IRLIST Digest April 14, 1992 Volume IX, Number 12 Issue 108 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meeting Announcements/Calls for Papers 1. 13th National Computer Conference & Exhibition, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 27 - June 2, 1992. 2. 9th Annual Symposium & Open House: Human-Computer Interaction Lab, Center for Automation Research, U. Maryland, June 5, 1992. II. QUERIES B. Requests for Information 1. Evaluation mechanisms 2. Full-text retrieval and image abstracting; SMART and ZBRWSR 3. More WAIS? ********************************************************** I. NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: NCC13@SAKACS00 Re: The 13th National Computer Conference & Exhibition THE 13TH NATIONAL COMPUTER CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) and the Saudi Computer Society will host the 13th National Computer Conference and Exhibition in Riyadh, on 27/5-2/6, 1413 AH, 21-26 November, 1992 AD. This conference is a continuation of the previous 12 national computer conferences held in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia since 1394 AH, 1974 AD. The General Conference Theme is: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER: The conference Organizing Committee would like to extend its invitation to all scholars to submit original research papers for consid- eration under the following topics: MAIN TOPICS: A - HUMAN ASPECTS 1. Human Computer Interaction 2. Training 3. Legal Aspects 4. Social Aspects 5. Computer Literacy and Education 6. Special Interest Groups B - RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 1. Information Industries 2. Tools and Infrastructures 3. Role of Research 4. Planning and Management Papers on the following topics can also be submitted: 1. Computer Networks 2. VLSI 3. Systems Architecture 4. Software Engineering 5. Artificial Intelligence 6. Data Bases The deadline for submission of the full text of the papers is 26/12/1412 AH (27 June 1992 AD) The notification date for acceptance of refereed full papers is 10/4/1412AH (6 October, 1992 AD). Five copies of each paper should be mailed to the following address: Chairman of Research Committee, The 13th National Computer Conference Directorate of Information Systems King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology (KACST) P.O. Box # 6086, Riyadh 11442, Saudi Arabia A paper should include an abstract of not more than 200 words, and the paper length, including diagrams and tables, should not exceed 15 single-spaced A4 pages. Margins should be approximately 3 cm and the paper should be printed on a high quality printer. References should be numbered in the following format: -Number, author name, title, journal or publisher, volume, number, place and date, page numbers. For more information, please contact: Tel: (9660-1) 481 3273 Fax: (9660-1) 488 3118 E-Mail: NCC13@SAKACS00.BITNET ********** I.A.2. Fr: Ben Shneiderman Re: 9th Annual Symposium & Open House: Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, Center for Automation Research, U. Maryland, June 5, 1992 The Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, a unit of the Center for Automation Research, will hold a Symposium and Open House on Friday June 5, 1992 in celebration of its ninth anniversary. As usual we will serve Birthday cake! We cordially invite you to register and participate. We believe that the ideas and research results will be useful to you and hope that you can help us chart our course for the future. PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT: hosts the Laboratory for Automation Psychology, a part of the HCIL. Our facilities are designed for empirical studies of the human-computer interface and for usability research. Research designs are used to focus on the effects of specific variables (e.g., menu structure) while controlling for nuisance variables (e.g., materials). User's reactions are assessed using the Questionnaire for User Interaction Satisfaction, the QUIS. The QUIS was developed and validated in our lab and is currently being used in dozens of research and usability labs internationally. COLLEGE OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES: pursues research to understand and improve information seeking in electronic environments. As science, business, and government increase their dependence on computing to manage their information resources, our abilities to access, filter, and manipulate this information becomes increasingly important. COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT: During the past year our work in the Department of Computer Science was invigorated by the unifying theme of information visualization and the development of provocative applications in business, information search, medicine, and education. Our earlier successes in hypertext evaluation and high precision touchscreens were extended, while work continued on Programming in the User Interface under the theme of Just-in-Time Programming. A simple task frequency analysis has emerged as the basis for evaluating sequences of screens, layout appropriateness of individual screens, and the design of user interface widgets. Lectures Le Frak Building Room 2205 (new location) 9:00am Welcome: Ben Shneiderman, Azriel Rosenfeld 9:15am Psychology Department Overview: Kent Norman Menus, menus, and more menus: cognitive considerations in selection systems; Kent L. Norman. The effects of spatial attributes of information on human decision-making with a hypertext database; Leslie E. Carter. 10:00am College of Library and Information Services Overview - Gary Marchionini Expertise and full-text searching; Gary Marchionini. Evaluation of the Perseus hypermedia corpus project; Delia Neuman. 10:35am Coffee Break 11:00am Computer Science Department Overview - Ben Shneiderman Remote direct manipulation interfaces: the case of a telepathology workstation; Catherine Plaisant, Dave Carr. Tree-maps for visualizing hierarchical information: concepts and applications; Rick Chimera, Brian Johnson, David Turo. Dynamic queries: direct manipulation database searching; Ben Shneiderman, Chris Williamson. Layout appropriateness: applying simple task frequency descriptions to interface design and evaluation; Andrew Sears. 