Conferences and Events: Past UPA Conferences
UPA 2004: Connecting Communities
UPA 2004 explored the many ways that communities affect usability and the user experience, as well as the ways that the user experience affects communities.
- Conference Dates: June 7-11, 2004
- Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Attendees: 450+
- Conference Web Site and Final Program
- Conference Committee
Keynotes and Invited Speakers
- Keynote: Ginny Redish: Yours, Mine and Ours - Connecting Communities
- Closing Plenary: Howard Rheingold: Smart Mobs
- Invited Speaker: Howard Berkowitz: What Problem are You trying to Solve?
- Invited Speaker: Chris Conley: The Ubiquitous Network
- Invited Speaker: Steve Denning: The Key to Connecting Communities (5 MB)
- Invited Speakers: Kinnebrew & Kelkar: The Urban Opportunity Project (new window)
Conference Blogs
The Idea Market - Afterthoughts
Ever feel that the best part of a conference happens between sessions? Ulf Andersson did. So he devised a new format for conference sessions called an Idea Market. Attendees are free to roam from one idea station to the next, until they find a topic that they are interested in. Multiple "activators" stir up lively discourse on a variety of topics in a highly interactive, fluid session.
Here are the Afterthoughts from the 2004 Idea Markets:
Wednesday
- How can the UML approach be enhanced and integrated into the User-Centred design approach? - Halima Adebayo
- Lies, damn lies, and statistics: How does corporate culture affect the reporting of usability results? - Lori Anschuetz
- How do you turn usability test findings into recommendations? - Kris Betcher
- What big win did you have last year? - Scott Butler
- Best Practices in Utest Logging - David Dayton
- How many users with disabilities should you include when conducting a usability test for accessibility? - Mary Martinson Grossnickle
- Remote Moderated Usability - Mark Safire
Friday
- How Can We Best Sell Usability - Karen Bachmann
- How to evaluate the user-centeredness of companies? - Nigel Bevan
- How do we perform usability testing when the tasks are so novel that users don’t even know they want to perform them? - Sam Burns & Patrick Williams
- Why don’t Usability Deliverables Get Used - Janice James
- Building a Usability Repository: Share your Wish List - Carol J. Smith
- Consultant or employee - Who is best suited to do the best usability work on a project? - Ron Sova
- How do we incorporate user-centered design into agile development methodology? - Pawan Vora
Presentations and Advanced Topic Seminars
| SPEAKER | PRESENTATION TITLE |
| Bill Killam | 
Voting
Equipment in America: Observations from the Field |
| Sharon Laskowski |
Standards
and Testing for Usability and Accessibility |
| Louise Ferguson |
International
Perspectives on Voting Systems |
| Amanda Nance | 
Master's Program at Georgia Tech |
| Josephine Scott |
Voting
System Users: Profile of a County Clerk |
| Josephine Scott |
Understanding
Voters: The Elections Landscape |
| Tullis & Stetson | A
Comparison of Questionnaires for Assessing Website Usability |
| Preston & Fowler | Using Sounds and Graphics in Application Interfaces (new window) |
Conference Committee
- Conference Co-Chairs: Diane Wilson, Caryn Josephson
- Conference Advisor: Joseph Kramer
- Advanced Topics: Chauncey Wilson, Eugenie Bertus
- Exhibits: Dave Metropolis-Rundus
- Idea Markets: Deborah Hinderer Sova, Hank Henry
- International: Alain Robillard-Bastien, Nathalie Barthe
- Invited Speakers: Joe Bugental
- Local Liaison - Montreal: Alain Robillard-Bastien
- On-site Conference Volunteers: Joi Roberts, Lena Miyamoto
- Panels and Presentations: Meryl Gross, DeeDee DeMulling,Carol Smith
- Peer-Reviewed Papers: Stephen Hatfield, Wendy McKibben
- Posters: Sharon Harap, Kathy Baxter
- Printed Program Design: Allen Rotz, Melanie Datz
- Publicity: Kelly Berg, Cia Romano, Lee Ellis
- Reviewer Coordinator: James McElroy, Daniel Engleberg, Bill Albert
- Session Chair Coordinator: Catherine Courage
- Surveys: Carol Peterson
- 10-Minute Talks: Chauncey Wilson, Joi Roberts
- Tutorials: Carl Turner, Jarinee Chattratichart
- Newcomers Track: Richard Bellaver, Cia Romano
- Workshops: Carol Peterson, Mary Beth Rettger
- Web Site: Gary Macomber