UPA Publications: UPA Monthly
February 2010
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Featured Event for February
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2010 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (Hong Kong, China) - IUI 2010 is the annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as the principal international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces.
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Promotions and Announcements
Did you know the UPA has a mentoring programme?
If you would like to mentor or are looking for a candidate to mentor, please check out:
http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/usability_resources/pd/become_mentor.html
Congraulations to the following new 2010 chapter officers at NEOUPA (Columbus OH):
- Office of President -- Imran Riaz
- Office of Vice President -- Greg Smith
- Office of Treasurer -- Pam Haaser
Chapter Events:
TriUPA (North Carolina):
Thursday, February 4 - User Experience For IBM Bladecenter w/Mark Molander
(Research Triangle Park, NC) - Mark Molander, User Experience Architect for IBM System x and BladeCenter, will overview how usability and user experience have been supported and implemented in IBM's BladeCenter line of servers. He and the usability team will discuss the various methods, UI designs, and user evaluations they have done since it's first concepts, initially driven by hardware human factors over 10 years ago.
UPA Minnesota:
Thursday, February 11 - Help is out there: Online community, community artifacts, new ways of harnessing knowledge (Joe Konstan, Ph.D.)
(Minneapolis, MN) - This talk discusses studies that explore how online communities create, organize, and find information. From these, we can draw lessons on how social psychology, economics, and other sciences of human behavior can be harnessed to understand and then design effective online communities. In particular, we look at cases where computation and machine learning have the potential to improve the functioning of such communities. And in the process, we can derive insights into the future of searching in social media.
UPA UK (United Kingdom) Chapter:
Thursday, February 18 - User Research at Google: Focus on the User and all else will follow (Jens Riegelsberger/Molly Stevens)
(Brick Lane, London) - The UKUPA is proud to invite Jens Riegelsberger from Google London and Molly Stevens from Google NYC to come and talk to us about Google's approach to developing for their users. In their talk, Jens and Molly will give an informal overview on the user research team at Google: who they are and how they work.
UPA Hong Kong:
Friday, February 19 - Why you need Eyetracking in Usability (Robert Stevens)
(Queen's Road, Central, Hong Kong) - Roberts talk will explore the usability practitioners’ reliance on the Think Aloud protocol. He will question the validity of this protocol before moving on to ask and hopefully provide one answer to the question, is there another, better, way?
Dallas Fort-Worth UPA:
Tuesday, February 23 - Agile and Software Development w/ Marin Fowler
(Dallas, TX) - DFW UPA and DFW Srum are teaming up to bring in Martin Fowler, a respected author on the topics of agile programming and enterprise software development, from ThoughtWorks. This meeting will benefit anyone who is interested in understanding how UX and agile development methodologies fit within scrum project management. Seating at Sabre Holdings is limited to 100 people.
Swiss UPA:
Tuesday, February 23 - Cross-Cultural User-Experience Design (Aaron Marcus)
((HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil) - This one-day tutorial has been presented worldwide since 1999. It is given as a workshop allowing participants to participate in hands-on pen-and-paper exercises that are very engaging: analyzing cultural differences of Websites and designing quickly a home page for a national, government healthcare Website for different countries/cultures.
UPA New York City:
Saturday, February 27 - Saturday workshop on UX Metrics (Bill Albert and Tom Tullis)
(New York, NY) - Limited space. Venue TBD.
Contact Us
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Thanks for reading!
Yours,
Robert Skrobe
Editor - UPA Monthly
About UPA Monthly
The UPA Monthly is sent to all UPA members during the first week of the month. The newsletter usually includes announcements, chapter events, and links to articles on usability and the user experience.
Contributors
The following individuals donate their time and effort to make the UPA Monthly possible:
Nan Chen and Ingrid Liao, Chinese Translations
Maria Jose Palacio (Spanish Chapter), Spanish Translations
Tadashi Kobayashi (HCD-Net), Japanese Translations
Ali Berkman, Turkish Translations
Adriana Betiol - Portuguese Translations