• The past, present and future on web accessibility. Helen Petrie, PhD. University of York. United Kingdom;
• Process Modelling - What Really Matters. Michael Rosemann, MBA, PhD. Queensland University of Technology. Australia;
• Social Media Interaction: Understanding Compound Multimedia Dependencies. Dick Bulterman, PhD. Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI). Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Designing Collaborative Systems that Support Social Behavior. Thomas Erickson. IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
• W3C, O FUTURO DA WEB E HTML5. Carlinhos Cecconi, W3C/Brasil

Essas palestras são abertas a todos os participantes desses eventos. Abaixo seguem mais informações sobre estas palestras e seus palestrantes.

Abstract

Making the Web accessible to people with disabilities is an important but still poorly understood problem.  The situation is not made any easier for interested researchers and practitioners by the fact that the Web is a very rapidly evolving phenomenon. This talk will outline the different cases for web accessibility and provide a brief history of the study of this area.  It will review work on a number of issues of current interest, particularly the development of metrics to concisely measure web accessibility and the relationship between accessibility and usability.  Finally, it will look at some of the challenges of accessibility that need to be addressed in the near future, particularly those related to the development of Web 2.0 and Web 3.0.

Short Bio

Helen Petrie is Professor of Human Computer Interaction in the Department of Computer Science at the University of York.  She originally trained in cognitive and experimental psychology and lectured in psychology and statistics before becoming interested in how people use computers and what makes them easy or difficult for people.  She then undertook further studies in Computer Science.  She has conducted research on the use of computers and new technologies for people with disabilities and older people for over a decade. She has been involved in more than 30 British and international projects in this area and published extensively. She is particularly interested in the issues of the accessibility of the web for people with disabilities.  In 2004 she lead the team that conducted the largest study of website accessibility to date for the British Disability Rights Commission, looking at the accessibility of 1000 websites and in 2005 conducted a similar study into accessibility of websites in the museums, libraries and archives sector for the UK Council of Museums, Libraries and Archives (MLA). More recently she has been part of the European Union supported BenToWeb Project (Benchmarking Tools for the Web) which investigated a range of issues related to web accessibility and helped develop the Unified Web Evaluation Methodology for accessibility. (UWEM).  She has advised numerous private and public sector organisations on the accessibility of the Web and other new technologies and on other issues related to technology and disability.

Palestrante: Michael Rosemann, MBA, PhD. Queensland University of Technology
Título da Palestra: Process Modelling - What Really Matters.

Abstract

Process modelling has become one of the most popular forms of conceptual modelling. However, there is an increasing body of evidence suggesting that the requirements of organisations and the focus of related academic research do not sufficiently overlap. This keynote presentation will start with the results of a comparative study on the benefits, issues and challenges of process modelling as they are perceived by academics, IT vendors and end users. It will become obvious that there is a substantial gap between the priorities of these communities. Recommendations and specific examples will be provided for how to close this gap in order to increase the relevance of research on process modelling. This will cover context-aware process modelling, private process modelling, spatial process modelling and the success factors of process modelling. Case studies will cover industries such as aviation, health and entertainment. As a consequence, it will postulated to be more proactive in terms of collaborations between design-oriented and behavioural researchers.

Short Bio

Dr Michael Rosemann is a Professor for Information Systems and Co-Leader of the Business Process Management (BPM) Group at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. He is the Chief Investigator of a number of applied research projects funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) and various industry partners.
A prolific writer, he is the author/editor of seven books, more than 140 refereed papers (incl. MISQ, IEEE TKDE, JAIS, Information Systems) and Editorial Board member of seven international journals. His publications have been translated into German, Russian, Portuguese and Chinese. Michael's PhD students have won the Australian award for the best PhD thesis in Information Systems in 2007 and in 2008. Michael is the co-inventor of seven US patent proposals related to process modelling. Dr Rosemann is the founder and chair of the Australian BPM Community of Practice (bpm-collaboration.com) and has been the Chair of the 5th International Business Process Management Conference in 2007. He regularly conducts executive training in BPM (www.bpm-training.com) and provided advice to organisations from various industries

Abstract

It is tempting to categorize multimedia authoring in terms of component areas: media encoding, media storage, media access, media transport, media rendering and overall presentation composition and control. Unfortunately, this partitioning blurs the dependencies that exist among these component areas which ultimately determine the success of an authoring system. Using the broad problem of social media interaction as an example, this talk will consider the composite effects of creating and accessing and transporting and presenting rich media objects for use by non-technical end users.

The talk will survey several approaches that have been developed at CWI to describe and manage media interactions. We will focus on the temporal modelling of context-sensitive interactions of complex collections of independent media objects. Using the concepts of ‘togetherness’ being employed in the EU’s FP-7 project TA2: Together Anywhere, Together Anytime, we will follow the process of media capture, profiling, composition, sharing and end-user manipulation. We will consider the promise of using automated tools and contrast this with the reality of letting real users manipulation presentation semantics in real time.

The talk will not present a closed form solution, but will present a series of topics and problems that can stimulate the development of a new generation of systems to stimulate social media interaction.

