Alan Dix

Professor Computing Department Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK alan@hcibook.com		send a virtual cracker! now on facebook too

	HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION third edition ALAN DIX - JANET FINLAY - GREGORY ABOWD - RUSSELL BEALE

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keynote: Tasks = data + action + context: automated task assistance through data-oriented analysis, at Engineering Interactive Systems 2008, Pisa, Italy, 25-26 Sept. 2008.
keynote: As We May Code - The art (and craft) of computer programming in the 21st century. keynote at PPIG08 – The 20th Annual Psychology of Programming Interest Group Conference. Lancaster University, UK. 10–12 September 2008..
masterclass: From Formalism to Physicality part of UPC North: Understanding People and Computers, UCLanc, Preston, 30th April 2008.
invited talk: Designing for adoption and designing for appropriation, University of Technology of Berlin, 12th Feb 2008
panel keynote: at Social Technologies Summit part of FutureSonic2007, Manchester, May 2007.
keynote: the brain and the web - intelligent interactions from the desktop to the world, at Simpósio de Fatores Humanos em Sistemas Computacionais (IHC 2006), Natal Brazil, 19-22 Nov. 2006.
I'll be at Misuse and Abuse of Interactive Technologies and Designing for Collective Remembering at CHI 2006, Montreal, 22nd and 23 April 2006
invited talk: insider/outsider orientation of place and signage and systolic flows, at Design and Non-Place Workshop, Edinburgh University, 29-30 June 2005.
keynote: incidental interaction, at 1st workshop on 'New Paradigms in Interaction Design'. FTW, Vienna, 10th June 2005. Followed by interview and article in der Standard.
tutorial; Understanding Statistics, at Designing for Usability in eScience, National E-Science Centre, 8th June 2005.
keynote: experimentation,validation and evaluation, at 3rd UK-UbiNet Workshop: Designing, evaluating and using ubiquitous computing systems. University of Bath, 9-11 February 2005.
keynote Paths and Patches - patterns of geognosy and gnosis, at Second Workshop on Spaces, Spatiality and Technology Napier University, Edinburgh, 13-14 December 2004.
keynote at Interacción 2004: Physicality, rationality and imagination, Lleida, España, 5-7th May 2004.
invited talk European HCI Theory - a uniquely disparate perspective. at European HCI Research special area CHI 2004, Vienna, Austria, 24-29 April 2004
keynote Controversy and Provocation at 7th HCI Educators? Workshop, Preston, UK, 1-2 April 2004
keynote (stand in!) at OZCHI 2003: getting physical, Brisbane, Australia, 26-28 Nov 2003.
speaking at The e-Learning Experience: deconstructing the experience of (e)learning for delivery ecologies. Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, 15th October 2003
interview on "2010", RTP channel 2 (Portugese TV science and technology programme), 12th October 2003
invited talk the interface just left the desktop. Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal. 26th September 2003.
Preston, UK, 1st-3rd July 2003
keynote at Interaction Design and Children 2003 (IDC2003): Being Playful – learning from children, Preston, UK, 1st-3rd July 2003
awarded Honorary Fellowship at University of Gloucestershire, 7th November 2002
keynote at Tamodea2002: Managing the Ecology of Interaction. Bucharest, Romania, 18-19th July 2002
keynote on teaching innovation, e-learning etc. at Excellence in Education and Training convention. Singapore Polytechnic, 17th May 2002
panelist in workshop on Homopolybots: Building Modular Humans. part of performance artist Stelarc's visit to Lancaster, 8-10th May 2002

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Toys for the Boys or Jobs for the Girls. Distinguished Guest Lecture. BCS Cheltenham and Gloucester Branch. 2.15pm Wed. 14th Nov. 2001, CGCHE, Cheltenham, UK.

Cyber-economies and the Real World. keynote at SAICSIT'2001 - South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Annual Conference. Pretoria, 25-28 September 2001.
.... and while I'm in South Africa for SAICSIT ... Kruger vfridge - animals and things at Kruger park 14-16 Sept. 2001

The original PIE paper is now online. Other older papers added recently: Non-determinism as a paradigm for understanding the user interface (1990), Analysis of user behaviour as time series (1992), Formal Methods chapter from Perspectives in HCI (1995), Dynamic pointers and threads (1995). I try to add older papers whenever I get requests for reprints and have the original source available.

The 2002 International Mathematical Olympiad will be held in Glasgow, UK.
I've written a few of my personal recollections of the 1978 Olympiad in Romania.

visit meandeviation.com including my statistic tutorial pages (including full tutorial notes and annotated booklist)

you can try out coin tossing experiments on-line (needs Netscape 3 or higher)

you can also see my other tutorials on topics including groupware, formal methods in HCI, virtual reality and various UNIX and networking short courses

many of my turorials have full or partial notes online and demos to download or run

notes from my short courses on Unix Systems Programming and UNIX Network Programming with TCP/IP are now available as PDF files

the full proceedings of the Active Web conference are available online

also you can read my paper of the same name.

new pages on PopuNET and the ecology of information

Loads of new and old papers online - see my publications list.

I've added a visualisation page to my research topics including an example of interactive stacking histograms (needs Java).

My time pages include an on-line version of my 1987 paper The Myth of the Infinitely Fast Machine and the full proceedings of the British HCI Group Meeting on Time and the Web.

Inspired by Schrödinger's cat I have devised an experiment in which Charm the Quantum Dog is locked in a room with cyanide yet survives. (additional content on 10/8/97)

Ever wondered why scrollbars are on the right-hand side? Hands across the screen is a short paper looking at this and some related issues.

The text of my 1990 INTERACT paper Information processing, context and privacy is online. (I know, it took me 6 years to do it!)

... and in case you're wondering about Magisoft Wand

Things I do

On the EPSRC Computing College.

Executive Committee member the British HCI Group executive.

Various conference/workshop committees including: Doctoral Consortium of HCI'2004, programme committee AVI2004, EHCI-DSVIS'04, MobileHCI04 TIDSE 2004, co-organisor CHI 2004 workshop on Time Design, more ...

See also things I've done - a mini-CV and my research topics page.

Books

A. J. Dix (1991).
Formal Methods for Interactive Systems.
Academic Press.
table of contents

A. Dix, J. Finlay, G. Abowd and R. Beale (1998).
Human-Computer Interaction, second edition.
Prentice Hall.
second edition out NOW
the HCI book web site has full contents, answers to exercises, full text search of the entire book and other useful links and information

M. A. R. Kirby, A. J. Dix and J. E. Finlay, Eds. (1995).
People and Computer X - Proceedings of the HCI'95 Conference.
Cambridge University Press.

J. Finlay and A. Dix (1996).
An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence.
UCL Press / Taylor and Francis, ISBN 1-85728-399-6.

A. J. Dix and R. Beale, Eds. (1996).
Remote cooperation: CSCW issues for mobile and tele-workers.
Springer Verlag, ISBN 3-540-76035-0.

Publications

Full List (most recent papers available online): 1985-1989, 1990-1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004

Publications in agricultural engineering: 1982-1986

Contact details

   Professor Alan Dix
 
   Computing Department
   Lancaster University
   Lancaster,  UK
   LA1 4YR  
   

   email:   dixa@comp.lancs.ac.uk  (University)
            alan@hcibook.com       (other)

   url:     http://www.hiraeth.com/alan/ (personal)
            http://www.hcibook.com/      (HCI textbook)