Whitney Quesenbery

Wireless, Wimax & Mobile 2008 and Beyond (NYC, NY, USA)

A a breakfast and panel discussion featuring leading technology innovators on:

Wireless, Wimax & Mobile 2008 and Beyond: The future of Communications

The panel includes:

• Eric Bader, MediaVest
• Laura Forlano, Visiting Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale
  Law School
• Dana Spiegel. Executive Director of NYCWireless
• Ari Zoldan, CEO and Founder of Launch 3 Communications
• Moderator: Sree Sreenivasan, WNBC’s technology reporter

LOCATION:
SobelMedia World Headquarters
4 West 43rd Street/Main Ballroom
New York, NY 10036

Please RSVP to:nymieg@gmail.com

Register at: http://bsobel.googlepages.com/nymiegeventregistration.
Members $30/Non-Members and Guests $50

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Trenton Computer Festival (Trenton, NJ, USA)

TCF-2008, the 33rd Trenton Computer Festival is scheduled for Saturday & Sunday April 26th & 27th, with an affiliated IT Professional Conference on Friday April 25th. All events will be held at The College of New Jersey in Ewing, NJ.

This may not seem like “user experience” territory, but it might be an opportunity to speak to an audience of computer and technology developers about interaction design, usability or any other user experience topic.

Call for proposals:
The focus this year will be on providing “hands on experiences” at TCF. We are looking for talks and tutorial workshop proposals on all forms of digital and information/communications technology (including robotics, computer control of home, environment, etc.), education, podcasting, gaming and digital home entertainment, digital photography, digital wireless technology, networking and VOIP. We are also planning a special speaker track on robotics.

If you have an idea for a talk or workshop/tutorial session for a general audience at the TCF Saturday/Sunday sessions, please fill out the Speaker Application Form at: http://www.tcf-nj.org/spkr_reg.html

If you are interested in presenting at the Friday IT Professional Conference, which focuses on briefings intended for those working in the computer industry, please see http://princetonacm.acm.org/tcfpro/speaker.html and contact David Soll at dsoll at omicron.com.

Proposals must be received by February 3rd. Corporate sponsorship is also invited. For more information contact: Allen Katz, TCF Speaker ProgramChairperson, by email at a.katz at ieee.org

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Deconstructing Elements of the iPhone’s Interface Through Usability - UsabilityNJ - (Morristown, NJ, USA)

Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Time: Social hour starts at 6:30 PM. Presentation starts at 7:00 PM.
Location: Logical Design Solutions, 131 Madison Ave., Morristown, NJ (directions). The meeting will be in the Executive Conference room on the 2nd floor.
More information: UsabilityNJ web site

Join UsabilityNJ and speaker Gavin Lew, Managing Director of UserCentric, for a look at the iPhone interface.

The well-publicized launch of Apple’s iPhone with its multi-touch user interface was the subject of a program of research conducted by User Centric. Many articles were written on the “wow” factor of the iPhone, but almost all reviews were based on opinion or anecdotal references. User Centric’s objective was to assess the iPhone’s usability from a more rigorous user experience research perspective. In short, the goal was to assess performance, satisfaction and usage employing quantitative and qualitative measures with actual users who were naïve to the testing procedures and purposes.

The results from this series of studies will be discussed at this session. With each study, key objectives were defined with specific measures, methodologies and participant groups to target device features and interactions. Each study will be described in detail with time for questions from the audience.

The findings of some of the early studies have been published. As with any research where opinion, conjecture, and pundits are abundant, some of the findings have generated controversy.
A longer description of the talk is posted on the UsabilityNJ web site.

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Sustainable Interactions - IxDA Panel (New York City, NY, USA)

When: Thursday, January 24, 2008. 6:30 PM.
Where: Midtown Manhattan.
Details provided on RSVP, please e-mail: nyc-rsvp (at) ixda (dot) org

Join IxDA NYC and our panelists to discuss how interaction designers can practice our work in a more sustainable and socially conscious way. Come and find out what our industry visionaries and experts are doing in this area and what you can do to change the world for a better tomorrow. We will get a chance to look at some projects people are doing in service, product design and eco-visualization. We will provide an evening of conversations with the panelists and give you intriguing examples from the field to challenge the notion of how interaction design can make great social impact.

Moderator: Robert Fabricant, Frog Design

Panelists:
Allan Chochinov, Core77.com
Jennifer Van de Meer, O2NYC
Sean White, Columbia University
Tom Igoe, NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program

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@issue Business and Design Conference (New York City, NY, USA)

The 3rd @issue Business and Design Conference will be in New York at the new New York Times building on Tuesday, 29 April 2008. There will be some tours before and after the conference. Confirmed speakers include:

• Brian Walker, Chairman and CEO, Herman Miller and John Hoke, VP Footwear design Nike and member Herman Miller Board of Directors)
• Joe Mansueto, CEO and Founder, Morningstar and David Williams, Design Director, Morningstar
• Nancye Green, CEO, Waterworks andDavid Schaefer, Creative Director, Waterworks
• David Thurm, VP and Chief Information Office, New York Times and Michael Beirut, Partner, Pentagram and Ed Wood, Principal, Gensler
• Ruth Shuman, President and Founder, Publicolor

Cost: $575 ($425 for Corporate Design Foundation members).

