%SECTION            Academic Unit
%Country            Australia, Victoria, Hawthorn
%Shortname          Swinburne Univ. of Technology, Computer Science
%Institution        Swinburne University of Technology
%Unit               Computer Science
%Address            PO Box 218, Hawthorn, Vic 3122, AUSTRALIA
%Phone              +03 819 8566
%Fax                +03 819 0823
%Email              steve@saturn.cs.swin.oz.au
%Contact            Earl Livings
%Updated            1994-03-01
%Degrees            MIT(HCI), Ph.D. in CS
%HCI_MS_Theses      4
%HCI_PhD_Theses     
%HCI_MS_Current     7
%HCI_PhD_Current    4
%Description The SUT CS Department is strong in HCI,SE,AI and
Graphics
%Facilities The CS Department has a large number of workstations:
 * variety of SUN's
 * HP Software Engineering lab with about 20 workstations
 * Macintosh HCI lab, lots of low end machines and a Quadra 950
 * Portable Video Camers, Monitors, basic editing equipment
 * assorted small computers

%SECTION            HCI Program
%Contact            Steve Howard
%Title              Director, Centre for Systems Methodologies
%Address            Swinburne University of Technology
Department of Computer Science
PO Box 218, Hawthorn, Vic 3122, AUSTRALIA
%Phone              +03 819 8566
%FAX                +03 819 0823
%Email              steve@saturn.cs.swin.oz.au
%Program HCI is one of 5 areas of specialization in the
department.

%SECTION            HCI Faculty
%Name               Steve Howard
%Title              Director, Centre for Systems Methodologies
%Degree             M.Sc (Ergonomics) Univ London
%Phone              +03 819 8566
%Email              steve@saturn.cs.swin.oz.au
%Interests +
 * User interface design process
 * Modelling user interface design
 * Empirical Methods
 * User Interface Development
 * Software Engineering
%Publications +
 * Howard,S. and Leung,Y. 1991, Interacting with Graphical User
   Interfaces States, Processes and Resources.  Pub in
   Proceedings of OZCHI'91, Sydney, Australia.
 * Howard,S. Lindgaard,G. and Kaplan,I. 1992.  HCI in Australia. 
   Pub in Proc of CHI'92. Monterey, USA.
 * Howard, S. 1993, What do user interface designers say they need
   to know  about HCI?  Published in the Proceedings of 
   OzCHI'93. Canberra, Australia, 1993

%SECTION            HCI Courses
%Title              MIT (HCI)
%Instructor         Steve Howard
%Frequency          Annual
%Times_Taught       
%Enrollment         
%Format             Lecture + exercises + project
%Tools              X windows, HyperCard, Video
%Text +
 * Baecker & Buxton, 1987
%Description This Masters degree covers the issues, information
sources, and methods used in the design, implementation and
evaluation of user interfaces, the parts of software systems
designed to interact with people.