Advance Program - Tutorial

8. Usage-Centered Design: Practical Abstract Modeling with Use Cases

Sunday, 08:30 - 17:00

Instructors
Larry Constantine, University of Technology, Australia
Lucy Lockwood, Constantine & Lockwood, USA

Benefits
You will learn advantages of abstract models for UI design, especially performance support and task-centered applications, task modeling with essential use cases and user roles, and abstract prototyping. You will also gain experience applying abstract models systematically.

Origins
Newly revised; earlier tutorials include OZCHI 98 and TorCHI.

Features

• Model driven process overview
• Understanding user-system relationships with user roles
• Advantages of essential use cases over concrete use cases and scenarios
• Constructing and simplifying use cases
• Prototyping with abstract content and navigation models
• Designing from abstract models

Audience
Professionals with direct responsibility in usability and UI design, including designers, usability specialists, and developers, as well as managers, academics, and researchers. Assumes basic knowledge/experience in usability and UI design.

Presentation
Multimedia, demonstrations, individual and small group exercises.

Instructors
Larry Constantine is a Professor of Computing Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney, and a software engineering pioneer. He is also the author of several books and articles, chair of the Software Development Conference, and an editorial advisor to IEEE Software, CACM, and others. Lucy Lockwood, President of Constantine & Lockwood, has 15 years design and development experience. She is the UI track chair for the Software Development Conference, and is on advisory boards of Performance Support and other conferences.