Items tagged "neoupa"

NEOUPA - An overview of user-centered design at NASA (Cleveland, OH, USA)

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 by Ben Woods
September 16, 2009
6:30 pmto8:30 pm

Michael McCurdy, from NASA, San Jose CA, will join us to discuss NASA’s effort to incorporate user-centered design into their design process.

Registration and more information here.

Meeting Time: 6:30-8:30pm

* 6:30-6:45pm- Food & socializing
* 6:45-7:00pm - NEOUPA business
* 7:00-8:30pm - 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.

NEOUPA - Conference Round Up (Cleveland, OH, USA)

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 by Ben Woods
July 15, 2009
6:30 pmto8:30 pm

Limited or no budget to attend an industry conference this year?  Learn key takeaways first hand from recent event attendees from the UPA conference, South by Soutwest, IA Summit, Internet User Experience, and more.  Hope to see you there!

Please register, so we know how much pizza to buy!

Meeting Time: 6:30-8:30pm

  • 6:30-6:45pm- Food & socializing
  • 6:45-7:00pm - NEOUPA business
  • 7:00-8:30pm - Discussion, Informal Presentations, Q & A

Meeting cost

  • Free event for all

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.

Register here.

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

Monday, May 18th, 2009 by Ben Woods
May 20, 2009
6:30 pmto8:30 pm

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

Measuring User Enjoyment (Cleveland, OH, USA)

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 by Ben Woods
February 18, 2009
6:30 pmto8:30 pm

Lauren Murphy (Ernst & Young) will be presenting on the topic of Hedonomics, a presentation she gave at the Human Factors Ergonomics Society 52nd Annual Meeting. The presentation title is:
An Hedonomic Evaluation of the Effect of Repeated
system Exposure on Pleasurable Human-System Experience.

Abstract: We report on two studies of the mere exposure effect on the occurrence of flow. Findings reveal that: (a) pleasurable human-system experience increased linearly with repeated exposure to the technology of interest; (b) an habituation effect
of flow was mediated by day; (c) performance was positively correlated to flow. Suggestions for future research directions for Hedonomics include mitigating the habituation of flow effect by incorporating an adaptive hedonomic design to reduce the effect of boredom that comes with familiar stimuli an approach that enables the user to create a balance between typicality and novelty in order to allow for changing cultural norms and personal change over time.

Lauren Murphy graduated with her Ph.D in Psychology from the Applied Experimental Human Factors Psychology program at the University of Central Florida.  Her research interests include  Hedonomics or that branch of science and design dedicated to promoting pleasurable human-technology interaction. Today, as a user experience analyst at Ernst & Young, Lauren focuses on the user’s experience while interacting with applications and she is continually working to improve their experience and enjoyment of that interaction.

Meeting Time: 6:30-8:30pm

  • 6:30 - 6:45 pm - Food & socializing
  • 6:45 - 7:00 pm - NEOUPA business
  • 7:00 - 8:00 pm - Lauren Murphy presentation
  • 8:00 - 8:30 pm - Q & A and wrap-up

Meeting cost

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

Directions

Ernst & Young LLP
925 Euclid Ave - 15th Floor
Cleveland, Ohio 44115

Ernst & Young is located in the Huntington Building on Euclid Avenue near E. 9th Street.  Once in the building, there are three banks of elevators, people should take the 12 – 17 bank of elevators to the 15th floor. We will meet everyone at the 15th floor and escort them to the conference room.

Please have a photo id available and ask for directions to the NEOUPA meeting.  Sarah Bond is the E&Y contact, if an employee name is requested.

Parking is available on Chester Ave. in the Huntington Bldg parking garage, on Euclid Ave. at the Statler parking garage or on East 9th at the Tower Garage. Each Garage has it’s own parking rate.

The Huntington Bank Parking lot costs $5 after 3:00 on normal nights. It is connected to the E&Y office by an underground walkway. The address of the parking lot is 947 Chester Ave. You can also come to downtown Cleveland on Route 2 (Shoreway), exit at East 9th, turn left onto Chester and then park. That way you avoid the East 9th construction.

To get to the E&Y building from the Huntington parking lot, take the elevator to the basement. Turn right out of the elevator. Walk through the tunnel. then through the revolving door, across the mall and up the escalator. It is all a straight shot from the elevator, just giving landmarks so people will know they are on the right path. Now use the elevator marked 12 -17 to go to the 13th floor. It is all covered and connected, so it will keep you out of the weather.

Another parking option is the Statler parking garage, only $3.25 after 5, but it is on Euclid Ave. To get to E & Y from the Statler, walk out to Euclid, turn right towards East 9th. The office is the nice building at 925 Euclid with the brass revolving doors.

Register here.

Hot Topics (after a cold winter) - (Cleveland, OH, USA)

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 by Ben Woods
March 28, 2008
6:00 pmto9:00 pm

If you’ve ever attended a NEOUPA event and thought to yourself - gee, I’d really love to present at one of these events, but what would I talk about for an hour? - here’s your chance to speak without a heavy commitment. We’re interested in putting together a roundtable discussion for Thursday March 28 that would feature a half dozen or so NEOUPA people talking about whatever is top of mind for you right now in your work. Have you found a great tool or website that has made your work as a UX professional easier? Have you recently completed some research that you’d like to share with a larger group outside your organization? The time commitment would be 5-10 minutes of talking, maybe some show and tell via the web or Powerpoint, and then discussion with the audience. We want this to be a collaborative environment where everyone has a chance to contribute.

If you are interested in speaking at this event, please email us as soon as possible. And if this date doesn’t work for you, but you’d like to speak at a future event, please let us know!

NEOUPA planning (Orange Village, OH, USA)

Saturday, March 1st, 2008 by Keith Instone
March 10, 2008
6:30 pm

Volunteer to serve on the board or on one of the planning committees of NEOUPA, the Northeast Ohio chapter of the  Usability Professionals’ Association. The Vice President and Secretary positions on the board are currently open and we also need people to serve on the Events, Membership, and Website planning committees. If you are interested in any of these roles, please come to Red Robin (just off 271 between Harvard and Chagrin) on Monday, March 10 at 6:30pm to learn more about how you can help.