Advance Program - Tutorial

6. Scenario-Based Usability Engineering

Sunday, 08:30 - 17:00

Instructors
John M. Carroll, Mary Beth Rosson, Virginia Tech, USA

Benefits
You will learn about the interdisciplinary history and foundations of scenario-based design. You will learn an iterative, scenario-based development methodology.

Origins
This tutorial is new for CHI 2000.

Features

• General analysis of why and how scenarios are effective design tools
• Example project walk-through
• Interactive exercises

Audience
This tutorial is especially appropriate for software developers, user interface designers, usability engineers, and project managers seeking a broad, methods-oriented introduction to scenario-based design. It is also appropriate for those who are already experienced with scenario-based methods, and interested in an integrative methodology.

Presentation
Brief lecture segments followed by project walkthroughs and interactive exercises.

Instructors
John M. Carroll is Director of the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech. His recent books include Scenario-Based Design: Envisioning Work and Technology in System Design (John Wiley, 1995), Design Rationale: Concepts, Techniques and Use (with Tom Moran; Erlbaum, 1996), and Making Use: Scenario-Based Design of Human-Computer Interactions (MIT Press, 2000). Mary Beth Rosson is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. She is author of Instructor's Guide to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications, along with numerous articles, book chapters, and tutorials. She is General Chair of OOPSLA 2000.