Time and the Web Programme 19 June 1997 The Octagon Staffordshire University http://www.hiraeth.com/conf/web97/ http://www.hiraeth.com/web97/

19 June 1997, The Octagon, Staffordshire University

10.00am - Refreshments

10.30am - Introduction

10.45am - Setting the agenda: studies and issues

Chair: Dave Trepess

William Newman

The use of critical parameters in the design of web-based interactive systems

Anthony Byrne & Richard Picking (Staffordshire University)

Is time out to be the big issue?

Barbara McManus (University of Central Lancashire)

Compensating behaviours for web delays

Helen Parker (Sheffield-Hallam University)

Temporal usability and disturbance management in interaction

12.15pm - Lunch

1.45pm - Attacking the problem: theory and mechanisms

Chair: Devina Ramduny

Chris Johnson (Glasgow University)

What's the Web Worth? The Impact of Retrieval Delays on the Value of Distributed Information

Cristian Ionitoiu & Maria Angi (Warwick University)

An adaptive caching and replication mechanism for WWW

Xinping Guo & Colin Pattinson (Leeds University)

Quality of service requirements for multimedia Communications

3.00pm - Break, refreshments

3.30pm - Panel led discussion

Chair: Alan Dix

Panelists: Richard Bentley (Rank Xerox), Nigel Birch (EPSRC)

4.30pm - End

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