Alan Dix
Lancaster University, vfridge limited and aQtive limited

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short courses and tutorials

This is a range of tutorials and industrial short courses that I've delivered to a mixture of academics and industrialists over several years, addressing both practical and more theoretical issues, but each with my own slightly different angle.

Conference tutorials run as advertised, for other tutorials or short courses, please contact me if you are interested.

You can make personal use of any of the resources on these pages, but if you wish to use them commercially or if you want to discuss a short course tailored to your requirements, please contact me.

Statistics

A series of tutorials on understanding statistics in HCI, CSCW and related areas.

• "Avoiding Damned Lies: Understanding Statistics", CSCW98, Seattle, USA, 1998.
• "Understanding Statistics", AVI98, Aquila, Italy, 1998.
• "Avoiding Damned Lies: Understanding Statistical Ideas", CHI98, Los Angeles, USA, 1998.
• "Understanding Statistics", HCI'96, London, UK, 1996.

Formal methods in HCI

• "Harnessing the power of formalism for understanding interaction", AVI2004, Gallipoli, Italy, 2004.
• "Effective Use of Formal Methods in HCI", HCI'96, London, UK, 1996.
• "Formal Methods and HCI", (with Gregory Abowd), HCI'94, Glasgow, UK, 1994.
• "Formal Methods and HCI", (with Gregory Abowd), HCI'92, York, UK, 1992.

Short Courses - UNIX, Shell, C and the Internet

• UNIX Network Programming with TCP/IP: Client-Server and Internet Applications
  (including full notes in PDF and sample code)
• UNIX Systems Programming
  (including full notes in PDF and sample code)
• UNIX Power Tools
• X-Motif (including full notes in PDF)
• C Programming

Research and Innovation

I originally developed materials about research techniques for undergraduate project students. However, it soon became obvious that the same techniques were useful at all levels of research and have since been used with HND, Bachelors, Masters and PhD students.

More recently, it has become clear that the same techniques are also invaluable for problem solution in commercial settings and also for driving and inspiring innovation in product design.

• Research Techniques - full notes in various formats.

User-interface and groupware construction

• "Building and Prototyping Groupware", HCI'95 , Huddersfield, UK, 1995. (including full notes in PDF)
• "Prototyping User Interfaces in HyperCard", HCI'95 , Huddersfield, UK, 1995.
• "Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Groupware", HCI'94 , Glasgow, UK, 1994.