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Tue, 19 Apr 1994 11:10
Ottawa ACM/SIGCHI April Meeting
Author: Kevin Burr
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 11:10
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 11:10
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*** A reminder...
*** The location has changed from SustemHouse to BNR Carling.
*** Everyone is welcome to attend.
Ottawa ACM/SIGCHI April Meeting
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Date: Wednesday, April 20, 1994
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
Place: BNR Carling Auditorium
(Southwest corner of
Carling and Moodie, Nepean.)
Speaker: Mark H. Chignell
Department of Industrial Engineering
University of Toronto
Topic: Text Retrieval: The Case of the Missing
User Interface
*** Our speaker is sponsored by BNR. The Ottawa ***
*** ACM/SIGCHI would like to extend a special ***
*** thank you to Arlen Michaels (BNR) for arranging ***
*** this. ***
About the Talk
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The past decade has seen a remarkable change in the visibility and
status of the user interface for computer applications. This has
resulted in user interface standards, guidelines, and a whole new
discipline of usability engineering. Applications that run on personal
computers have generally been at the forefront of the user interface
revolution. Mainframe applications in general, and database applications
in particular, have generally seen less revolution and evolution in
their user interfaces.
Large scale text retrieval systems grew out of the mainframe
environments of the 1960s. As a result, text retrieval interfaces tend
to be batch oriented, and encourage command-based interaction rather
than direct manipulation. However, the interface revolution is slowly
spreading to the field of text retrieval. This talk will discuss the
problem of user interface design for text retrieval, and will describe
methods and applications for making the role of the user more prominent
and effective in text retrieval. In particular, the Queries-R-Links and
SuperBook systems will be described as examples of user-oriented
information exploration systems. The effect of the new emphasis on user
interfaces for future paradigms of information retrieval will also be
discussed.
About the Speaker
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Mark Chignell is an associate professor of Industrial Engineering at the
University of Toronto. He has a Ph.D in Psychology from the University
of Canterbury (New Zealand, 1981) and an MS in Industrial and Systems
Engineering from Ohio State University (1984). He taught Psychology at
Monash University (1980-82), and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Human
Performance Laboratory (Ohio State) in 1982-83. He was an assistant
professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of
Southern California (1984-1990) before moving to Toronto. He has
co-authored books on expert systems and intelligent databases (published
by John Wiley and Sons) and has research interests in the areas of user
interface design and information technology. His current research focus
is on the development of handheld multimedia information systems and
electronic books. In addition to ITRC, his research is presently funded
by NSERC, Ricoh Corporation of Japan, AECL, and Apple Computer.
He is a member of the Telepresence project at the University of Toronto
and works within the human factors and information systems groups in the
industrial engineering department there.
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