Sean Van Tyne

Sean Van Tyne is a User Experience Architect at Van Tyne Consulting. Van Tyne Consulting helps companies with their user experience strategy, direction, and design process in a variety of markets and solutions including: knowledge management; workflow; enterprise; smart and rich internet applications; location-based; social networks; mash-ups; hardward, software, consumer products and devices for Government, Military, Telcom, Finance, Insurance, Litigation, Medical, and consumer markets.

Website: http://www.vantyneconsulting.com/

Mashups are in your Future! (San Diego, CA, USA)

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
February 27, 2008
5:30 pmto7:30 pm

SDSIC Service Oriented Architecture BIG
February 27, 2008

By 2010 Mashups will be the dominant model for the creation of composite enterprise applications. What is YOUR enterprise Mashup strategy? Sean Van Tyne has assembled a panel of Mashup industry experts for the SDSIC SOA BIG to explore these questions and help you find the right solution for your company.

The event will be held at Websense, 10240 Sorrento Valley Road, San Diego, CA 92121. Registration and Networking is from 5:30 to 6:00 pm and the program runs from 6:00 to 7:30. For additional information and to make your reservation, please visit SDSIC Events.

HCI International 2009 (San Diego, CA, USA)

Friday, January 4th, 2008
July 19, 2009toJuly 24, 2009

HCI International 2009 is an international forum for the dissemination and exchange of up-to-date scientific information on theoretical, generic and applied areas of HCI. The conference includes tutorials, paper sessions, posters and an exhibition.

The Conference focuses on the following major thematic areas:

  • Human–Computer Interaction
  • Ergonomics and Health Aspects of Work with Computers
  • Human Interface and the Management of Information
  • Universal Access in Human–Computer Interaction
  • Virtual and Mixed Reality
  • Online Communities and Social Computing
  • Human Centered Design

This conference is jointly managed with other conferences such as:

  • Symposium on Human Interface (Japan) 2009
  • 8th International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics
  • 3rd International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing
  • 1st International Conference on Human Centered Design

CSCW 08 (San Diego, CA, USA)

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
November 8, 2008toNovember 12, 2008

The 2008 ACM conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2008) is the premier venue for technologies and research related to the role of coordination and communication technologies in our lives.

The conference brings together top researchers and practitioners who are interested in both the technical and social aspects of collaboration.

What We Learn from Our Customers (Oct 10, San Diego, CA, USA)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
October 10, 2007
5:30 pmto7:00 pm

On Wednesday, October 10, 2007, Sean Van Tyne will moderate a panel of User Experience experts from Fortune 500 companies that will share user research case studies, examples, and best practices that can be easily adopted at your company. The event will be held at Intuit (7535 Torrey Santa Fe Road, San Diego, CA). Registration and Networking is from 5:30 to 6:00 pm and the program runs from 6:00 to 7:00. For additional information and to make your reservation, please visit SDSIC Events.

San Diego local chapters

Monday, November 6th, 2006

The following associations in San Diego all participate in the local user experience network.

  • AIGA San Diego: The San Diego local chapter of the American Institute for Graphic Arts is committed to furthering excellence in design as a broadly-defined discipline, strategic tool for business and cultural force.
  • AMA San Diego: The San Diego American Marketing Association Chapter is dedicated to enhancing the local marketing community by offering valuable networking, industry information exchange, educational and career opportunities.
  • San Diego ACM/SIGGRAPH: The San Diego local chapter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics objectives include the promotion of an increased knowledge of and greater interest in the educational, artistic, and scientific aspects and applications of modern computing in computer graphics.
  • San Diego CHI and UPA: The San Diego CHI (Computer-Human Interaction) and San Diego UPA (Usability Professionals Association) mission is to bring together professionals from academia and industry to share ideas, research and practices in order to improve overall quality of HCI and Usability theory and application in San Diego County. This is a combined SIGCHI and UPA chapter.
  • San Diego Software Industry Council: The San Diego Software Industry Council exists to foster and support the entrepreneurial spirit within the software and IT industry in San Diego, by providing an organized forum for the exchange of ideas, sharing of resources, and promotion of industry goals.
  • SD STC: The San Diego local chapter of the Society for Technical Communication is an individual membership organization dedicated to advancing the arts and sciences of technical communication.
  • SDHFES: The San Diego local chapter of the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society mission is to promote the discovery and exchange of knowledge concerning the characteristics of human beings that are applicable to the design of systems and devices of all kinds.
  • UX SIG: At a UX SIG meeting, a company presents a product for a free heuristic review. The product’s design is reviewed in terms of the business goals, target market, customers, and user characteristics. The end result is a list of ways to improve the design to increase revenue and reduce cost.