Prof. Dr. Christian Stary

Embedded Design Space Analysis:
Contextual User-Interface Design for Open User Groups

Although a variety of concepts has been developed to implement user interfaces that serve a variety of end users, there is still a lack of techniques applicable for the structured development of this type of user interfaces. The presentation deals with the E-DSA (Embedded Design Space Analysis) technique. It has been developed in the course of a research and development project bringing together interactive-software and industrial designers. Based on a common design space, it suggests to gather design options and structure the design process through a formal decision making procedure, hence increasing the maintainability of design solutions and products this way. The conceptual framework and procedure will be detailed and exemplified in the presentation.



 
Speaker:     Prof. Dr. Christian Stary,
             Communications Engineering
             Department of Business Information Systems
             University of Linz

When:        Friday, 12th January 2001, 2:15 pm

Where:       HS 3, University of Klagenfurt

Note:        The talk will be given in German.

Handouts:    Available in MS Powerpoint format.


Christian Stary is currently full professor in Business Informatics at the Department of Business Information Systems, Communications Engineering Division, University of Linz. He did his PhD in Computer Science at the Vienna University of Technology in 1988. He has spent some years in industry before joining the university system. His focus is on the development of interactive systems, in particular web and usability engineering. Current research targets are e-learning and e-teaching as well as knowledge management in design processes.