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"Panos Markopoulos (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven): Design for and with children

Designing usable human-computer interfaces is a tough job. Objective usability testing of creative designs for computer systems that are used by adults might be even harder. But what about creative systems that are used by children? While the potential of this product category grows, there’s a lot of uncharted territory for the interaction designer.

Panos Markopoulos is an Associate Professor at the TU/e in the department of Industrial Design. He teaches for the USI post-graduate programme where he is responsible for curriculum affairs. He has worked as a researcher at Queen Mary University of London and Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven. His research and teaching topics are related to user system interaction with ambient intelligence environments and interaction design for children.

Peter Frings (Agfa Graphics): The road to usability is paved...

How to convert a software development team – one that has been creating black-box software and device drivers for eons – into a team that creates a very complex and highly interactive product? Peter will present lessons that he has learned over a period of ten years.

Peter Frings is an Industrial Engineer by education and started work as a field engineer for control systems. After a few years, he moved on to programming control systems, involving green-screen (VT100) user interfaces. He started work at Agfa as a developer of prepress production systems. Since 1997, he’s in charge of designing user interfaces for prepress workflow systems."