CapCHI folks may be interested in this event. Please RSVP to Carleton U using the instructions below.

COGNOS Innovation Lecture: Collaborating on, with, and about Technology

Tuesday, October 7, 2008
7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
5050 Minto Building, Carleton University

Collaboration technology is the hardware, software, and social processes that support people working together to accomplish goals of mutual interest. An understanding of the ways that people interact with each other and how those depend on the tasks being undertaken and the contexts in which people work is essential to developing successful tools. This will be illustrated with examples drawn from collocated collaboration using large screen displays and distributed collaboration in classrooms, meeting rooms, and small group environments, highlighting the importance of human-centered design starting with observations of existing behavior followed by iterative prototyping and evaluation throughout the development.

Refreshments to follow
RSVP to: cognoslecture@carleton.ca

Kellogg Booth

Kellogg S. Booth is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. He has worked in the fields of human-computer interaction and computer graphics since 1968. He was the founding Director of the Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre at UBC. Prior to that he was a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo (1977-1990), and before that a staff member at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (1968-1976). Research interests include human-computer interaction, visualization, computer graphics, user interface design, and analysis of algorithms. The current focus of his research centers on collaboration technology. He received a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 1968, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1970 and 1975, respectively.