user interfaces for our small
business telephony software and hardware product lines. You will be
part of a growing team where your contributions will significantly
impact the future success of the company

You are a driven and motivated self-starter that wants to contribute
directly to the success of your team. As a company on the leading edge
of Voice and data technologies for small business, we have a position
for you on our application software team developing the next generation
of user friendly interfaces for our product line.

Primary experience and skills:

· Minimum of 5 years of GUI software development with proven
achievements
· Ability to work independently and in a team environment
· Strong working knowledge of GUI design, skinning and usability
principles.
· Java/Netbeans, Microsoft C++, Telephony and XML/HTML.
· The ideal candidate will have a college or university degree in
human interface design or software engineering

Please note only selected candidates will be contacted.

Contact: esimms@cistel.com

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I would appreciate feedback on this site currently in beta:

http://forwardingtree.com

Some forwarding links to try:

http://forwardingtree.com/#youtube.com/2
http://forwardingtree.com/#www.cs.washington.edu/3
http://forwardingtree.com/#events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/2
http://forwardingtree.com/#labs.live.com/2

Since I am interested in first impressions, perhaps you can tell me
what you think the site is about. I hope to make it self-explanatory,
even for non-technical people.

Amir

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]]> Mon, 15 Jan 2007 06:49:54 PST http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.human-factors/cfp_i_know_07_7th_international_conference_on_knowledge_20077508t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.human-factors/cfp_i_know_07_7th_international_conference_on_knowledge_20077508t.html
I-KNOW 07 - 7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

5 - 7 September 2007
Graz, Austria
http://www.i-know.at

Knowledge management has been called everything from innovative and
crucial to new wine in old bottles and dead. Usually, different
perceptions spring from different perspectives. The aim of I-KNOW
is to bring a broad array of these perspectives together, to learn
from each other and to jointly find promising ways ahead for
the future.
In 2007, this will be reflected by putting special emphasis on
discovering and comprehensively managing knowledge relationships,
and on service-based knowledge management solutions.

Now in its seventh year, I-KNOW has a tradition of bringing
together Europe´s leading researchers and practitioners involved
in knowledge management. Attracting more than 500 attendees,
I-KNOW is the premier conference on knowledge management in Europe.
I-KNOW provides a perfect opportunity to stay abreast of
the latest developments in the field. Both the human/organizational
perspective and the technology perspective are
covered. The novelty and the quality of the accepted contributions
are ensured by a high-calibre program committee featuring international
experts on a broad range of knowledge management topics.

Beginning in 2007, I-KNOW will be complemented by I-MEDIA
(www.i-media.tugraz.at),
the First International Conference on New Media Technology, which will be
held concurrently with I-KNOW. This extension reflects the increasing
importance and convergence of knowledge management and new media
technologies.

Submission
I-KNOW 07 invites the submission of original contributions
from academic, public and industrial/commercial sectors.
The conference focus is on application-oriented research
with emphasis on information technologies for knowledge
management and new management tools and methods.
We welcome papers which present methods, tools,
technologies best practices and case studies.

Submissions for the thematic tracks on the first conference day should
address:

- Knowledge Organisation and Semantic Technologies
- Integrating Working and Learning in Business
- Task and Process Exploration and Modelling
- Knowledge Visualization and Knowledge Discovery
- Knowledge Sharing using Social Software

Regular paper submissions for the second and third dayof I-KNOW '07 may
include
but are not limited to:

- Identifying Relationships between different kinds of
Knowledge Entities
- Making Use of Knowledge Relationships
- Service-oriented Architectures for Knowledge Management Systems
- Service-based Knowledge Management
- Orchestration of Knowledge Management Services
- Distributed Knowledge Management
- Semantic Technologies and Systems
- Social Network Analysis
- Knowledge Work Productivity
- Communication and Collaboration in Knowledge Management
- Context and Usage Pattern Identification and Management
- Agile Approaches to Knowledge Management

Deadlines
02 April 2007: Full paper submission (4-8 pages)
21 May 2007: Notification of acceptance
25 June 2007: Final version (8 pages)
5-7 September 2007: I-KNOW Conference

Authors Guidelines
www.i-know.at/author guidelines/style_guide

Conference Submissions
By upload to www.i-know.at/submission
File types: PDF (preferred), Word for Windows


