Palestrantes

Mary Czerwinski
Regina Bernhaupt

Painel

Marcelo Soares Pimenta
Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza
Maria Cecilia Calani Baranauskas
Raquel de Oliveira Prates

Regina Bernhaupt (keynote speaker)

Assistant Professor University of Salzburg

ICT&S Center, Sigmund-Haffner-Gasse 18, 5020 - Salzburg, Austria

Biography

Regina Bernhaupt is currently working as assistant professor at the HCI Unit of the ICT&S-Center, working on her habilitation in the area of usability evaluation methods. She holds a masters degree in psychology and in computer science from the Salzburg University. In 2002 she finished her technical dissertation in computer science in the field of intelligent systems (time coded artificial neural networks). She teaches programming courses, user interface techniques and design and human-computer interaction at the Salzburg University and the applied university of Salzburg. She is leading several projects in the area of home entertainment (interactive TV, games, new ways of entertainment) and is responsible for new forms of usability and user experience evaluation in various contexts like mobile interfaces and ambient technologies.

Lecture

Evaluating Usability and User Experience in Non-Traditional Environments

The keynote will focus on the difficulties of how to evaluate and investigate usability and user experiences in non-traditional environments. Giving examples from living room entertainment, mobile tourist guides, games development and multimodal interfaces for air-traffic control the different challenges in evaluation for HCI researchers are demonstrated. After presenting a more general framework, some solutions on how to adopt methods for these challenges are presented: playful probing, creative cultural probing, in field usability studies, games as tools for evaluation.