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Description |
Format |
Presentations
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Presentation sessions focus on a practitioner’s
ideas and experience with usability methods, skills, philosophy, design,
business case studies, or other relevant topics. |
40 or 90 minute session |
Panels |
Panels feature three or four people presenting their
ideas and experiences relating to usability methods, skills, philosophy,
design, or other relevant, controversial, emerging, or unresolved
issues. Panels may be conducted in several ways, such as comparative,
analytic, or historic. |
90 minute session |
Peer
Reviewed Papers |
Peer-reviewed papers will be published in a special
section of the conference proceedings. All proposals for papers must
be submitted in a package with a proposal for a presentation, which
will be delivered at a special paper presentation session. Both the
paper and the presentation must reflect the priorities of the UPA
conference, which emphasize practicality, hands-on experience, and
interactive presentation. |
4-6 page paper 40 minute presentation
session |
Tutorials |
Tutorials are formally prepared sessions at which
instructors teach conference participants specific usability or design
skills. |
Half-day, full-day or two-day session |
Workshops
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UPA workshops provide an active arena for advancements
in the field of usability and design. Workshops provide the opportunity
for experienced practitioners to develop new ideas about a topic of
common interest and experience. |
Full-day or two-day session |
Advanced
Topics |
Advanced Topics Seminars are forums in which experienced
usability professionals can discuss focused topics in more detail
than at presentations or panels. |
2 hour session |
Posters |
Posters are a way to present late-breaking results,
new ideas or concepts in an informal, visual and interactive manner. |
4 ft x 8 ft poster board |
Idea
Market
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The Idea Market is highly interactive and casual set
of discussions about “burning questions” in usability
and user-centered design, led by an “activator”. Each
activator chooses a topic, posts the questions or issues to explore
about the topic, and records the ideas that come up during the discussion.
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90 minute session |
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