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Students are invited to register for free for this
Human-Computer Interaction Lab symposium on Friday - we are
expecting 200+ people...
    -- Ben Shneiderman

Direct link to web version:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/about/events/open-house-99/



                 Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory
       University of Maryland Institute of Advanced Computer
Studies

                    http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/

                16th Annual Symposium & Open House

                       Friday June 18, 1999

           (Pre-Symposium Workshops Thursday June 17, 1999)

                 to register: contact Cecilia Kullman
                     cecilia@umiacs.umd.edu
                        Tel (301) 405-0304
                        Fax (301) 314-9658

Organized with support from:
  Institute of Advanced Computer Studies
  Department of Computer Science
  College of Library and Information Services
  Department of Psychology
  Institute for Systems Research
  College of Education
  Academic Information Technology Services
  College of Computer, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences

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PRE-SYMPOSIUM WORKSHOPS - June 17th
        (more details at the end of message)

W1- Designing New Technologies for Children
 Allison Druin
W2- Zoomable User Interfaces (ZUIs)
 Ben Bederson
W3- Usability and Social Considerations in On-line Community
Design
 Jean Gasen and Jenny Preece
W4- Design and Implementation of Query Previews for Digital
Libraries
 Maya Ventkatraman and Catherine Plaisant

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SYMPOSIUM AND OPEN HOUSE PROGRAM - June 18th


8:15 SIGN IN AND COFFEE: Tyser Auditorium, Van Munching
Hall, Room 1212
(Register by June 5th - see registration information below)

9:00-2:30 Lectures

WELCOME: Ben Shneiderman, Head of HCIL; Joseph JaJa,
Director of UMIACS


INFORMATION VISUALIZATION

Finding Earth Science Data Using Query Previews
        M. Ventkatraman, K. Ngamkajornwiwat, E. Tanin, C.
Plaisant

Visualizing Legal Information
   Dynamic Queries for Categorical Information
        D. Feldman, B. Shneiderman
   Browsing Session History and Visualizing Case Histories
        A. Komlodi, B. Allen
   Snap-together Visualizations
        C. North

Multimedia Digital Libraries
        B. Allen, D. Oard, W.  Ding, L. Slaughter, J. Bush

Navigating Web  Hierarchies: Sequential or Simultaneous
Menus?
        K. Norman, H. Hochheiser

Zoomable User Interfaces
        B. Bederson, B. McAlister, M. Jump


LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS

SimPLE: Simulation Processes in a Learning Environment
    Development Environment Architecture
        A. Rose, G. Rubloff, N. Kositsyna
    Application to Advanced Transportation Systems
        C. Plaisant, P. Tarnoff, S. Keswani
    The Learning Historian
        R. Salter

Designing Technology with Children
        A. Druin, J. Montemayor, A. Boltman

Collaborative Story Telling Tools for Children
        A. Boltman, B. Bederson, J.P. Hourcade

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2:30-5:30 DEMONSTRATIONS - OPEN HOUSE

IBM Teaching/Learning Theater, Van Munching Hall - Room 2203

Computer Science/UMIACS, AV Williams Bldg - Room 3174
   Also joint demos with Education Dept., Geography dept.,
Lab. for
   Language and Media Processing and Center for Advanced
   Transportation Systems.

Psychology, Zoology-Psychology Bldg - Room 3111

College of Library and Information Services, Hornbake
Library - Room 4121

Space Sciences Lab, Neutral Buoyancy Research Facility -
Room 2100C

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MATERIALS RECEIVED

Registrants for the HCIL 16th Annual Symposium will receive:

*   ONE HOUR VIDEOTAPE of our HCIL 1998 Video Reports

*   A  set of recent TECHNICAL REPORTS and SLIDES from the
talks

*   15% off the $69 price of new 686 page full color book of
reprints
    plus commentary, READINGS IN INFORMATION VISUALIZATION:
USING
    VISION TO THINK, Stuart Card, Jock Mackinlay, & Ben
Shneiderman,
    (Eds.), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., 1999

*   15% off the $39.95 price of the new 320 page book which
includes 11
    chapters by authors from around the world discussing how
and why new
    technologies for children are designed. THE DESIGN OF
CHILDREN'S
    TECHNOLOGY, Allison Druin (Ed.) Morgan Kaufmann
Publishers Inc., 1999.