Kind regards,
Klaus Tochtermann & Hermann Maurer
I-KNOW Conference Chairs

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Please accept our apologies should
you receive multiple copies of this
call from different lists.
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]]> Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:10:37 PST http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.human-factors/nc_product_design_directoy_www_ncproductdesign_com_18368708t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.human-factors/nc_product_design_directoy_www_ncproductdesign_com_18368708t.html
I am looking for feedback on a the "NC Product Design Directory" at

http://www.ncproductdesign.com

If you get a chance, please take a look and let me know if you you
have any comments (or suggestions), especially in the following areas:

- ease-of-use
- look and feel
- operations
- picking an ad from the list of vendors once you have selected a
category (or sub-category)

We want to make sure that the directory accomplishes the following:

- providing immediate value to a subcriber (i.e. firm or consultant
placing the ad)
- providing long term value to a subscriber (i.e. firm or consultant
placing the ad)
- providing immediate value to a reader
- providing long term value to a reader

Do you have any suggestions on how to improve the directory's
performance in any of the areas above?

Thanks for taking a look.

Sincerely,
Montie Roland
montie@montie.com
President
Montie Inc.
www.montie.com

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]]> Sat, 23 Dec 2006 07:07:56 PST http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.human-factors/studentships_for_phd_study_in_informatics_edinburg_18254020t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.human-factors/studentships_for_phd_study_in_informatics_edinburg_18254020t.html the School of Informatics at
the University of Edinburgh
---------------------------

FIFTY research studentships are available for:

* UK students
* EU students
* students worldwide

Many of these are full studentships, paying your tuition fees and a
stipend of 12600 pounds to cover living expenses in your first year,
rising in second and third years. The rest pay your fees and/or a
contribution towards living expenses. Payment of fees for non-EU
students is subject to successful competition for an Overseas Research
Student award. PhD students are encouraged to make contributions to
teaching, for example by leading tutorial groups, and for this you can
expect to earn an additional 500-1000 pounds per year.

Informatics
-----------
Informatics is the study of information and computation, in both
natural and engineered systems. It comprises a vast range of
scientific and engineering endeavour and has enormous economic and
social impact.

Edinburgh University's School of Informatics brings together the
former Departments of Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and
Computer Science, together with the Artificial Intelligence
Applications Institute. The School possesses a combination of breadth
and strength unparallelled elsewhere in the UK and competitive
world-wide; as an intellectual endeavour it is strikingly original.

The School is the only university grouping in the UK to have achieved
the top 5*A rating in Computer Science in the UK government's 2001
Research Assessment Exercise round, and it is the UK's biggest
research group in this area. We currently have around 250 students
studying for PhD, and around 130 for MSc.

PhD study
---------
PhD study is carried out within one of our six research Institutes:

ANC: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation
CISA: Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications
ICCS: Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems
ICSA: Institute for Computing Systems Architecture
IPAB: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour
LFCS: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science

ANC fosters the study of adaptive processes in both artificial and
biological systems; two themes are the study of artificial learning
systems and the analysis and modelling of brain processes. CISA
undertakes basic and applied research and development in knowledge
representation and reasoning. Through its applications institute
AIAI, it works with others to deploy the technologies associated with
this research. ICCS pursues basic research into the nature of
communication among humans and between humans and machines, using
text, speech and graphics, and the design of interactive dialogue
systems, using computational and algorithmic approaches.

ICSA seeks development of a better understanding of systems
components, both hardware and software, and their integration and
interaction; this involves not only improving their raw performance
and cost-effectiveness, but also making them more connectable and
interoperable, more reliable, more usable and more applicable. The
interests of IPAB are how to link computational perception,
representation, transformation and generation processes to external
worlds---whether real or virtual. The mission of LFCS is to achieve a
foundational understanding of problems and issues arising in
computation and communication through the development of appropriate
and applicable formal models and mathematical theories.

Projects
--------
A very wide range of research topics is available for PhD study. Here
is an (incomplete!) list of project areas; see

http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/phdprojects.html

for some information on each of these.

