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***  Everyone is welcome to attend.

                     Ottawa ACM/SIGCHI February Meeting
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Date:       Thursday, February 16, 1995

Time:       19:00 - 21:00

Place:      BNR Skyline  (Formerly "Meriline", Merivale & Baseline)
            Tower 5 (west side of complex)
            1st Floor, Rose Room
            Building faces Baseline Rd. on north side  

Speaker:    Sonia D. Bot, Bell-Northern Research Ltd.

Topic:      System Models in the Real World for Real People


                          About the Talk
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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.

                          About the Speaker
                          =================

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.

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                          Up Coming Meetings
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March 16    - Software Visualization of Very Large Systems 
              (Tim Dudley, BNR)

April       - (Need Volunteers)

May         - CHI'95 Review
              (Need Volunteers)

June        - Natural Language in Virtual Environments
                        or even perhaps
              Natural Language for Virtual Reality
              (Arnold Smith, NRC)

July-August - No meetings.  Summer recess.

The venue for these meetings is BNR Skyline (Rose Room), north west
corner of Merivale and Baseline roads.

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                  Volunteers for May CHI'95 Review
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If you are attending CHI'95, please consider sharing your experiences at 
our meeting in May (exact date to be determined).  Contact Peter Szmyt.

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                    Ottawa ACM/SIGCHI Scholarship
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The Ottawa ACM/SIGCHI now has a scholarship in place, valued 
at $75 (cost of text books for HCI course).  Nominations for 
the Ottawa ACM/SIGCHI Scholarship are always welcome (contact 
Peter Szmyt).  The nominee must be a student with a strong 
interest in HCI, and intends on pursuing further studies 
and/or a career in HCI.  Original HCI work and/or special 
projects are given high consideration.  The student must be a 
speaker at a monthly Ottawa ACM/SIGCHI meeting.

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For further information contact:
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Chair:       Peter Szmyt    (613)228-5100 x4029 
                            szmyt@simware.com

Treasurer &  Alan Frank     (613)763-2553
Memberships:                afrank@bnr.ca       

Technical    Sonia D. Bot   (613)763-4992
Advisor:                    sdbot@bnr.ca

Volunteers:  Kevin Burr     burr@bnr.ca
             Arnold Smith   arnold@ai.iit.nrc.ca
             Marceli Wein   wein@iit.nrc.ca