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REGISTRATION

>>>> To guarantee reservation of lunch and materials
>>>> we need your registration by JUNE 5

----------------cut here and mail, fax or
email------------------------

               HCIL Annual Symposium and Open House 1999
                             REGISTRATION

Mail to:  Cecilia Kullman, UMIACS,
AV Williams Building, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD 20742-3251
e-mail:  cecilia@umiacs.umd.edu
(301) 405-0304, fax (301) 314-9658

SYMPOSIUM (Friday June 18th)

Full fee includes videotape, technical reports, handouts,
book discount and lunch.
       ____ $170 Industry/Government

University faculty & staff fee includes videotape,
technical reports, handouts, book discount and lunch.
      ____  $100 Faculty/Staff
            (UMd and other academic institutions)

Free registrations without materials or lunch will be
granted to full-time undergraduate and graduate
students space permitting   _____ Free Student

Cannot attend, but would like a materials package
      ____  $70 materials package only

WORKSHOPS (Friday June 17th)

Registration requires PRIOR AUTHORIZATION from
workshop organizer:   _______  Workshop number

Workshop Registration includes lunch and handout
____$50 (if not registered for Symposium)
____$30 (with registration for symposium)


>>>> To guarantee reservation of lunch and materials
>>>> we need your registration by June 5


Please enclose a check made payable to The University of
Maryland, a
purchase order with the reference UMIACS/HCIL-SOH98 or
supply charge
card information.  To qualify for a 10% reduction you must
register a
group of 3 or more from the same organization at the same
time.

Credit card :   _ Visa    _ MasterCard   _ Discover

         Name: ______________________________
         (as it appears on the card)

         Card Number: _______________________

         Expiration date: _____________
         (we recommend mail or fax only for credit card
info)


PARKING - PARKING - PARKING - PARKING - PARKING - PARKING

We can provide you with a parking permit to park in Lot 1
near Van
Munching Hall if your request is received by June 5th.
Otherwise you
can park at the meters or in the parking garages, but
remember to
bring plenty of quarters for the parking meters!

       __ Please send parking permit

A free UMd shuttle also runs every 15 minutes from the
College Park
Metro station to the Student Union in the center of campus.

Expect a good amount of walking to see all the demos.

A map, the list of Technical reports and videos, and more
information
will be posted on our website as it become available.


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PRE-SYMPOSIUM WORKSHOPS
June 17, 1999

During the day prior to the Symposium and Open House, four
workshops
will enable small groups to focus on special topics .  Each
workshop
has different requirements for participation.  Please
consult the HCIL
website (www.cs.umd.edu/hcil) for details, or contact the
workshop
organizer directly .  The workshops will run from 10am to 4
pm on June
17th.


W1- Designing New Technologies for Children
 Allison Druin - (allisond@umiacs.umd.edu)

New processes for designing advanced technologies for
children are
emerging. We will discuss the role of children in this
process, the
importance of interdisciplinary partners, and the
complexities of
technology evaluation. Workshop participants will be asked
to share
their past experiences and examples from the University of
Maryland
will be presented.


W2- Zoomable User Interfaces (ZUIs)
 Ben Bederson - (bederson@cs.umd.edu)

ZUIs are an alternative to traditional windows-based
approaches of
information visualization.  We'll discuss ZUIs and their
trade-offs,
show examples, and describe the Java software we built (that
you can
use) to build zoomable applications.  This workshop will end
with
group design sessions.


W3- Usability and Social Considerations in On-line Community
Design
Jean Gasen and Jenny Preece - (preece@umbc.edu)

On-line communities are supported by a variety of software.
Increasingly communities consist of combinations of bulletin
boards,
listservs, chats and web pages. As more people come onto the
net the
limitations of current software and human moderation
capabilities will
increase. In this workshop we will identify problems and
document
possible solutions.


W4-Design and Implementation of Query Previews for Digital
Libraries
Maya Ventkatraman- Catherine Plaisant (maya@cs.umd.edu)

Query Previews allows users to rapidly gain an understanding
of the
content and scope of a digital collection.  It uses
overviews and
previews of abstracted metadata so that users perform rapid
and
interactive elimination of undesired data. This technology
transfer
workshop is aimed at NASA data managers but other developers
ready to
apply our techniques are welcome.

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