Join us for a discussion with Duane Gran and Nick Laiacona, the developers of JUXTA, a cross-platform tool for collating and analyzing a set of similar digital texts. The user interface is focused on assisting the scholar in identifying key passages that deviate from the norm, be they in the midst of dense textual variance or in sparse isolation. Maintaining clarity between these two perspectives, compounded by N number of texts, presents a complex user interface challenge.
Join us for a discussion with Colette Brown, an information architect and building architect with a background in the three threads that feed website design: computer programming, design, and communication. Her Charlottesville-based company, Colette Brown Associates, is a user experience and web production management consultancy. She has served as IA for more than 50 websites. Colette will give a presentation on the role Information Architects play on a website design team and on the documents they produce. She works from the premise that, just as buildings need blueprints that describe what is to be built, so do websites.
Join us for a development postmortem and interface design review of the Speculative Computing Laboratory's "Ivanhoe Game". Developed right here at UVa's Alderman Library by a team working with professors Jerome McGann and Johanna Drucker, "The Ivanhoe Game" is a pedagogical and critical play experience in which participants are invited to re-write and supplement the texts that comprise and surround works of literature. It implements a sophisticated interface using the Java2D and Swing APIs.
Join us for a question and answer session with UVa's own Dennis Proffitt. Professor Proffitt is director of the undergraduate program in Cognitive Science and of UVa's Perception Lab, where he does research into human spatial perception. Professor Proffitt is the author of countless papers on cognition and a dynamic and involved teacher. We are fortunate to have him as a resource for those interested in interface design.
Join us for the first meeting of the User Interface Roundtable as we discuss the position of interface issues as a university-wide IT priority, exchange development experiences, and consider ways to share knowledge and improve each other's work. The general discussion will lead into a constructive critique of a project many of us are very familiar with - UVa's Instructional Toolkit.
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