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                                      BayCHI,
                      the San Francisco Bay Area ACM SIGCHI
             (Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction),
                           announces its October meeting:

                             Tuesday, October 11, 1994
                                   7:30 - 9:30 pm


                         Too Much Hypertext or Too Little?
                              Jakob Nielsen, SunSoft


                               Xerox PARC Auditorium
                               3333 Coyote Hill Road
                               Palo Alto, CA 94304

 
Abstract:
 
With the World Wide Web growing at about 10,000% per year, you might
think that there was too much hypertext in the world.  Similarly, the
famous "lost in hyperspace" phenomenon would tend to indicate that too
much hypertext is a major usability problem.  At the same time, most
users actually get too little hypertext: either because they try to
find information but can't, or because their computational environment
has impoverished linking capabilities.  The usability of most current
hypertext systems is often much too poor to support appropriate user
access to information even though simple usability engineering methods
can enhance the interfaces considerably, as will be shown with examples
from the design of SunWeb (a WWW project).
 
We are currently living through the last years of the Age of Great
Applications.  Smaller, more agile interconnected objects will take the
place of the Great Apps with their five-level toolbars, and the coming
age of modularity will offer users a much richer interactive
environment with enhanced linking.
 
Biography:
 
Jakob Nielsen is Distinguished Engineer for Strategic Technology at
SunSoft (the software planet of Sun Microsystems).  His main project is
defining the next generation of strongly object-oriented user
interfaces.  He is also designing the user interface for Sun's next
generation of online documentation and working on enhancing the
maturity level of current usability engineering methodology.  Nielsen
coined the term "discount usability engineering" and has invented
several usability techniques for fast and cheap improvements of user
interfaces, including heuristic evaluation.  He is the author of the
best-selling books "Hypertext and Hypermedia" and "Usability
Engineering" and co-editor (with R. L. Mack) of the new definitive work
"Usability Inspection Methods".  Dr. Nielsen's earlier affiliations
include Bellcore, the Technical University of Denmark, and the IBM User
Interface Institute at the T. J. Watson Research Center.

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                        NOTES OF SPONSORSHIP & THANKS

BayCHI thanks Jock MacKinlay and Stu Card of Xerox PARC for sponsoring our
use of the Xerox PARC auditorium and its terrific A-V staff, including Andy
Aronson and Jennifer Ernst, for BayCHI monthly meetings.

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                     BayCHI's November meeting: November 8

       Get Into the Groove: Interactive, Live Performance in CyberSpace
                  Amy Jo Bilson, Viacom Interactive Services

                 (location: Xerox PARC Auditorium, Palo Alto)

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About BayCHI

BayCHI, the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of ACM's Special Interest
Group on Computer-Human Interaction, brings together systems designers,
human factors engineers, computer scientists, psychologists, social
scientists, users, ... from throughout the Bay Area to hear and to
exchange ideas about computer-human interaction and about the design
and evaluation of user interfaces.

To join BayCHI, which will get you added to the mailing list for the
newsletter, enable your access to the jobbank, enable your listing in
the consultants directory, ..., send a note to SAnderson.chi@xerox.com
or to BayCHI, PO Box 25, Menlo Park, CA 94026, and we will send you a
membership form.  Membership forms are also available at the BayCHI
meetings.

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                         BayCHI Steering Committee

The BayCHI steering committee meetings are open to anyone who is interested
in attending.  The meetings are generally held the first Tuesday of the month
at 7:30 p.m.  Please contact any member of the committee for directions to the
meeting.

Chair                  Ellen Francik       francik.chi@xerox.com
Vice Chair             Dave Salvator       dsalvator@zdlmail.ziff.com
Treasurer/Membership   Clark Streeter      cstreeter.chi@xerox.com
Program & Past Chair   Richard Anderson    rianderson.chi@xerox.com
 
Founding Chair         Kathy Hemenway      hemenway.chi@xerox.com
Membership             Steve Anderson      SAnderson.chi@xerox.com
Newsletter Editor      David Rowley        rowley.chi@xerox.com
Dinner Coordinator     Kate Finn           finn.chi@xerox.com

Publicity/HFES Liaison Susan Wolfe         wolfe_susan@tandem.com
SIGCHI Liaison         Don Patterson       patterson.chi@xerox.com
Job Bank               Bob Weissman        weissman.chi@xerox.com
Elections              David Simkin        david@makesys.com

Newsletter Distrib.    Clark Streeter      cstreeter.chi@xerox.com
Consultants Directory  Dave Salvator       dsalvator@zdlmail.ziff.com
Strng Comm Mtg Host    Ulrike Creach       creach.chi@xerox.com
At-large               Allison Hansen      ahansen@us.oracle.com

At-large               Monique Barbanson   mhb@stormtech.com
At-large               Fred Jacobson       fred@boole.com


             BayCHI -- P.O. Box 25 -- Menlo Park, CA -- 94026
 
 
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                           DIRECTIONS TO XEROX PARC
 
>From Highway 280, take the Page Mill Road exit. Go east one mile to Coyote
Hill Road (no light) and turn right. Go 1/2 mile and PARC will be on your
left. Follow the signs to the auditorium.
 
>From 101, take the Oregon Expressway exit west 2 miles to El Camino Real.
Oregon Expressway becomes Page Mill Road at El Camino Real. Follow Page
Mill Road 1.7 miles to Coyote Hill Road (no light) and turn left. Coyote
Hill Road is just past the intersection with Foothill Expressway. Go 1/2
mile and PARC will be on your left. Follow the signs to the auditorium.