* * Note time and date THURSDAY at 1:30 pm in C154 * * 

                        * *  USABILTY DAY * * 

		      UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
		 COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM

			      presents

                        "What Do Users Want?"

                         Prof. Antony Unwin
                    (University of Augsburg, Germany) 


                       1 March 2007 (Thursday)

                         Lecture Theatre C154 
		      Hatfield, College Lane Campus
		           1:30 - 2:30 pm

	       Coffee/tea and biscuits will be available.
			  [Catering Permitting]

		    Everyone is Welcome to Attend
			  [Space Permitting]



Abstract:

The standard of Graphical User Interfaces is not high.  It might be
better if users were asked what they wanted (and if they knew what
they wanted).  This talk looks at ideas for GUIs for data
visualization software with the help of Harry Beck, Hieronymous
Bosch, and the Mondrian software.  Data from 60,000 movies in the
Internet Movie Database will be used as an example.


About the Speaker:

Antony Unwin is Professor of Computer-Oriented Statistics and Data
Analysis at the University of Augsburg.  He is interested in data
analysis and visualization.  He is joint author of the recent book
"Graphics of Large Datasets: How to Visualize a Million" (Springer:
2006).  Members of his group have developed several interactive
software packages for graphical data analysis (the Augsburg
Impressionists: Manet, Van Gogh, Klimt, Gauguin, Mondrian, ...) and
three have won the international Chambers award for statistical
software.  See also: http://rosuda.org/~unwin/


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