Table of Contents

Preface.
Series Foreword.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
Design Pattern Languages.
An Interdisciplinary Pattern Framework.
A Pattern Language for Interactive Music Exhibits.
Evaluation and Tool Support.
Summary and Further Research.
Bibliography.

Appendix A: Online Resources.

Appendix B: WorldBeat Sample Run.
List of Figures and Credits.
Index.

About the Author

JAN BORCHERS is Acting Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. His research interests lie in Human-Computer Interaction for New Media - making the Brave New World of ubiquitous media technology usefuly, by making it usable. he has designed a series of award-winning and highly popular interactive exhibits that have been installed permanently in public exhibition centers, and has pioneered the field of HCI patterns in recent years, organizing many workshops and leading an international research task force for IFIP on the subject.

Jan Borchers holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Darmstadt, and a BSc MSc in the same field from the University of Karlsruhe. He has presented his work at most major HCI conferences, as well as in journals such as IEEE Multimedia and Computers Graphics. He is a member of ACM SIGCHI, BayCHI, and GI.