YOU ARE INVITED TO CELEBRATE MICHIGAN WORLD USABILITY DAY
DATE: Tuesday, November 14, 2006
TIME: 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center, East Lansing, Michigan
RSVP: This event is free, but seating is limited. Registration and detailed
program information is available at www.usability.msu.edu/conf2006.asp.
Michigan State University's Usability & Accessibility Center and the
Michigan Usability Professionals' Association (MI-UPA) have organized World
Usability Day for Michigan, one of many such events that will join over 100
locations in more than 35 countries to promote World Usability Day on
Tuesday, November 14, 2006. This is the second statewide celebration of
World Usability Day and MSU's Fourth Annual Usability & Accessibility Event.
We have added concurrent workshops during the morning, along with our
regular afternoon sessions about informative and timely topics in
human-technology interface design. All sessions will be relevant to
researchers, professionals, and students alike.
PROGRAM (complete information at www.usability.msu.edu/conf2006.asp).
Workshop 1-A:
Usability as a Tool for Capacity Building: Conducting Community-Based
User-Research
Speaker: Jeff Grabill, Co-Director, MSU WIDE Research Center and Associate
Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
Workshop 1-B:
Live Web Site Usability and Marketing Message Assessment
Speaker: Dave Mitropoulos-Rundus, Compuware Corporation
Session 2:
New Communication Technology for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People
Speaker: Christopher Hunter, Michigan Department of Labor and Economic
Growth
Session 3:
"Ford! Where's My Car?" -- The Story of Usability and Vehicle Order
Management
Speakers: Chad Esselink and IT Creative Design and Usability Team, Ford
Motor Company
Session 4:
Podcasting About Usability: Behind the Sounds of "Design Critique: Products
for People"
Speaker: Timothy Keirnan, Design Critique: Products for People
Session 5:
Driver Distraction: What is the Problem and How can it be Solved?
Speaker: Paul A. Green, University of Michigan Transportation Research
Institute
Session 6:
The Expertise and Complexity of Citizen Knowledge Work; or, A Tale of How
Information Technologies Move from Being Good Collaborators to Poor
Collaborations
Speaker: Jeff Grabill, MSU Writing in Digital Environments (WIDE) Research
Center and Associate Professor, Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
TOURS, MSU USABILITY & ACCESSIBILITY CENTER (Kellogg Center, East Lansing)
Informal tours lasting approximately 15 minutes will be offered from 9:00
a.m. until 12:00 noon on the day of the event. The UAC is located on the
Garden Level of the Kellogg Center and an RSVP spot is included in the
on-line registration for Michigan World Usability Day.
POSTERS
This year, we are adding a student poster session to the day's events. The
poster session is open to students from any discipline, and the posters
should describe a design project that places users at the center of the
design process. Submission guidelines at:
http://usability.msu.edu/poster2006.asp.
EVENT SPONSORS
UPA Michigan Chapter
TechSmith
Michigan Ohio Computer-Human Interaction Society for Technical Communication
- Southeastern Michigan Chapter
Michigan State University:
College of Communications Arts and Sciences MATRIX Resource Center for
Persons with Disabilities Writing in Digital Environments (WIDE) Research
Center National Center for the Study of University Engagement University
Outreach and Engagement
Michigan World Usability Day registration available at
www.usability.msu.edu/conf2006.asp.
World Usability Day information available at:
http://www.worldusabilityday.org/.
MSU Usability & Accessibility Center
Michigan State University
93 Kellogg Center
East Lansing, MI 48824-1022
Telephone: (517) 353-8977
FAX: (517) 432-9541
URL: http://usability.msu.edu
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