Dear colleague, This is from secretariat of INTERACT2001. I am pleased to inform you about the workshop of the conference. -------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP1 Call for Participation In the last few years, many software development teams have tried to integrate $B!! (Buser-centered design techniques into their software engineering lifecycle - in particular in the use case driven software engineering approach. However, because of misunderstandings, these teams often run into problems. One problem derives from the fact if a software team member has experience in user-centered design, he or she may see similarities between the two approaches ? for example use cases and task analysis - and try to substitute one for the other. The workshop will unite researchers and practitioners involved in software engineering with those interested in usability engineering. It aims to be a forum for sharing ideas about potential and innovative ways to cross-pollinate the two disciplines, successful and unsuccessful experiences related to integrating usability into the software engineering lifecycle and small and medium-sized organizations, and a future research agenda for bridging the current gap between the software and usability communities. Guest Speaker Dr. Tomoo Matsubara is an senior software engineering expert working with software companies, as well as with software organizations in equipment manufacturing companies. Currently, he is a Senior Consultant for Cutter Consortium and Associate Editor-in-Chief ofIEEE Software. For more information about the workshop http://www.cs.concordia.ca/~faculty/seffah/ ------------------------------------ INTERACT2001 http://www.interact2001.org/ [log in to unmask]