11th Annual UPA Conference
The annual Usability Professionals' Association (UPA) conference will take place July 8-12, 2002, at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress Resort in Orlando, Florida. We invite you to come to Orlando to share with your peers, to learn from the best of our profession, and to extend your personal and professional contacts throughout the industry. The Advance Program will be available online by April 12. In the meantime, a preview of the conference content is available.
The conference theme, Humanizing Design, emphasizes the importance of the human experience to the design of usable technology products. If technology is to improve the human experience, it needs to respect human expectations, tendencies, and dignity. Shaping technology to meet human needs is as much a science as it is an art.
The Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress Resort is located four miles from the EPCOT® Center and Walt Disney World®, and near many other attractions. The resort features a private lake and miles of tropical nature trails for bicycling, world-class golf, tennis, horseback riding and jogging. Restaurants and shops are located within convenient walking and driving distance.
Keynote Speaker: Joel Birnbaum
The UPA 2002 conference committee is pleased to announce that Joel Birnbaum will be the keynote speaker at the 2002 conference in Orlando, July 8-12.
Birnbaum first used the term "pervasive computing" in 1983 and mentioned "information appliance" in a paper in 1978. He also talks about a "wearable brain." He has authored "Pervasive Information Systems" and "Toward the domestication of microelectronics" for the Communications of the ACM. He also co-authored "Physics and the Information Revolution" for Physics Today.
He has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc., a Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the California Council on Science and Technology and a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery. He has been granted an honorary doctorate by the Technion University of Israel.
Currently senior technical advisor at Hewlett-Packard Co., he pioneered the development of distributed computer system architecture, real-time data acquisition, analysis and control, and RISC processor architecture. Birnbaum joined HP in 1980 after 15 years at IBM Corp.'s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y.
Mr. Birnbaum is very excited to speak at the UPA's conference on "Humanizing Design."
Conference Prices
Tutorial prices are in addition to conference prices, but are discounted for conference attendees. You may register for conferences or workshops without registering for the conference.
Conference Registration Fees
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Student |
Member |
Non-Member |
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|---|---|---|---|
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Early registration (through June 7) |
$300.00 |
$625.00 |
$775.00 |
|
Regular Registration |
$400.00 |
$800.00 |
$950.00 |
Student volunteers fee will be $110 (by June 7) or $150 (post-June 7) after rebate.
Non-member registration includes a one-year membership in the UPA.
Tutorial Fees (full-day tutorials)
|
Student |
If registered for Conference |
If not registered for Conference |
|
|---|---|---|---|
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Early Registration (through June 7) |
$230.00 |
$495.00 |
$550.00 |
|
Regular Registration |
$280.00 |
$620.00 |
$675.00 |
Tutorial Fees (half-day tutorials)
|
Student |
If registered for Conference |
If not registered for Conference |
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
Early Registration (through June 7) |
$120.00 |
$250.00 |
$280.00 |
|
Regular Registration |
$145.00 |
$320.00 |
$345.00 |
Other Fees
|
Workshop |
$100.00 |
|
Workshop (student) |
$40.00 |
|
Usability lab tour |
$50.00 |
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Extra ticket to opening reception |
$45.00 |
|
Extra ticket to Thursday dinner |
$75.00 |
|
Extra hardcopy Conference Proceeding |
$80.00 |
|
Extra CD-ROM Conference Proceeding |
$15.00 |
|
Lunch ticket for tutorial/workshop day |
$20.00 |
