Meeting Agenda

September 5, 2001

Location:

DC1302

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Patrick Gilhuly

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

Bill Cowan

Coffee hour this week:

Vincent Ma

Coffee hour next week:

????

3. Next meeting

Date:

Wednesday, September 12, 2001

Location:

DC1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Rafal Jaroszkiewicz

Technical presentation:

Patrick Gilhuly

4. Forthcoming

Chair:

1. Daniel Koch (September 19)
2. Tim Lahey (September 26)
3. Josée Lajoie (October 3)

Tech Presenters:

1. Ian Bell (September 19)
2. Rafal Jaroszkiewicz (September 26)
3. Daniel Koch (October 6)

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Margaret Dulat

Title: The Design of Everyday Things

Abstract: I will discuss Donald Norman's excellent text about designing things that people interact with, and from which I've stolen the title for my talk. It's an excellent overview of the problems of many tools we use and how designers can avoid them. If you're ever going to be even remotely involved in designing something that people will use (e.g. user interfaces), you should read this book.

6. General Discussion Items

• Images for CGL agendas.

7. Action List

• September 6th, 2.00pm, Open house for new grad students.

8. Conferences

• UIST 2001 (November 11-14th, Orlando, Florida)
  • New this year - Interface Design Contest
  
  (design unique interface to a real-time game and then play the game against others at the conference)
  • Conference Homepage - http://www.acm.org/uist/
• Graphics Interface 2002
  • paper deadline: November 18, 2001

9. Director's Meeting

10. Seminars

11. Lab Cleanup

• Now with 20% more cleaning.