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- Graphics, Visualization & Usability
- Center
- Distinguished Lecture Series
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- presents
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- David Kieras
- University of Michigan
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- Thursday, January 7, 1993, 12:00 noon
- Room 102, Pettit Building
- (Microelectronics Research Center)
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- Analytic Models for User Interface Design
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- Abstract
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- The conventional approach to evaluating the usability of a system relies
- on empirical testing Q having a sample of users complete tasks using the
- system. While effective, such testing in slow and expensive, and the
- lessons learned can not be easily applied to new designs. A partial
- solution to these limitations is analytic models, which predict aspects of
- usability such as learning time, consistency, and execution time based on
- psychological theory and a description of the task. The talk will overview
- some work on these models and show how they lead to a engineering
- approach to to the cognitive human factors of systems design.
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- Short Bio
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- David Kieras received his PhD in General Experimental Pschology at the
- University of Michigan in 1974, and held a post-doctoral fellowship at
- Carnegie-Mellon University from 1974-1976 where he began his work
- with computational models for reading comprehension of technical text.
- He then joined the Psychology Department at the University of Arizona,
- where in collaboration with Peter Polson at the University of Colorado, he
- began working on computational models for human-computer interaction.
- In 1984 he moved to the University of Michigan and is currently joint-
- appointed in the Technical Communication Program and the Computer
- Science Department.
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