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Affordances*
The term affordance was first coined by the perceptual psychologist James J. Gibson (1979). There have been a number of attempts to adapt his concept to HCI.
Formative and Summative Evaluation*
Scriven (1967) first coined the terms formative and summative evaluation in the context of curriculum evaluation.
Memex*
In an article published in The Atlantic Monthly in July 1945, Vannevar Bush devised of the memex as a device for storing and retrieving information in a way that mirrors the associative nature of human thinking.
Participatory Heuristic Evaluation*
Participatory heuristic evaluation is an extended version of heuristic evaluation.
Usability Methods*
Participatory heuristic evaluation is an extended version of heuristic evaluation.
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Events
AUIC 2008: 9th Australasian User Interface Conference
January 22-25, 2008, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Interaction 08: 1st Annual Interaction Design Conference
February 8-10, 2008, Savannah, Georgia, USA
ACHI 2008: 1st International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interaction
February 10-15, 2008, St. Luce, Martinique/p>
TEI 08: 2nd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction
February 18-21, 2008, Bonn, Germany
IASTED-HCI 2008: 3rd IASTED International Conference on Human- Computer Interaction
March 17–19, 2008, Innsbruck, Austria
HCIEd 2008: HCI Educators 2008
April, 2-4, 2008, Rome, Italy
CHI 2008: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
April 5-10, 2008, Florence, Italy
GI 2008: Graphics Interface 2008
May 28-30, 2008, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
HCI Track at ECIS 2008: 16th European Conference on Information Systems
June 9-11, 2008, Galway, Ireland
IDC 2008: 7th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
June 11-13, 2008, Chicago, Illinois, USA
DSV-IS 2008: 14th International Workshop on Design, Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems
July 16-18, 2008, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Measuring Behavior 2008: 6th International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral Research
August 26-29, 2008, Maastricht, The Netherlands
HCI 2008: 22th British HCI Group Annual Conference
September 1-5, 2008, Liverpool, UK
MobileHCI 08: 10th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
September 2-5, 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
PDC 2008: 10th Biennial Participatory Design Conference
September 30 - October 4, 2008, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
NordiCHI 2008: 5th Nordic Conference on Computer-Human Interaction
October 20-22, 2008, Lund, Sweden
CSCW 2008: ACM 2008 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
November 8-12, 2008, San Diego, California, USA
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