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Benefits: Card sorting has a number of effective applications in user interface design, but it often fails to get the attention it deserves. This half-day hands-on tutorial introduces an innovative range of techniques to maximum the benefits of card sorting. These range from the use of barcodes to expedite the data capture from paper card sorts through to new methods of analysis that extend and complement traditional approaches such as cluster analysis.

Origins: The tutorial portion course has been presented to public and corporate audiences in the UK, including the UK Usability Professionals’ Association, the Scottish UPA and HCI 2006. It was presented at a PHICHI event in Philadelphia in September 2007. It is part of the conference program for HCI 2007. It includes material from the author’s column in interactions magazine.

Features: On completion of this tutorial you will be able to: - choose an appropriate card sorting method - explain cluster analysis and dendograms to colleagues and clients - apply appropriate techniques for getting the best information from participants and the resulting data - perform quick and reliable data capture

Audience: Web and intranet designers, information architects, usability and HCI professionals interested in the practical application of card sorting. No specialist skills or knowledge are required. PRESENTATION: The course is approximately 30% tutorials and 70% practical card-sorting activities or group discussions.

William Hudson, MSc, Mem ACM, Mem UPA,

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Biography
William Hudson consults, writes and teaches in the fields of user-centred design and usability. He has over 30 years experience in the development of interactive systems, initially with a background in software engineering. William was the product and user interface designer for the Emmy-award-winning "boujou"; now an indispensible tool in many film studios. He has specialized in interaction design and human-computer interaction since the late 1980's. William has written and taught courses which have been presented to hundreds of software and web developers, designers and managers in the UK, North America and Europe. He is the founder and principal consultant of Syntagm, a consultancy specializing in the design of interactive systems established in 1985.

William was the product and user interface designer for 2d3's boujou, a revolutionary new software package for the special effects industry which has been praised for its ease of use. Boujou allows computer special effects to be merged with live film footage with little or no manual intervention, creating some challenging user interface deign issues for providing optimal user guidance. Boujou has been used in a number of major films including Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Harry Potter, the Italian Job, Lara Croft and The Matrix Reloaded. Boujou itself won an Emmy Award in 2002. Other projects have included interaction design and evaluation for Ansbacher Bank, Harcourt Education, Jato Dynamics, Rational Software, Reuters, Smart Card Integrations and Vicon Motion Systems.

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Nuria Oliver, PhD

Title: Perceptual Intelligence: Smart Spaces, Users and Cars

In my talk I will provide an overview of the concept of Perceptual Intelligence, i.e. the development of systems that can perceive their environment, recognize what is happening around them and act accordingly. I will present some of the projects that are representative of my research in this area: a real-time system to recognize facial expressions (LAFTER), a visual surveillance system to recognize human interactions, a smart car, an intelligent office that can recognize office activities (S-SEER), a mobile-based sleep apnea monitoring system (HealthGear) and a personal trainer on your mobile phone (TripleBeat).

Biography
Dr. Nuria Oliver is working to build computational models of human behavior via perceptually intelligent systems, with the goal of having computers that are able to perceive, recognize what they are perceiving, and react accordingly. Dr. Oliver also researches smart environments, context awareness, statistical machine learning, artificial intelligence, health monitoring, and human computer interaction. Previously, Nuria worked as a research assistant at the MIT Media Lab in the perceptual computing section, as a visiting scientist at GMD FIRST in Germany, as a research engineer at Telefonica R&D, and as a research assistant engineer at Siemens. She has received a number of awards, including the TR100 Young Innovators Award in 2004, and the First Spanish Award of EECS graduates. Nuria has been a technology writer for Tecno2000 magazine and El Pais newspaper, and her work has been featured on multiple newspapers, magazines, radio and TV stations both in Spain and the U.S.

Since the end of Nov. 2006, Nuria is the Scientific Director for the Multimedia Research Team at Telefonica R&D in Barcelona, Spain.

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