12:30pm Lunch buffet and Birthday cake! 1:30pm AT&T Teaching Theater: A collaborative classroom An overview of the AT&T Teaching Theater; Walter Gilbert, Ellen Yu. Integrated HyperCourseware for the electronic classroom; Kent L. Norman. Lessons learned from the first year of the AT&T Teaching Theater: an evaluation; Leslie E. Carter. 2:30pm-5:00pm Open House demonstrations and informal discussions Psychology Building * HyperQUIS: The Questionnaire for User Interaction Satisfaction in stackware form; Kent L. Norman * Mole: A foot operated control for the computer cursor when the hands are tied up; Nancy S. Anderson, Glenn Pearson * HCI prototyping and testing: a SuperCard approach to laboratory studies tracking performance using the mouse vs. tablet; Ben Harper, Kent L. Norman * Trying to do two things at once: dual task performance in discrete tracking and classification of pictures; Nancy S. Anderson, Blake Sobiloff Engineering Building * AT&T Teaching Theater: groupware for collaborative learning; Walt Gilbert, Ellen Yu Hornbake Library * Perseus: A hypermedia corpus about the ancient Greek world; Peter Evans * Informal discussion of full-text databases; Gary Marchiononi AV Williams Building * Value bars: information visualization and navigation for multi-attribute listings and tables; Richard Chimera * Tree-maps: a 2-D approach to visualizing hierarchies; Brian Johnson, David Turo * Teleoperation and remote direct manipulation for medical applications; Dave Carr * Just in time programming; Richard Potter * Dynamic Queries: applying direct manipulation and graphical query results to information retrieval; Chris Williamson * Home automation systems; Catherine Plaisant and Custom Command Systems staff MATERIALS: REGISTRANTS WILL RECEIVE THE FOLLOWING: * A 1 hour VHS videotape containing reports on the following HCIL projects: - Dynamic queries for database search - Treemaps for visualizing hierarchies - Three strategies for directory browsing - Filter-Flow for boolean queries - ACCESS at the Library of Congress - The electronic classroom - Remote Direct Manipulation for telepathology - Just-in-time programming * A collection of HCIL technical reports * A full set of visual materials used in the morning lectures. REGISTRATION: Advance registration deadline May 11, 1992 Full fee includes videotape, technical reports, handouts, and lunch buffet, * Advance registration $90 * Late registration $130 University faculty & staff fee includes videotape, technical reports, handouts, and lunch buffet * Advance registration $60 * Late registration $100 A limited number of free registrations without materials or lunch will be granted to full-time undergraduate and graduate students. To make special arrangements for groups from a single organization please apply in writing or e-mail prior to May 11. Since we cannot accept charge cards, purchase orders, or cash, please enclose with your registration your check made payable to: The University of Maryland. Registration is valid only upon arrival of your check. Please include Name________________________ and Address________________________ ________________________ ________________________ Parking Permit: Please enclose a self addressed stamped envelope with your registration by May 11, 1992 to receive ___a map and/or _____a parking permit. Permits are unavailable after May 11,1992. Mail to: HCIL, c/o Teresa Casey; AV Williams Building; University of Maryland; College Park, MD 20742-3255; e-mail tcasey@cs.umd.edu ********************************************************** II. QUERIES II.B.1. Fr: Geraldo Xexeo Re: Evaluation Mechanisms I am interested in evaluating a a full-text retrieval system, that interface are simple keywords with "and", but not "or". The system work in 3 phases: make question (VM/CMS command line), a menu appear with the finds, select interesting find. There are around 3000 documents and I have some liberty to do experiments with the classification methodology of 350 of them (the documentation of a library of programs). I cannot change the interface and would like not to change the retrieval method. So, one can understand that the experience will be in the comparision of different methodologies for keyword generation in a *real* environment. Of course the classic measures (Recall,Precision,Cost,etc...) can give me some ways of comparision, but since we will be making changes to the program in the *real* environment, without telling our users, we think we can get some different data without asking for feedback. Does someone know of analysing the interest of the user in some retrieved document without asking him explicitly? In our case, the first idea is to analyse the time the user expand reading a document, and see if it changes with modifications of the system. Thanks for your ideas, Jerry Geraldo Xexeo |internet: xexeo@dxlaa.cern.ch| "Cristo Redentor, CERN - PPE Division|bitnet: gxexeo@cernvm.bitnet| Bracos abertos sobre a 1211 Geneve 23 |decnet: vxcern::xexeo | Guanabara... Switzerland |FAX: (41) (22) 785 - 0207 | Rio, eu gosto de voce!" ********** II.B.2 Fr: Steve Re: Full-text retrieval and image abstracting; SMART and ZBRWSR I am doing a project on full-text retrieval and image archiving and retrieval. I have heard of freely-available systems like SMART and ZBRWSR but have been unable to locate these using the ARCHIE database or otherwise. Any information on these or similar programs would be greatly appreciated. Also, does anyone have archives of this list? Thanks, Steve (csn201lawren@qut.edu.au) ********** II.B.3. Fr: Bruce Barnett Re: Other packages like WAIS available? I am trying to help someone locate public-domain packages similar to the WAIS package. This would be used to implement an information retrieval system that would eventually become part of a project. They are not interested in commercial solutions at this time. Does anyone have any leads? any FTP sites? 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