Jan Borchers
Universities of Darmstadt and Ulm
Interaction Design for New Media: A Pattern Approach
October 10, 2000
The plethora of emerging new media technologies, from the
World-Wide Web to immersive virtual realities, to e-books and
ubiquitous, invisible information appliances, requires HCI experts
more than ever to work together with software engineers and users
in an interdisciplinary team in order to create appropriate new
interaction designs. A major problem in these teams is communication.
This talk proposes a new, unified framework that uses "pattern
languages", a concept adopted from architecture, to model
experience in the human-computer interaction, software engineering,
and application domain of interactive software projects. This
creates a "lingua franca" for everybody involved in
the design process.
The talk will include a demonstration of some of the interactive
exhibits, such as "Personal Orchestra", "Virtual
Vienna", or "WorldBeat", that were designed by
the author using this approach.
For more information about this approach, see the recent DIS
2000 paper, "A
Pattern Approach to Interaction Design", available at
Dr. Jan Borchers
works as computer science researcher and lecturer in Human-Computer
Interaction for New Media at the Universities of Darmstadt and
Ulm in Germany. He holds a Ph.D. with first-class honors from
Darmstadt University of Technology for his work on a pattern-based
approach to interaction design.
He has designed and lead the development of interactive systems
since 1995, including "Personal Orchestra" which lets
users conduct the Vienna Philharmonic, the "Virtual Vienna"
3-D city tour (both for a large museum in Vienna), and the award-winning
interactive music exhibit, "WorldBeat" (presented,
for example, at CHI'97).
He received his M.Sc. in Computer Science with first-class
honors from the University of Karlsruhe in Germany in 1995, after
studying in Karlsruhe and at Imperial College, University of
London, with emphasis on human-computer interaction, computer
graphics, connectionism, and educational theory.
He has authored papers for journals such as IEEE Multimedia,
Computers & Graphics, and the SIGCHI Bulletin, and presented
his work at CHI, DIS, IEEE ICMCS, HCI International, WWW, and
other conferences. He participated in workshops about issues
such as wearable computing, electronic books, and HCI patterns,
and co-organized HCI patterns workshops at INTERACT'99 and CHI'00.
His book, A Pattern Approach to Interaction Design, is
the first to deal with HCI patterns in detail, to appear with
John Wiley & Sons in 2000.
Jan Borchers is a member of ACM and its special interest group
in computer-human interaction (SIGCHI), and the German Computer
Science Society (GI) and its software ergonomics group. He can
be reached at ; see
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