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ERCIM News No.46, July 2001 Contents

by Gavriel Salvendy, Professor at Purdue University

News from DELOS - Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries

Introduction: Human Computer Interaction by Constantine Stephanidis
The ERCIM Working Group ‘User Interfaces for All’ by Constantine Stephanidis

Development methods and techniques

• User-Centred Methods for New Application Domains, New Users, New Interaction Media by Dominique Scapin and Noëlle Carbonell
• IS4ALL: An Analytical Insight into Universal Access by Constantine Stephanidis and Demosthenes Akoumianakis
• Supporting Collective Design Activities: A Cognitive Task Analysis Method by Françoise Darses, Françoise Détienne, Pierre Falzon and Willemien Visser
• Towards a Generic Framework for Building Intelligent Collaborative Interface Agents by George Vouros and Vangelis Kourakos-Mavromichalis
• Interface Development Toolkits for Non-visual and Switch-based Interaction by Constantine Stephanidis and Anthony Savidis
• Specifying User’s Knowledge: A Cognitive Ergonomic View on IT Design by Gerrit van der Veer

Adaptive, Multimodal, Continuous and Ubiquitous Interaction

• Human-Computer Interaction Challenges in Nomadic Computing by Reinhard Oppermann
• Reasoning about Interactive Systems with Stochastic Models by Gavin Doherty, Giorgio Faconti and Mieke Massink
• Hand-Gesture Recognition for HCI by Atid Shamaie, Wu Hai and Alistair Sutherland
• Improving Speech Recognition for Communication-oriented Activities by Andrew Sears
• Bimodal Voice/Video-Based Speech Interfaces by Pavel Zikovky and Pavel Slavík
• The Virtual Glove Box — A New I/O Device by Detlef Krömker and Christian Seiler
• Novel User Interfaces for the Future by Veli-Pekka Räty
• Roomware: Towards the Next Generation of Human-Computer Interaction by Norbert A. Streitz
• The Disappearing Computer Initiative by Norbert A. Streitz
• Human Computer Interaction and Virtual Worlds by Jutta Becker, Ivo Haulsen and Herbert Rüsseler
• User-centric Multimedia on the Web by Lynda Hardman
• Multimodal Interfaces for Multimedia Applications: Consequences on the Interface Design by Laurent Romary and Nadia Bellalem
• Constraint-Based Navigation in Three-Dimensional Scenes by Christoph Wick and Stefan Pieper
• Implementation of a Laser-based Interaction Technique for Projection Screens by Michael Wissen
• Físchlár on a PDA: A Hand-Held User-Interface to Digital Video by Hyowon Lee and Alan F. Smeaton
• Designing for Tangible Interaction: The BUILD-IT Project by Morten Fjeld and Matthias Rauterberg

Accessibility and Usability

• The W3C Web Accessability Iinitiative User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 by Ian Jacobs and Daniel Dardailler
• Supporting Usability through Software Architecture by Len Bass and Bonnie E. John
• Combining Formal and Empirical Evaluation Methods Regarding the Usability of Interactive Systems by Nico Hamacher
• Evaluation in Interactive Safety-Critical Contexts by Fabio Paternò and Carmen Santoro
• Usability on a Multiple Terminal Media Portal by Antti Tammela, Sari Lehtola and Katja Rentto
• Enabling Computer Access for Motion-impaired Users by Simeon Keates, P John Clarkson and Peter Robinson
• Visual Dysfunction and Human-Computer Interaction by Julie A. Jacko

Access to Information

• Navigating Information Spaces by David Benyon
• Information Access and Refinement — a Research Theme by Fredrik Olsson, Preben Hansen, Kristofer Franzen and Jussi Karlgren
• WebPR — Adaptive Information in the Physical City by Emmanuel Frécon, Anneli Avatare and Adrian Bullock
• Expert Contextual Online Help Strategies by Noëlle Carbonell and Antonio Capobianco
• Scrutability for Personalised Interfaces by Judy Kay
• MKBEEM — Developing Multilingual Knowledge-Based Marketplace by Alain Leger, Aarno Lehtola and Victor Villagra
• The A-Book: An Augmented Laboratory Notebook for Biologists by Wendy E. Mackay and Guillaume Pothier
• Visual Knowledge Management with Adaptable Document Maps by Andreas Becks and Matthias Jarke

Applications

• Human-Computer Interaction Issues in FAIRWIS by Maria Francesca Costabile and Paolo Buono
• Anyone, Anywhere Access to Community-oriented Services by Pier-Luigi Emiliani, Michael Pieper and Constantine Stephanidis
• Áit Eile, Another World for HCI by Paula Hicks, Rose Mc Grath, John Mc Keown, Kieran Mc Nally and Jane Grimson
• Our Approach to Social Computing by Kristina Höök
• Wireless Wellness Monitor by Juha Pärkkä and Raimo Lappalainen

Overviews of HCI Activities

• HCI Research at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology by Alistair Sutcliffe
• Human-Computer Interaction Activities in Italy by Maria Francesca Costabile and Fabio Paternò
• The Usability-Engineering Laboratory at GMD by Wolfgang Dzida and Regine Freitag

• Modeling Designers’ Activities in the Garment Industry by Rémy Taillefer and Dominique Scapin
• Teaching Computers to spot Interesting Images by Eric Pauwels
• Modelling SAR Images of Urban Areas by Ercan E. Kuruoglu and Josiane Zerubia
• netzspannung.org — an Experimental Architecture for interfacing Digital Art, Culture and Technology by Monika Fleischmann, Wolfgang Strauss, Jasminko Novak and Stefan Paal

• City-Traffic: An Artificial Reality System of Traffic in an Urban Area by Heinz Mühlenbein, Ulrich Bartling and Uwe Beyer
• The Possible Effect of a Turbine Testing Plant on the Quality of the Air - A Case-study for Air Pollution Transmissions by Sándor Márton and Tamás Rapcsák
• Updating Abramowitz & Stegun by Nico Temme

Announcements

• First IFIP Conference on e-commerce, e-business, e-government, Zurich, Switzerland, 3-5 October 2001
• ECDL 2001—5th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Darmstadt, Germany, 4-8 September 2001
• DELOS Workshop on Interoperability in Digital Libraries, Darmstadt, Germany, 8-9 September 2001
• cast01— Conference on Communication of Art, Science and Technology: Living in Mixed Realities, Sankt Augustin, Germany, 21-22 September 2001

See also: Calendar of Events and Conferences related to IT and Applied Mathematics