Short Bio

Dr. Dick Bulterman is a senior researcher at CWI in Amsterdam, where since 2004 he heads the Distributed Multimedia Languages and Interfaces theme. From 1988-1994 (and briefly in 2002), he led CWI's Department of Computer Systems and Telematics and from 1994 to 1998, he was head of the Multimedia and Human Computer theme. In 1999, he started Oratrix Development BV, a CWI spin-off company that transferred the group's SMIL-based GRiNS software to many parts of the civilized world. In 2002, after handing the responsibilities of CEO over to Mario Wildvanck, he returned to CWI and started up a new research activity at CWI on distributed multimedia systems. Prior to joining CWI in 1988, he was on the faculty of the Division of Engineering at Brown, where he was part of the Laboratory for Engineering Man/Machine Systems. Other academic appointments include visiting professorships in computer science at Brown (1993-94) and in the information theory group at TU Delft (1985) and a part-time appointment in computer science at the University of Utrecht (1989-1991). Dr. Bulterman received a Ph.D. in computer science from Brown University (USA) in 1982. He also holds a Sc.M. in computer science from Brown (1977) and a B.A. in economics from Hope College (1973). He started his academic journey at Tottenville High School on Staten Island, NY, where he learned (among other things) to play trombone and string bass. He was born in Amstelveen (The Netherlands) in 1951; after 35 years in the USA, he now resides with his family in Amsterdam. His hobbies (in as much as one can speak of hobbies with two children under the age of 12 ...) include flying airplanes (he holds an FAA private ASEL license with instrument rating and a Dutch commercial pilot's license with IR), singing in the Cantorij of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam and trying to learn piano and cello (which is a much lighter instrument than a string bass). He is on the editorial board of the ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal and Multimedia Tools and Applications. He is a member of Sigma Xi, the ACM and the IEEE.

Palestrante: Thomas Erickson (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)
Título da Palestra: Designing Collaborative Systems that Support Social Behavior.

Abstract

As humans we are social creatures. We pay attention to people around us, and every day we shape our behavior in response to their actions, and as a consequence we are remarkably skilled at coordinating our activities with others. However, when people are separated by time or space and connected only by digital networks, much of our skill at coordination vanishes. Things that are easy to do when we are together - taking turns when talking, carrying on a coherent discussion, noticing when someone is not participating - become cumbersome, if they are possible at all. In this talk I discuss my approach to designing online systems that make their participants visible to one another, the aim being to support the communication and coordination that is a normal part of face to face collaboration. Beginning with an examination of how we manage to coordinate our face to face interaction, I suggest some principles that underlie this ability. Next I describe how these principles may be embodied in online systems. I then illustrate their application with design work that ranges from implemented systems to concept pieces, and covers activities ranging from conversation to auctions to waiting in queues. Ultimately, my hope is that we, as a field, can learn to design online environments that not only allow us to effectively carry out our work, but that also have some of the engagement and grace that characterize our face to face interactions.

Short Bio

Thomas Erickson is an interaction designer and researcher at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in New York, to which he telecommutes from his home in Minneapolis. His primary interest is in studying and designing systems that enable groups of all sizes to interact coherently and productively over networks. Erickson’s design approach involves the use of minimalist visualizations called social proxies that provide cues about the presence and activity of participants in online interactions. More generally, Erickson's approach to systems design is shaped by methods developed in HCI, theories and representational techniques drawn from architecture and urban design, and theoretical and analytical approaches from rhetoric and sociology. In addition to computer-mediated communication, other research interests include virtual communities, genre theory, personal information management, pattern languages, and, most recently, urban informatics. Originally trained as a cognitive psychologist, Erickson left graduate school to join a start up (before they were either popular or lucrative), creating applications for the first generation of IBM-compatible PCs. In 1987 he moved to Apple, where he spent nine years developing advanced product concepts. In 1997 he moved to IBM where he developed his current line of research. Over the last two decades Erickson has published about sixty papers, and been involved in the design of over a dozen information and communication systems ranging from advanced research prototypes to commercial products. He is co-editor of HCI Remixed, a book of essays on works that have influenced theHCI community that has just been published by MIT Press.

Palestrante: Carlinhos Cecconi, W3C/Brasil
Título da Palestra: W3C, O FUTURO DA WEB E HTML5.

Resumo

Apresentação sobre o Consórcio W3C e o seu papel definidor dos padrões web. O histórico da Web e sua evolução desde o seu surgimento. A presença e atuação do escritório brasileiro do W3C, hospedado pelo CGI.BR. As novidades da futura recomendação HTML5, os novos elementos com valor semântico e suas diferenças com o HTML4.

Mini CV

Carlinhos Cecconi, 53 anos, é Analista de Projetos do W3C Escritório Brasil. Foi chefe de gabinete do ITI - Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia da Informação, quando foi Secretário do Comitê Técnico de Implementação do Software Livre e do I Planejamento Estratégico de Implementação de Software Livre no Governo Federal. Atuou também em consultorias em diversas organizações para desenvolvimento de ambientes wikis na web. Integrante do ITIP Instituto de Estudos de Tecnologias para Inovação na gestão Pública e membro do júri do Prêmio Conip de Excelência em Inovação na Gestão Pública. É sócio fundador da ong Rede Livre de Compartilhamento da Cultura Digital.