Can users understand what they are seeing? What is the appropriate technology? How do we ensure that the goals and objectives of our highly dynamic and interactive sites are met?

To find correct answers to these, as with all design problems, we must surely match the technology to the needs. Sometimes, for marketing or image reasons this means using the newest technology just because it is the newest and sexiest. But when functionality and usability matter it is likely to mean using a blend of technologies and often a socio-technical solution, involving, dare we say it, people!

This day conference, appropriately termed "The Active Web", focused on issues surrounding dynamic interfaces for the Web. Papers were invited from practitioners and researchers on (but not limited to) the following:

Design approaches and techniques suitable for dynamic web content Usability studies regarding active web front-ends Effective use of client/server technologies and standards - e.g. HTMLx, DHTML, XML, DOM, Pull/Push, Multimedia, Scripting (CGI, ASP, PERL, ...), Java (applets/servlets), plug-ins and database driven pages. Personalisation at the web interface Dialogue persistence and state Intelligence and knowledge-based support Web accessibility Multi-lingual approaches E-commerce solutions Software tool support

Accepted papers were distributed as extended abstracts at the conference and subsequently we intend to publish a book based on full papers and additional material.

Programme

9.15	Registration and Tea/Coffee
10.00	Introduction Dave Clarke and Alan Dix
	Adaptable Hypermedia with Web Standards and Tools Lloyd Rutledge, Lynda Hardman, Jacco van Ossenbruggen and Dick Bulterman CWI, Amsterdam
	Browsing Video Content Peter Macer1, Peter Thomas2 1Hewlett Packard Research Labs, UK; 2University of the West of England
	Using Visualisation to Interpret Search Engine Results Ratvinder Grewal, Mike Jackson, Jon Wallis and Peter Burden University of Wolverhampton
11.15	Tea/Coffee
11.45	A Stable View of the Hyperactive Web George Buchanan, Gil Marsden, Thomas Tan, Yin Leng Theng and Harold Thimbleby Middlesex University
	Patterns and Components: Capturing the Lasting amidst the Changing Hans-W Gellersen1, Fernando Lyardet2, Martin Gaedke1, Daniel Schwabe3 and Gustavo Rossi2 1TecO,University of Karlsruhe, Germany; 2LIFIA, Depto de Informtica, UNLP, Argentina; 3Depto de Informtica, PUC-RIO, Brazil
	A Case Study in Designing a Document-centric Groupware Application over the Internet P Ciancarini and F Vitali University of Bologna, Italy
12.45	Lunch
14.15	Impedance Matching: Enhancing Temporal Interactivity on the Web Devina Ramduny Staffordshire University
	Communicating with Avatars in Virtual 3D Worlds Volker Thoma, Andrea Haf and Arno Hitzges Fraunhofer Institut, Germany
	Beyond Webcams and Videoconferencing: Informal Video Communication on the Web Nicolas Roussel Universite de Paris-Sud, France
15.15	Tea/Coffee
15.45	AIMS - Academic Information Management System Gareth Hughes Southampton University
	Dynamic Web-based Information Management Matt Pearcey1, Darren Pywell2 and David Tattersall2 1Intergral Ltd, 2Intergral GmbH
	Personalized Shopping in the Web by Monitoring the Customer Tanja Jording and Stefan Michel Dresden University of Technology
	Closing Discussion
17.00	End of Day Conference

aQtive limited sponsored a number of student bursaries for the event.

Enquiries

Programme Committee

School of Computing		British HCI Group