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UPA Europe (Turin, Italy)

The first European regional conference of the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) will take place on December 4th, 5th and 6th, 2008 in Turin, Italy, when the city is also the 2008 World Design Capital.

The conference is taking place in the Italian city of Turin which will then also organise a large variety of activities as the first ever World Design Capital – a title it was awarded by ICSID (the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design). Reflecting this context, the UPA conference will particularly focus on usability and design.

See www.upaeurope2008.org for more information and how to get involved.

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NYC UX Holiday Party 2007 (New York, NY, USA)

Once again all the New York City experience design people of various ilk (IA Institute, IxDA, NYCCHI, UPA, STC, North Pole Toy Designer Association…) will gather together to celebrate another year of wonderful experiences designed. Please join us!
Tuesday, December 11, 6:30 pm
Eight Mile Creek
240 Mulberry St (Map)

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World Usability Day NJ (USA)

The UsabilityNJ event for World Usability Day went from the afternoon into the evening. People from the business community came to hear Dr. Charles Kreitzberg’s Web 2.0 seminar in the afternoon, and some stayed for the evening program, or went home and brought back family members with connections to healthcare in one way or another. The exhibits and demos of research work in the medical arena were particularly exciting, with representation from the Rutgers Engineering, LIS, and medical schools, as well as from NJIT and locally active industry, such as Siemens. Several times during the evening, the press of people in that part of the hall created a mini traffic jam.

Then we heard presentations from industry, with Laura Keller of MISI and Mark McCognahy of imc² speaking about work they had done on informational websites in the pharmaceutical area. And a very interesting presentation from academia, with Dr. Judith Deutsch of UMDNJ speaking about research work on uses of technology in physical therapy and remotely supporting rehabilitation of patients with motor damage from stroke.

Then, to top off our evening of lively information-sharing and discussion, a panel presented varying views on the innovations and the future of healthcare. Chaired by James Barrood, Director of the Rothman Institute of Entrepreneurial Studies at Silberman College of Business-Fairleigh Dickinson University, the panel included Bill Jensen, Dr. Charles Kreitzberg, Dr. Elizabeth Avery Gomez, and Tom Reynolds. Since the group represented academia, pharmaceuticals, usability professionals, and an expert on work complexity, the discussion was lively and challenged viewpoints in every direction.

UsabilityNJ runs a Yahoo group, and welcomes members from the entire NY/NJ/PA/DE area.

(Report by Alice Preston)

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Book Launch: “Money Jungle” by Ben Chesluk (New York, NY, USA)

Interested in Times Square, architecture, urban ethnography, or just want a few nibbles? Drop by Le Madeleine, 403 W. 43rd St. on Monday 3 December from noon to 1:30 pm for the launch of anthrodesigner Ben Chesluk’s “Money Jungle: Imagining the New Times Square.”

The jacket blurb says “Chesluk weaves together surprising stories of everyday life in and around the Times Square redevelopment, tracing the connections between people from every level of this grand project in social and spatial engineering.”

One review says, “The strength of this book lies in Chesluk’s ability to ground his ethnographic inquiries with a historically informed sensibility of the cultural career of redevelopment efforts in Times Square. Unique and innovative, Money Jungle represents an important contribution to urban anthropology and to the studies of cities generally.”

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Using the Semantic Web: Interaction Design Clinic with Duane Degler (West Trenton, NJ)

UsabilityNJ, New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Company, and PhillyCHI will host a one-day clinic looking at new interaction concepts and capabilities arising from Semantic Web research, including a “guided tour” demonstrating existing sites that illustrate the opportunities, issues, and implications for people who actually use the Semantic Web. What makes this clinic most valuable is that the afternoon is dedicated to discussing your projects and sites, to identify where simple design/implementation opportunities may exist now.

We will take a task-based approach to exploring the subject. We will cover:

• Navigating information sites and distributed collections
• Creating and sharing information
• Interacting using natural language
• Identifying terminology to optimize search and navigation
• Managing/creating vocabulary and relationships
• Personal and social issues: provenance, transparency, shared data and privacy

Registration for the seminar is limited to 25 participants on a first come first served basis. This seminar is provided free, in return for feedback on how the clinic series can be refined and improved.The clinic will be held at New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Company in West Trenton, NJ.

Details, directions and registration: http://www.usabilitynj.org/meeting_details/dec2007_details.html

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