Why use task models?Sandrine Balbo
CSIRO/MIS, Intelligent Interactive TechnologyTuesday 20 June at 11am
Abstract
Although task analysis is widely used in the early stages of software development to gather user requirements, the use of task models hardly ever crosses the gap from the research world to the industry world. In this talk, we are going to look at a few case studies were task models were used in either industry or research projects, and within various contexts: software design, knowledge acquisition, system documentation, or usability evaluation. How were task models used and for what purpose? This is what we are going to illustrate and discuss.
The PowerPoint presentation of the talk can be downloaded (210KB)
Short resume
Sandrine Balbo is a research scientist at CSIRO, Mathematical and Information Sciences (CMIS), and a member of the Intelligent Interactive Technology (IIT) group. Her interests cover task modelling, user requirement specification, user interface design as well as usability evaluation. After finishing her PhD in Human-Computer Interaction in 1994, at the University of Grenoble (France), she first worked as a lecturer at Bond University (Australia), before joining the Sydney lab of CMIS in 1995.