B U C K C H I

The Central Ohio area Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (Forming)

First meeting:
Tuesday, March 26th, 1996 7:00-8:30pm
Featured Speaker:
Robert Abbott from Ignition, Inc.

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March Meeting Announcement

BuckCHI-interested folks:

This is our official first meeting announcement. We are scheduled to meet on Wednesday, the 26th of this month at CompuServe's Arlington Centre building in the Lecture Hall (directions below). Times for the meeting will be 7pm to 8:30, or longer so that prospective members can have any questions addressed by the BuckCHI officers after the talk.

Our organizational business is planned to take about half an hour, and our featured speaker for the evening will speak for approximately one hour. The featured speaker will be Robert Abbott from Ignition, Inc. who will be giving a very interesting multimedia presentation on a visual design case that he's worked on.

Speaker:
Robert Abbott
Title:
Homegrown Tomatoes
Abstract:
The communication-oriented design aesthetic seen in graphic design, industrial design, and architecture can be applied very successfully to graphical user interfaces, data displays and multimedia documents. This presentation highlights a number of design principles to help counter and reduce errors that commonly occur in products. Points are illustrated with examples drawn from throughout the designed world, with an emphasis on the human-computer interface domain.

OCLC Usability Lab: Thursday 3/28/96 @ 7:30am

We want to inform the BuckCHI community about the following presentation: Mike Prasse from OCLC is giving a talk on "How to Make Software Usable" on Thursday, March 28 from 7:30 am to 9:00 am at the OCLC usability lab.

This presentation is sponsored by the ITC, the Industry and Technology Council of Central Ohio. More information will be available at the BuckCHI meeting.


Directions to CompuServe - Arlington

Map to CompuServe

From the east: take the Henderson Rd. Exit from Rt. 315 and go left at the stoplight. Go past Kenney and Reed. CompuServe will be on your left half a mile past Reed. Turn into Arlington Centre just before the Beneficial Building. The entrance will be 100 yards down Arlington Centre on your left.

From the west: take Sawmill south to Henderson and go left. You will see the Beneficial building on your right, and take the first right as you near this building. CompuServe will be on the left-hand side of Arlington Centre Dr.

Park in front of the atrium, and enter through the main entrance. The lecture hall is to the left of the entrance.


Questions?

Questions, concerns, comments? Send an E-mail to Kevin De Laere (kdelaere@csi.compuserve.com) or phone 538-3522.