ANC: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation
--------------------------------------------------
Bioinformatics
Machine Learning
Neuroinformatics

CISA: Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications
-----------------------------------------------------------
A Proof Management Tool
Automating Diagrammatic Reasoning
Improving Support for Mathematics in Mechanical Theorem Provers
Multi-Agent Coordination in Open Environments
Game-Theoretic Analysis of Multiagent Communication
Argumentation-Based Ontology Conflict Resolution
Social Algorithms
Political Coordination Mechanisms
A Simple Agent Programming Language
Intelligent Agents in Service-Oriented Architectures
Human/Robotic Task Achieving Team

ICCS: Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems
-----------------------------------------------------------
Concurrency in (Computational) Linguistics
Lexicalized Reasoning
Building Models of the Past
Statistical Methods in Dialogue System Design and Adaptation
Machine Learning for Complex Structures
Eyetracking Corpora as Experimental Data
Probabilistic Models of Human Parsing
Integrating Linguistic and Visual Processing
Dynamic Bayesian Networks for Speech Recognition
Probabilistic Approaches to Natural Language Generation
Probabilistic Models of Text-to-text Generation
Robust Construction of Semantics
Projecting Logical Forms in Parallel Corpora
Deep and Robust Semantic Interpretation
A Grammar of Situated Language
Statistical Machine Translation for Biomedical Domains
Microphone-Array Based Speech Recognition
Language Models for Multiparty Conversations
Hidden Speech Production Models
Multimodal Information Access
Head Motion Synthesis for Lifelike Conversational Agents
Multi-Unit Acoustic Models for Speech Recognition
Induction of Wide-Coverage Categorial Lexicon from Large Amounts of
Unlabeled Text
Use of Intonation in Spoken Language Generation for Human-Machine
Dialogue
Temporal Semantics
Grammar-Driven Language Models
Automated Musical Analysis
The Statistical Semantic Web
Extracting and Using Alternatives in Question Answering
Projecting Discourse Annotation from Parallel Corpora

ICSA: Institute for Computing Systems Architecture
--------------------------------------------------
Speculative Parallelisation for Multiprocessors
Cellular Multiprocessors
Skeletal Parallel Programming
Noise-Tolerant Asynchronous Circuits
Data-Dependent Processing for Energy-Aware Systems
Top-down Testability for Self-Timed Circuits
Micro-architectural Solutions for Fault-Tolerance
Delay Fault Testing of Self-Timed Circuits
Dynamic Spectrum Access in Heterogeneous Wireless Network Environments
Cross-layer and Coding Techniques for Reliable and Efficient
Wireless Networking
Low-cost, Robust Networking and Applications for Developing Regions
Auto-Parallelisation
Compilers that Learn to Optimise
Processor Design
Reconfigurable Caches
Searching the Embedded Program Optimisation Space
Automated Synthesis of Architectures and Compilers
Energy and Area Modelling for Architecture Synthesis
Microarchitecture Synthesis for Embedded Architectures
Low-Power Multi-Threaded Architectures
Reconfigurable Data-Parallel Structures for Embedded Computation

IPAB: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour
---------------------------------------------------
Behaviour Composition in Video Sequence Analysis
Temporal 3D Model Recovery and Representation
Insect Robotics

LFCS: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science
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Engineering Electronic Proof
Independence-Friendly Temporal Logic
Questions on Modal mu-Calculi
Archiving of Scientific Data
Integrity Constraints for XML and Beyond
Keys for XML
Provenance in Databases
Information Preserving Schema Mapping
Vectorizing XML
Randomized Algorithms for Transportation Polytopes
Complexity of Approximate Counting
Algorithmic Verification of Recursive Probabilistic Systems
Schema-Directed XML Publishing
A Security Model for XML
XML Query Languages
Data Cleaning
Schema Matching, Mapping and Embedding
Partial Evaluation and Distributed Query Processing
PEPA Nets: Modelling Mobile Systems
Performance Modelling with Process Algebras
Computational Models for Systems Biology
Combining Model Checking and Theorem Proving
Data Exchange
Databases and Verification
A Logic of Computational Effects
Algebraic and Logical Foundations of Formal Software Development
Proof Carrying Code for the Grid
Security for Mobile Devices
Topological Models of Computation
Constructive Set Theories and their Applications
Proof Theory for Programs and Processes
Type Systems for Computational Effects
Mathematical Models for Concurrent and Mobile Computation
Modalities for Name Generation: Logic, Proof and the Meaning of New
"Bad Smells" in Code
Combinations and Abstractions of Formal Games
Decision Procedures for Higher-Order Grammars
Links: Web Programming, Faster, Better, Cheaper

