Usability Aspects of Hypermedia Systems

Deutsche Version

Date: October 1st, 2009

Location: University of Potsdam/Germany, Room 0.64

Registration: Please register for the main conference

Keynote speaker: Prof. Dr. phil. Eva-Maria Jakobs, RWTH Aachen

The workshop is organized as part of this year’s Conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL)), hosted by the Applied Computational Linguistics group in the Department of Linguistics at Potsdam University. The GLDV Working Group on Hypermedia is offering a one-day workshop dedicated to usability aspects for hypermedia systems and applications in the E-Humanities (corpus retrieval frontends, web information systems, community grids etc.). Suggested topics include but are not limited to:

  • Web design and usability in the E-Humanities: Context, productivity/performance, and acceptance
  • (Multimodal) reception research: Methods and test procedures
  • Visualization, navigation, and orientation in complex information systems
  • Interactive and collaborative aspects of hypermedia systems
  • Standards and guidelines on software ergonomics, user-oriented design, and accessibility

Since Jakob Nielsen pointed out the main criteria for user-friendly hypermedia systems - Easy to learn, efficient to use, easy to remember, few errors, pleasant to use - in the mid-nineties, usability research is engaged in the statistical investigation and empiric validation of ranking methods. One goal is the improvement of usability on the internet, currently focusing on up-to-date topics like Web 2.0 and multimodal interfaces. The goal of this workshop is to create a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in hypermedia systems in the context of natural language processing. By offering paper presentations (30 min.) and discussion panels, we hope to stimulate and facilitate an active exchange on unique and interdisciplinary ideas, practices, and methods.

The workshop features English or German paper presentations and extended demos. Authors are invited to send abstracts which may not exceed two pages of text via email to one of the organizers. All submissions will be peer-reviewed (please place author’s name and affiliation on a separate page for anonymous review). The final papers are limited to 12 pages, including figures and literature. They will appear in a special issue of "SDV - Sprache und Datenverarbeitung/International Journal for Language Data Processing".

Program

10:30 - 11:15Eva-Maria Jakobs (Aachen): Des Nutzers Lust und Frust. Nutzungsaspekte hypermedialer Systeme - Bewertungskriterien und -verfahren [Handout]
11:15 - 11:45Jacquelijn Ringersma, Alex Dukers, Alex Koenig, Claus Zinn, Paul Trilsbeek (Nijmegen): Eureka! User friendly access to the MPI linguistic data archive [Presentation]
11:45 - 12:15Christina Alexandris (Athens): User-Oriented Design for a Morphologically-Based Transcription Module processing Emotionally and Socio-culturally Marked Elements in Spoken Journalistic Texts [Presentation]
 Lunch break
13:00 - 13:30Verena Lyding (Bolzano): Usability engineering for corpus query tools: Evaluating the use of visualizations [Presentation]
13:30 - 14:00Achim Gasch (Mannheim): DGD 2.0: A Web-based Navigation Platform for the Visualization, Presentation and Retrieval of German Speech Corpora [Presentation]
14:00 - 14:30Petra Kubina (Bielefeld), Hannah Reuter (Frankfurt/Oder): Zur Umsetzungsproblematik webbasierter Barrierefreiheit im Kontext von Forschung und Lehre [Presentation]
14:30 - 15:00Michael Dreusicke (Berlin), Martin Wolpers (Sankt Augustin), Uwe Kirschenmann (Sankt Augustin): Entwicklung einer dynamischen und offenen Lernumgebung anhand von PAUX

Program Committee

Organization Committee

Important dates

  • Submission of abstracts: July 10th, 2009
  • Notification of acceptance: July 31st, 2009
  • Final paper submission: September 11th, 2009