Language Technology Seminar Series

Title: Task analysis and Usability Engineering

Speaker: Sandrine Balbo

Location: ICT Building, L2.06

Date: Thursday, 22 April 2004

Time: 1-2pm

Abstract:

In this talk, Sandrine will present her research to date. She focuses on usability engineering within the human-computer interaction field to improve quality and usability of interfaces for professional software, web applications or wireless devices. Her main research interest has been on the theme of task analysis and the exploitation of task models. Her main contribution in this area is to apply and expand on task modelling notations, including within the Isolde project at CSIRO, an integrated software development and document generation environment that supports technical authors in the production of on-line help.

Bio:

Sandrine is a lecturer in the Department of Information Systems and a member of the Interaction Design Group. Prior to working in Melbourne, Sandrine worked as an information architect in London for over a year and as a research scientist in Sydney for six years, in the team lead by Cecile Paris.

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