Further information
-------------------
Information about graduate study, the School of Informatics, the
University as a whole and the city of Edinburgh is available from:

http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/
http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/
http://www.ed.ac.uk

You can email queries to our Graduate Secretary at:

phd-admissions@inf.ed.ac.uk

and queries about the research topics above to individual members of
teaching staff. Application forms are available from:

http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/appform.html

Your application form should be returned by mid-March. Earlier
applications have access to a wider range of sources of financial aid.
Applications for an Overseas Research Student award must be completed
by mid-February at the latest. Chinese applicants who are interested
in funding from the China Scholarship Council should apply by 19th
January at the latest.

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]]> Fri, 22 Dec 2006 07:52:30 PST http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.human-factors/ou_mobile_privacy_user_interface_project_survey_17902532t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.human-factors/ou_mobile_privacy_user_interface_project_survey_17902532t.html
I am a part time post graduate student with the Open University, doing a MSc
research project on a proposed mobile phone location disclosure/shared
calendar privacy user interface.

As part of the project's data collection activities I am conducting a survey
to gain a greater understanding of users privacy preferences.

I would be grateful if you can take about 10 minutes of your time to fill
out the survey at the link below:
http://www.my3q.com/home2/117/hughwp/63699.phtml
(No personal data is collected)
Thank you for your interest.

Regards

Hugh

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]]> Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:12:48 PST http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.human-factors/hci_vs_gui_development_16617924t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.human-factors/hci_vs_gui_development_16617924t.html
HCI most of the time focuses on tips and guidelines. It investigates
user experience, mental models, conceptual models, metaphor, user
performance in accomplishing tasks.

But considering industrial use i don't feel how it goes on with actual
Gui design. How to properly model interaction with user. UML as far as
i know do not address GUI design. There is no commonly used models to
abstract from particular platform. I think user interfaces are build
using drag-and-drop technique, sketches and most of issues are not
modeled, but just kept in mind by GUI programmer.

Am i correct ? Can anyone point out proper direction. Is there either
UML extension or any other technique (that is popular) used to describe
and model interaction between user and GUI. Any visual languages that
facilitate building model of GUI and could be used to automatically
generate code, GUI from model (that could be XAML, XUL, HTML files).

--
Kind regards,
llapinski

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]]> Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:05:31 PST http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.human-factors/introduction_16508612t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.human-factors/introduction_16508612t.html
I just joined this group and it's great to be here actually. I'm
already learning a lot. I'm a usability analyst at Kern which is
located in India. Hope to hear from you soon!

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]]> Thu, 14 Dec 2006 21:07:22 PST http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.human-factors/time_critical_interfaces_16495044t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.human-factors/time_critical_interfaces_16495044t.html 73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com>,
niall gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Imagine that you are involved in 4 poker games at once, with a meagre
>15 seconds to act between turns on each table. Money is at stake, You
>the user will have a lot of statistics to stay aware of (for a
>potential 39 other players) - including preflop bets, flops seen and an
>array of other statistics, as well as statistics regarding the players
>own hand.
>

Four screens. If you can't handle four screens, you should try
playing in 3 poker games at once. With this strategy you need
only optimize your interface for one game == one screen. And
that would be a good way to start. You will pardon me if I
have confused your example with the real problem to be solved.

Hope that helps.

--bks

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]]> Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:41:49 PST http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.human-factors/a_play_on_the_scrollbar_16211908t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.human-factors/a_play_on_the_scrollbar_16211908t.html in a very long list (e.g. a dictionary or encyclopedia index). I
propose that the user could scroll his mouse wheel (middle button) at a
scrollbar position to zoom in/out there. In the zoomed-in mode, an
additional gauge is displayed beside the scrollbar, showing the current
min, max, PageUp/PageDown step length and position value. From another
point of view, this equals adding an "altitude" property to the
original scrollbar.

Regards,
Yao Ziyuan

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