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The Relationship of Visual Design and Perceptions of Credibility (Cleveland, OH, USA)

Consumer Health Information on the Web: The Relationship of Visual Design and Perceptions of Credibility

Web sites that provide health-related information have proliferated on the web since the early 1990s.

Since virtually anyone can produce and publish a web site, consumers of health-related information must be able to effectively judge the credibility of information found on the web.

This presentation reports the results of a study that examined the relationship between people’s visual design preferences and their judgments of credibility of information on consumer health information sites.

Subjects were asked to rate their preferences for visual designs of 31 health information sites after a very brief viewing. The sites were then reordered and subjects rated them according to the extent to which they thought the information on the sites was credible.

Presenter Bio

David Robins is an Assistant Professor in the Interdisciplinary Program in Information Architecture and Knowledge Management (IAKM) at Kent State University.

He teaches courses in information design, information architecture, usability and content management systems. David is conducting research in information architecture, web standards, usability, and the impact of aesthetics on web site credibility and usability.

Dr. Robins has an undergraduate degree from Colorado State University (Bachelor of Fine Arts), a Master of Science (Library Science) from the University of North Texas, and a Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of North Texas.

Meeting Time: 6:30-8:30pm

• 6:30-6:45pm- Food & socializing
• 6:45-7:00pm - NEOUPA business
• 7:00-8:30pm - Informal presentation with Q & A

Meeting cost

• Free Events for NEOUPA members$10 for non-members

Directions

Progressive Insurance
6300 Wilson Mills Road
Mayfield Village, Ohio 44143

The Progressive Campus is located off the Wilson Mills Road exit on I-271. Check in at the Visitor’s Center in the West Building at the 6300 Wilson Mills Rd. Campus.

The meeting will be in the Campus 1 West Lower Wintergarden room.

Registration is at http://www.neoupa.org/Default.aspx?pageId=11863&eventId=60952&EventViewMode=EventDetails

Posted in Calendar | Cleveland, OH, USA | Local meeting | UPA
Tags: Cleveland, OH, USA | Medical | neoupa | OH | research | upa | USA | Usability
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HFE & medical devices (Ann Arbor, MI, USA)

Red Forest Consulting is hosting “Human Factors Engineering & Medical Device Workshop” in Ann Arbor, Michigan on June 15-16, 2009. Learn:

• The basics of HFE and why it leads to better products and a competitive advantage
• How it can help with new product innovation and development
• How to apply HFE methods with hands-on exercises
• How HFE can be used with innovation tools such as Six-Sigma and TRIZ

See redforestconsulting.com for more information.

Posted in Ann Arbor, MI, USA | Calendar | Training
Tags: Medical
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UXnet Medical Industry Group

MINNEAPOLIS-ST.PAUL, MN (U.S.) - September 7, 2008 - The User Experience Network (UXnet), the only international not-for-profit organization dedicated to building the user experience industry, announced a special interest group for the medical industry today. Under the leadership of Suzanne Currie, a long-time connector in the user experience community and an active practitioner in the medical industry, the group will connect professionals who are involved with or interested in user experience throughout healthcare, for the purpose of growing a dedicated community.

“The medical industry is faced with some of the greatest user experience challenges today,” said Currie. “We hope to bring together top practitioners into a dedicated professional group that provides assistance and support to one another while injecting leadership to the practice of user experience in the medical area.”

Initially a virtual effort, the UXnet Medical Industry Group hopes to use online connection and participation as a springboard toward creating physical community and professional relationships. Among other tools, the popular professional website LinkedIn will provide early networking infrastructure. Interested participants can sign up for the group on LinkedIn.

“The healthcare industry touches some of the most personal and important interactions that people have in their lives,” said Dirk Knemeyer, President of UXnet. “It is also one of the largest growth industries in the world and truly demands the attention of user experience as a professional discipline. We hope this group is able to provide an invaluable service to the many practitioners who are hard at work solving these very personal and complicated design problems.”

UXnet creates effective, functional and strategic networks to enable cross-disciplinary collaboration between user experience professionals. We connect people, organizations, resources and ideas to enable the growth and maturation of User Experience as a practice, a community and eventually a discipline. For more information about UXnet, please contact Keith Instone, instone [at] uxnet.org.

Posted in Announcements | Medical | News
Tags: linkedin | Medical
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