[chisigmail] IDG Seminar: Design and evaluation of ambient displays - Xiaobin Shen

[Imalka Nilma Perera]

(apologies for cross posting)

You are cordially invited to the IDG Seminar ...


PRESENTER: Xiaobin Shen

TITLE: Design and evaluation of ambient displays

VENUE: University of Melbourne, IDEA LAB, level 4, 111 Barry Street,
Carlton

DATE and TIME: Friday 8th August  2008, 3-4 pm
 

ABSTRACT:
Ambient displays are a part of the ubiquitous computing dream, which was
first mentioned by Mark Weiser. Weiser believed that computing resources
should be distributed throughout our everyday environment, rather than being
confined to a desktop workstation. A partial answer can be found in ambient
displays, which integrate information into people's everyday environment.
The key problem of evaluating just how effectively this is done, however, is
still unsolved and will be addressed in this talk.

In my PhD thesis, I systematically divided the evaluation of ambient
displays into "intrusive" and "non-intrusive evaluations". Intrusive
evaluation is where the user is consciously aware of the evaluation
experiment. This is not so in non-intrusive evaluation. For each evaluation
style, the evaluation dimensions and their related attributes, evaluation
criteria and evaluation techniques are accordingly introduced. Furthermore,
I conducted four case studies by applying these two evaluation styles.

BIO:
Xiaobin Shen completed his PhD in the School of Information Technology,
University of Sydney, 2006 (Supervised by Prof. Peter Eades). In May 2006 he
was appointed as a research fellow at the University of Melbourne. His
research interest is in the areas of information visualization,
human-computer interaction and biomedical engineering.


Please forward to others if interested. All are Welcome.
http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/research/groups/interactiondesign/seminars.htm
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Cheers
Nilma 
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 Nilma Perera
 PhD Candidate 
 Interaction Design Group
 Department of Information Systems
 The University of Melbourne
 VIC 3010

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