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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Bill Albert, Director, DUC 04/22/09
Check this out: Director of the Design and Usability Center (DUC), Dr. Bill Albert, speaks to the class, Friday, April 24, 2009.Here is a portion of Bill's bio from the DUC site:
"Bill Albert is Director of the Design and Usability Center at Bentley University. Bill brings more than 15 years of experience in human factors, usability, and user research to his role leading the center. Bill has expertise in user interface design, information architecture, qualitative and quantitative research techniques, and user experience strategy. Prior to joining Bentley, Bill was Director of User Experience at Fidelity Investments, Senior User Interface Researcher at Lycos, and Post-Doctoral Research Scientist at Cambridge Basic Research. Bill is also a regular instructor at the International Usability Professional?s Association Annual Conference and at Bentley University.Bill has published and presented his research at more than thirty national and international conferences. He recently co-authored (with Tom Tullis) the first ever book on usability metrics, Measuring the User Experience, published by Elsevier/Morgan Kauffman in March, 2008. He is currently working on his second book (with Tom Tullis and Donna Tedesco), focusing on automated usability testing (to be published by Elsevier/Morgan Kauffman in January 2010). He has been on the International Usability Professional?s Association Annual Conference (UPA) Committee since 2003, and the International Usability Professional?s Association Global Advisory Committee since 2007."
Class will meet in the DUC testing suite after first convening in Smith 210 at 11:20. Feel free to bring a friend or acquaintance who might be interested in learning more about usability and the facilities at Bentley.
If you have questions, just e-mail me at wbuchholz@bentley.edu. Feel free to comment on this announcement, or if you want to e-mail it, click on the little mail icon directly below.
Labels: Bill Albert, Design and Usability Center, DUC, Tom Tullis, usability, usability test, User experience
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Christopher Hass Speaks about Web Accessibility 04/03/09
Check this out:Here are some of the topics Chris will cover:
- What is a disability? What?s the difference between a situational and a functional disability?
- What are assistive technologies that affect Web use, and how familiar does one need to be with them?
- What is accessibility? From both legal and practical standpoints
- What/who governs Web- and software-based products in the US and abroad
- Understanding the letter AND the spirit of the law ? advocating for ?usable access? not just ?access?
- What coding solutions typically support or fail to support accessibility
- What decisions can able-bodied developers make as opposed to testing with persons who have disabilities
- Case examples from DVD development, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Web site development, HP.com?s commercial Web site, others
- The perils and challenges of ?Web 2.0? for persons with disabilities
- ROI benefits of accessible design
Brief Bio:
Chris Hass has more than 12 years of experience in human factors research, user interface design, and accessibility in the development of innovative user experience programs. Chris has unique expertise conducting human factors research with persons with physical and cognitive disabilities, a skill that strategically aligns with one of the center's key growth areas. He also brings extensive experience designing information architecture and interaction designs for consumer, medical, professional, and human service products. Prior to joining the Design and Usability Center, Chris worked at the American Institutes for Research, where he was a senior research scientist in the Human Factors Research and Design group. Previously, he served as a World Wide Web specialist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass.
If you have questions, just e-mail me at wbuchholz@bentley.edu. Feel free to comment on this announcement, or if you want to e-mail it, click on the little mail icon directly below.
Labels: accessibility, DUC, human factors, usability, web design
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Sunday, April 20, 2008
Usability Testing: Don't Make Me Think! 04/21/08
Check this out:
We'll be examining usability testing on Tuesday, April 22, so please bring Steve Krug's text Don't Make Me Think! to class. I will walk you through a few of the most crucial aspects of usability testing, so it would be a good idea for you to be able to follow along in Krug's eminently readable text.You will also receive an actual usability test that we will walk through in class, preparing you for your final assignment test treatment. The last half hour of the class will be devoted to viewing a videotaped usability test.
Thursday's class (April 24) will be spent in Smith 223, the Design and Usability Center (DUC) class room near the main testing suite (directly across from the trading room). DUC director, Beth Loring, will talk to you about her career and usability testing here at Bentley. We will also tour the testing suite.
If you have questions, just e-mail me at wbuchholz@bentley.edu. Feel free to comment on this announcement, or if you want to e-mail it, click on the little mail icon directly below.
Labels: Beth Loring, Design and Usability Center, DUC, krug, usability test
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
IDCC is the Place for Usability and User Experience Careers 01/24/08
Check this out:I want to share a few links relative to usability and user experience careers, for those of you still thinking creatively about your profession.
US News reports that the Usability/User Experience Specialist is one of the best careers in America (2008), making its list of 31 careers with a bright future: http://www.usnews.com/features/business/best-careers
/best-careers-2008.html
Their executive summary of the Usability/User Experience Specialist offers a brief overview with interesting links: http://www.usnews.com/articles/business/best-
careers/2007/12/19/usabilityuser-experience-
specialist-executive-summary.html
Here is a list of schools offering graduate degrees in software ergonomics. As you can see, Bentley tops this list of exceptional universities?nothing like alpha order?.: http://www.humanfactors.com/downloads/degrees.asp
You should also check out our world famous Design and Usability Center (DUC) right here at Bentley: http://www.bentley.edu/usability/
If you have questions, just e-mail me at wbuchholz@bentley.edu. Feel free to comment on this announcement, or if you want to e-mail it, click on the little mail icon directly below.
Labels: careers, Design and Usability Center, DUC, usability, User experience
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