Summer School 2011
Photo by Böhringer
Our DFG-sponsored PhD program at the University of Konstanz conducts a weeklong
- Summerschool "Explorative Analysis and Visualization of Large Information Spaces"
- 04. October - 07. October 2011
- San Vigilio, South Tyrol, Italy
The summerschool contains tutorials and workshops on
- Putting the user in the loop - Methods and techniques from an HCI perspective by Prof. Dr. Harald Reiterer and other members of the HCI group (University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany)
This year the summerschool is also open for interested computer science students from all other universities, see below.
Watch what we did on last year's summerschool.
date
- 04. October - 07. October 2011
location
- San Vigilio, South Tyrol, Italy
- Hotel Carmen
special opportunity for advanced students in computer science
This year we support our program with funding specifically for advanced female master or diploma students in computer science, in order to encourage young people to consider a career in engineering by entering a PhD program like ours. Our funds cover- travel costs,
- accommodation,
- food (full board)
Therefore we invite the best and interested students, that are advanced or have a completed CS master degree not from before October 2010, to apply for participation at our summerschool this year. If you like to participate, please send us your application as a single(!) PDF to gksekr[at]uni-konstanz.de covering the following topics:
- Your bachelor/prediploma degree certificates OR your master/diploma degree certificates and the transcripts reflecting courses taken and grades achieved,
- your curriculum vitae,
- an abstract of your master thesis including name of your advisor OR your field of interest for planned master thesis.
- Applications are accepted until no places are left.
Voices from past summer schools
- Denise says:
I took part in the summerschool in 2009 and enjoyed the program very much.
Learning about different topics in the tutorials and workshops and getting
in touch with the doctoral students and their research in the University of
Konstanz was very enriching. The week allowed me to have a better view of
how a PhD study at the university works, the interesting computer science
projects going on there and of course, the people behind them. Being able to
have a little participation myself, taking part at the poster session with
the other invited master students allowed me to discuss my previous work and
to learn a few things as well. I also can't forget to mention the leisure
activities! They provided a nice opportunity to get to know the participants
better and a good way to spend the time outside the conference room. It was
a very interesting (and fun) week.
tutorials
-
Putting the user in the loop - Methods and techniques from an HCI perspective
- Prof. Dr. Harald Reiterer and other members of the HCI group, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
tutorial descriptions
-
Putting the user in the loop - Methods and techniques from an HCI perspective
by Prof. Dr. Harald Reiterer and other members of the HCI group
- The tutorial starts with a short introduction why it is important to put the user in the loop when designing interactive systems. A presentation is given on the importance of usability and user experience goals for the design (Part I) and the evaluation (Part II) of interactive systems. We will discuss main usability and user experience goals in detail and how they can be measured. General design principles and guidelines that should be followed during the design of interactive systems are introduced briefly. We will place focus on some selected methods and techniques that are part of the Usability Engineering lifecycle. A practical break out session allows gaining hands-on experience with some specific techniques for generating and evaluating ideas. Part II will cover an introduction into usability evaluation. To start off, we will provide an overview of commonly applicable methods, followed by an outline of a comprehensive evaluation study. This will focus on planning and conducting a study and emphasize a variety of practical topics. During the practical break out session the members of the tutorial will have the opportunity to develop a typical test setting for an experiment. The test setting will be subject to discussion to investigate their advantages and drawbacks afterwards.
information for participants
- Participants who are supposed to create a poster please follow these guidelines: Poster Checklist