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    	SYSTEM MODELS IN THE REAL WORLD FOR REAL PEOPLE 
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Speaker: 	      SONIA BOT
Date and time:  Wednesday, October 12, 1994, 7:15pm
Place:         	BNR Skyline, Baseline Rd. at Merivale  
                Tower 5, 1st Floor, Rose Room (free parking available)
Contact:       	Dorina Petriu, Tel:788-5652, e-mail: d.petriu@ieee.org


As users of high technology products become ubiquitous and more 
demanding, the need for a product's profound simplicity, self evidence, 
and conspicuous value become critical factors in its acceptance and 
success.  With the increase in degrees of freedom available to designing 
such products, lack of proper planning and judgement can lead many 
designers down the road to more unsatisfied users and unusable systems.  
Solid system models reduce such risks.  Solid system models focus on the 
real people using the products.
 
In her talk, Sonia will be presenting the building blocks for developing 
and integrating such system models.  She will be focussing on typical 
real life examples found in software products.  She will further this by 
taking a holistic approach in exploring the cross-correlation and use of 
models from other disciplines such as medicine, art, sports, and 
recreation.

 
SONIA BOT has been with Bell-Northern Research (Ottawa) since 1987.  For 
her first five years, she worked in electronic CAD/CAE architectures and 
development.  Currently, she is working in the Corporate Design Group on 
system architectures (with emphasis on human computer interaction) for 
new and future products in the telecommunications arena.  Prior to BNR, 
she worked for TransCanada PipeLines, IBM, and the University of 
Toronto.
Sonia has a BMath in Computer Science with Systems Design Engineering 
from the University of Waterloo, and a MASc in Biomedical Engineering 
from the University of Toronto.  Sonia is the co-founder, past 
president, and current technical advisor of the Ottawa ACM/SIGCHI.