British Computer Society News

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Following all the publicity for our own APL86 Conference, it should be remembered that there are another fifty or so BCS Specialist Groups organising meetings and conferences throughout the year. Two other major conferences are to be held in September.

Software Engineering ’86¶

10-12 September, University of Southampton

This is to be the first of a series of annual conferences on software engineering organised jointly by the B.C.S. and the Institution of Electrical Engineers in conjunction with the Alvey Directorate. The conference will cover the practical application of software engineering as well as the theory of new and established methodologies, and is intended to be a showpiece for advances in software engineering from around the world.

The following topics will be covered:

• Technology of the software development process
• Management of large software developments
• Experience with software engineering methodologies
• Software development metrics
• Software development tools
• Teaching and training

HCI ’86 - People and Computers: Designing for Usability¶

22-26 September, University of York

Human Computer Interaction is rapidly assuming a position of major importance in all aspects of Information Technology. Increasingly the IT market expects products with better human interfaces. Meeting such expectations is becoming a matter of survival.

HCI ’86 is Europe’s key international forum for advancing the discipline of HCI. Here industrial delegates can survey the advanced techniques being developed to help them cope with these growing demands. Here too, researchers will discern the important uses on which to focus their talents, and it is here that this synergy between industry and research will be harnessed to push the frontiers of HCI still further forward.

It is becoming increasingly difficult and dangerous to ignore the challenge of the human element in IT. HCI ’86 is here to help you meet that challenge.

The conference will have tutorials, workshops, discussion groups, an exhibition and a varied social programme, as well as papers on a variety of topics including:

• Tools and techniques for developing user interfaces
• Formal models of Human Computer Interaction
• Empirical evaluation of interfaces
• Matching system functions to user tasks
• Applications, including expert systems, graphics and special purpose systems for the handicapped.

For further information and booking details for either event, please contact:

BISL Conference Department, British Computer Society,
13 Mansfield Street, London W1M 0BP. (01-637 0471)