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AMS GGD #11 • Lynda Hardman • Designing User Interfaces to Communicate Information Effectively

21 August 2014

Date: Tuesday, 13 September, 2011
Time: 18:30-22:30
Location: Lab111 (Arie Biemondstraat 111, Amsterdam)
Ticket: 20 euros (three course dinner, excluding drinks).
Buying a ticket is possible until: Saturday, 10 September

Abstract

Throughout my career I have worked with computers, not only using them, but developing them to support information tasks. While humans are the ultimate users of machines, there seems to be a communication barrier between those who program computers and those who use them. The main themes of my work have been communicating information using different media – how can information be communicated, and how can computers support this better?

Through most of my career I have been “pulled” into institutes and functions. Only recently have I had to start to “push”. How was I pulled, and why am I now pushing? Can I learn to push more effectively?

Through anecdotes of what I have done in various jobs and roles I hope to give an impression of working for more than 25 years in the rapidly changing world of computing technology.

Speaker Bio

Lynda Hardman is head of the Information Systems department at CWI (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica) and professor by special appointment of Multimedia Interaction in the Informatics Institute at the University of Amsterdam. She obtained her PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 1998, having graduated in Mathematics and Physics from Glasgow University in 1982. During several years of working in the software industry she was the development manager for Guide – the first hypertext authoring system for personal computers (1986).

Her early experiences in industry with the development of hypertext authoring tools inspired her to investigate questions underlying combining time-dependent media (such as video) along with links. She was a member of the W3C working group that developed the first SMIL recommendation, which built on this work.

Since the development of the semantic web, she has worked on improving human access to the ever-expanding ‘open linked data cloud’. Her current research efforts are focused on improving design methods for human-based interfaces in relation to developing technology.

Lynda Hardman’s website.

Photo: Jeroen Oerlemans.

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