Advance Program - Tutorial

26. Interface Design for Interactive TV: New Possibilities, Techniques, and Metrics

Monday, 08:30 - 17:00

Instructors
Eric Gould, Nick West, MONKEYmedia, USA

Benefits

• You will explore new design possibilities for interactive broadband - both streaming video on the web and interactive television
• Learn how designing interactive video is qualitatively different than designing static screens.
• See why applying old metrics of success may lead to poor results.
• Understand new design options for interactive TV

Origins
This tutorial is new for CHI 2000.

Audience
The tutorial will interest a wide spectrum of CHI attendees: designers currently considering work in interactive broadband; teachers and project managers; and general designers.

Features

• Evaluating user experience for interactive TV
• How current interactive TV standards affect UI design
• New interface controls for interactive TV
• Specific new design techniques

Presentation
Brief lectures, small group exercises in specific design techniques, and two large group brainstorms to explore new design territory.

Instructors
Eric Gould, MONKEYmedia's CEO, has designed award-winning human-computer interfaces since 1984, published numerous articles on the subject, and has been granted U.S. patents for cutting-edge techniques. Communication Arts recently described Gould as "one of the most thoughtful and provocative interface and interaction designers working in the field." Nick West, MONKEYmedia's Advanced Technology Director, has spent over ten years researching new media at Apple, Paramount, New York University, and the Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro. HotWired dubbed him "the man behind the curtain in the multimedia industry for the past decade."