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Sigi (Ziggy) Olschner Usability engineer at SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, a Novell Business

Contact Name: Dr. Siegfried B. Olschner Address: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuermberg Email: siegfried.olschner@novell.com ICQ: 289735093 Phone: +49(0)911-740-53-192 Nickname: Sigi [pronounced as "Ziggy"]

News 2006-03-01: My objectives for this year are certain. One goal is to provide a kind of user analysis to create better personas for openSUSE. Other goals are to enhance the YaST installation and the YaST look and feel consistency. 2006-04-22: My co-worker Evamaria Fuchs an I attended at the Computer Human Interaction 2006 (CHI'2006) conference. It was a great experience.

Steps in my life (some of the links lead to German websites) Date and place of birth: In the sixties in Bamberg, Germany School: Dientzenhofer Gymnasium Bamberg - where I made some illustrations in the fine arts courses Dragon 1 (based on artwork by Rodney Matthews) -- Dragon 2 (based on artwork by Boris Vallejo) -- Shoes (I loved them!) -- SF 1 (first concept study for a comic) -- Klaus Kinski (based on a picture out of the film "Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes") 1983: A lot of performance at the Bundeswehr 1984: Trainee in an advertisement company - responsible for the pre-print stage in the darkroom 1984: Study of MA with major filed Dramatics and minor field Psychology at the University of Erlangen-Nuermberg 1984 - 1994: Vacation work at the German Post - I sorted your packages 1986: Change of my major field to Certificated Psychology 1988: Student Assistant of Prof. J. Brunstein - investigator and contributor in many psychological studies concerning motivation and emotion at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg 1988 - 1993: Working student at tpm - a training and consulting company where I got an insight into the personnel development in big companies like Mercedes, British Petrol, Opel, ... 1989: The get-together with a challenging girl named Doris produced my son Manuel. It was a perfect timing, he was born nine month after the marriage 1991: Very bad news: My wife got the diagnosis Multiple Sclerosis (I you have questions, don't hesitate to ask, I can share some tips and tricks) 1994: Diploma in Psychology at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg with Computer Science as minor field of study 1994: Research Associate in the project VAGCT (Analysis Of The Memory Load Caused By User Interfaces) 1995: Research and Teaching Assistant (Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg) - Dept. of General Psychology (Prof. H. Werbik) and Industrial Psychology (Prof. H. v. Benda) Courses in General Psychology: Cognition (hands-on seminar), Perception (hands-on seminar), Thinking and Troubleshooting Courses in Applied Psychology: Leadership and Motivation, Organizational Psychologiy, Personnel Development, Human Computer Interaction Other courses: The Psychology of Love, Children and New Media 1999: Promotion in Psychology (Univ.Erlangen-Nürnberg) - Thesis: Memory Load During Use Of GUI Interdepend To Mouse And Keyboard Skills 2000: Birth of my son Marwin since 2000: SUSE Linux employee. I made a lot of work for former versions of the SUSE LINUX Professional and at the moment I'm a member of the Interfaces and Applications Team. 2001: Birth of my daughter Miriam 2004: Novell came into my life, the SUSE Linux AG changed to "SUSE Linux, a Novell business" 2005: To understand him and to get back a closer contact to my 16 years old son I revived my old player qualities and now I make slow process within WoW at Alexstrasza (German) with Alrescha a nightelves warrior ;-) 2006: We will see...

Selected examples of my work -- Under construction -- 2001: Some new YaST (Yet another Setup Tool) dialogs TBD 2003: Firewall on CD dialogs 2003: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop TBD 2005: Enhancement of SaX: Start: The old SaX2 interface (SUSE Linux 9.2) On the road: A mockup made with qt-Designer Finish: The final version (screenshot from SUSE Linux 10.0) 2006: Conceptual work for the openSUSE Webupdater, an experimental update tool using Ruby On Rails and Ajax TBD -- Under construction --

Publications v. Benda, H., Gourmelon, A., Just, S., Knabe, G., Olschner, S. & Prager, W. (1994). Softwaregestaltung und -bewertung aus gedächtnispsychologischer Sicht. Inst. f. Psychologie I, Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg, Memorandum 81 Olschner, S., Gourmelon, A. & v. Benda, H. (1995). Evaluating Software: Demands On Human Memory Concerning The Age Group 50 Years And Older. Proceedings of the 2nd TIDE Congress, pp 106-109, Paris, France, April 1995 Brunstein, J. C. & Olschner, S. (1996). Goal commitment, performance feedback, and motivation to engage in substitute action. In T. Gjesme & R. Nygard (Eds.), Advancesin motivation (S. 23-34). Oslo: Scandinavian University Press. Olschner, S. (2000). Der Einfluß der Interaktionskomplexität einer Dialogschnittstelle und derInteraktionsfähigkeit des Benutzers auf die Vergessensrate. Shaker Verlag GmbH

Memberships Association of Computing Machineries (ACM) German Chapter Usability Professionals Association (GC-UPA) Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) Greenpeace Germany

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Springboard

SUSE Usability Campus Project / openSUSE Usability Knowledge Base openSUSE in cooperation with the Departements of Computer Science and Psychology of the University of Erlangen-Nuermberg: Usability resources of the advanced hands-on seminar, winter 2006/2007 (English and German texts)

OpenUsability.org OpenUsability.org "... brings Open Source Developers and Usability Experts together".

Better Desktop Project BetterDesktop.org "... is dedicated to the analysis and discussion of our data in relation to Linux Desktop Usability".

Usability Portal @ innerweb.NOVELL Only Novell employees have access to our Novell Innerweb Usability Portal