• Timetable
• About Dr T. Matsubara and his Talk
• List of Participants
• Reference

• 09:00 - 09:15 Introductions; discussion of the purpose and format of the workshop
• 09:15 - 10:00 Invited talk Dr. Tomoo Matsubara

Cross-Pollination: A Clue to Build Usable and Confident Systems
• 10:00 - 10:15 Discussion
• 10:15 - 10:30 Workshop participants will divide into two groups to discuss the following questions:
Q1: What do usability engineers expect from software engineers? What kind of tools support is appreciated for software and usability engineering?
Q2: What do software engineers expect from usability engineers? What kind of tools support is appreciated for software and usability engineering?
• 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
• 11:00 - 12:00 Discussion in sub-groups
• 12:00 - 12:30 Preparation of the results of the discussion
• 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
• 14:30 - 15:00 Presentation of the results of the subgroups
• 15:00 - 15:15 Introduction of patterns as a vehicle for integrating usability in software engineering tools
• 15:15 - 16:00 Free discussion
• 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
• 17:00 - 17:30 Presentation of the workshop results and further activities

Title: Cross-Pollination: A Clue to Build Usable and Confident Systems

Based on characteristics of software and profession for developing software, there are common tendencies in dealing with subject matter. They introduce many problems at the usage of the software intensive systems. One of the effective way is cross-pollination. Examples of problems and effective applications are cited.

Tomoo Matsubara is an independent consultant 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 of IEEE Software.

Here is a link to the IEEE Software issue on Benefits and Applications of Cross-Pollination
 

List of Participants

Eduard Metzker
DaimlerChrysler, Research and Technology
Software Technology Lab
Email : eduard.metzker@daimlerchrysler.com

Fabio Paternò                       
CNUCE - C.N.R. Via G. Moruzzi, 1 56100 Pisa,
Email: fabio.paterno@cnuce.cnr.it
http://giove.cnuce.cnr.it/~fabio

Peter Forbrig
University of Rostock
Department of Computer Science, Software Engineering Group
Albert-Einstein-Str. 21 D-18051 Rostock Germany   
Email: peter.forbrig@informatik.uni-rostock.de
http://wwwswt.informatik.uni-rostock.de

Xavier Ferré
Facultad de Informática - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Spain
Email: xavier@fi.upm.es
http://www.ls.fi.upm.es/udis/miembros/xavier/index_e.html

Ahmed Seffah
Department of Computer Science
Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd., W.  Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G1M8
Email: seffah@cs.concordia.ca
http://www.cs.concordia.ca/~seffah

Tomoo Matsubara
Matsubara Consulting
IEEE Software, Industrial Advisory Board Member
Cutter IT Journal Editorial Board Member
1-9-6 Fujimigaoka, Ninomiya, Naka-gun Kanagawa 259-0122 Japan
Email: matsu@computer.org, tmatsu@xa2.so-net.ne.jp

Ghassan Al-Qaimari
RMIT University, Australia
Email: ghassan@rmit.edu.au