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Barbara Mirel
6:00pm - 8.15pm
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
Compuware Corporate HQ,
Detroit, Michigan
$ 5 for Michigan MI-UPA, SE Michigan STC, and MOCHI members
$ 5 for Compuware (host company) employees
$15 for all others
FOOD and REFRESHMENTS will be provided, and parking
will be free
Description:
Interaction Design for Complex Problem Solving: Developing Useful and Usable SoftwareDo you work in software or web usability? Do you design interfaces for or document complex decision making, information retrieval, or exploratory analysis? Do you need to learn how to better use interactive visualizations for your own purposes or for your customers or clients? In this seminar, Barbara Mirel, professor at the University of Michigan focused on Human-Computer Interaction, will share her research into how to improve interaction design and employ visualizations to support the demands of users' complex work activities. Her talk will include theory and practice, illustrated by selected case studies and design examples. Mirel advocates a strategy for usability and design work that addresses the specific challenges of performing knowledge-based, complex work in complex systems, which are different in kind not just degree from straightforward, skill-based work.
Secondary Material:
Barbara's presentation with Leif Allmendinger at the International Institute for Information Design
Visualizing Complexity: Getting from there to here in ill-defined problem landscapes
About the Speaker
Barbara Mirel is Visiting Associate Professor and a Research Investigator in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Interaction Design for Complex Problem Solving: Developing Useful and Usable Software (Morgan Kaufmann, September 2003). She was the usability lead in the Visual Insights venture group at Lucent and, with teammates, holds a patent for the Visual Discovery design
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