Items tagged "research"

Utilisabilité et développement durable : une évidence?

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 by Nathalie Berger

Il est possible de visualiser et télécharger les présentations et vidéos des conférenciers de la Journée mondiale de l’utilisabilité (ou World Usability Day), qui s’est tenue à Montréal et Québec en simultanée.

Des sujets variés — incluant les «design patterns», l’ergonomie, le marketing, l’ingénierie, l’adaptabilité des sites internationaux en contextes locaux — célèbrent l’apport de l’utilisabilité et de l’expérience utilisateur dans le développement de produits faciles à apprendre et à utiliser, efficients et efficaces.

Au programme également, une recherche exploratoire réalisée en partenariat par le HEC Montréal, l’Université de Montréal et Bell Canada. Celle-ci combine l’oculométrie aux mesures psychologiques et émotionnelles, afin d’évaluer la qualité d’un site Web. Comme dirait Sandrine, «toute une triangulation méthodologique (ou casse-tête de données selon certains…;-))». Bien sûr, l’oculométrie (ou la poursuite oculaire) a une application plutôt restreinte en réalité. En effet, avec les budgets restreints de la plupart des sites au Québec, on a en général bien d’autres facteurs à évaluer avant celui-là, qui auront plus d’impact sur le produit final. Mais c’est intéressant d’avoir l’occasion de se voir relater un cas de recherche appliquée, avec un protocole d’expérimentation formel, qui inclut cette dimension supplémentaire.

Cette belle soirée sur l’utilisabilité a permis à près de 90 membres de la communauté – spécialistes ou non – d’apprendre et d’échanger sur les bonnes pratiques du métier, dans un optique de développement durable.

Journée mondiale de l’utilisabilité / World Usability Day, in Montreal & Quebec : 12 novembre

Monday, November 9th, 2009 by Nathalie Berger

World Usability Day Logo

Utilisabilité et développement durable. Telle sera la thématique de la 5e Journée mondiale de l’utilisabilité (World Usability Day) qui se tiendra ce jeudi 12 novembre. Utilisabilité Québec se joint une fois de plus aux initiatives locales organisées un peu partout dans le monde, à la suite de l’association «mère» américaine, la Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA).

À Montréal et Québec, nous nous intéresserons tout particulièrement au thème suivant : Utilisabilité et développement durable : une évidence? À travers une série de conférences sur divers sujets — allant des «design patterns», aux mesures psychologiques et émotionnelles, en passant par l’adaptabilité des sites internationaux en contextes locaux — nous célébrerons l’apport de l’utilisabilité et de l’expérience utilisateur dans le développement de produits faciles à apprendre et à utiliser, efficients et efficaces. Et ce, partout dans le monde.

Pour ma part, l’angle qui m’interpelle particulièrement en lien avec cette thématique générale est le suivant : À l’ère du «budget-temps limité», comment développer des sites Web viables? J’en parlerai davantage dans un prochain blogue et j’introduirai d’ailleurs succintement la soirée de la JMU avec cet optique. Au plaisir de vous rencontrer jeudi soir! Ça débute à 18h au CRIM de Montréal et au Cégep de Ste-Foy pour Québec (diffusion simultanée entre les 2 villes). Également, un clin d’oeil sera fait à une de nos associations cousines, la FLUPA (section France-Luxembourg d’UPA), sous forme d’entrevues pré-enregistrées (décalage horaire obligeant). Une pause réseautage est prévue accompagnée d’un cocktail. Tous les détails sur le site d’Utilisabilité Québec.

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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.

Journée mondiale de l’utilisabilité / Usability Day (Montréal, Québec)

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 by Nathalie Berger
November 7, 2008
6:00 pm

La thématique de cette quatrième édition de la JMU est l’utilisabilité dans les transports.

Utilisabilité Québec, section québécoise du Usability Professionals’ Association, célébrera l’événement à Montréal (au CRIM) et à Québec en simultané, dans une Formule «5 à 7», de 18h à 20h.
La Journée mondiale de l’utilisabilité (World Usability Day) a pour but de promouvoir le concept de l’utilisabilité à travers différents pays par l’organisation d’activités soulignant l’apport de la discipline de l’utilisabilité pour le développement de produits faciles à apprendre, faciles à utiliser, efficients et efficaces.

D’autres détails vous seront communiqués prochainement.
Vous trouverez ici un aperçu de la JMU de l’an dernier (8 novembre 2007).
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What is World Usability Day?
It’s about making our world work better. It’s about “Making Life Easy” and user friendly. This year’s theme is Usability in Transportation.In order to humanize a world that uses technology as an infrastructure for education, healthcare, transportation, government, communication, entertainment, work and other areas, we must develop these technologies in a way that serves people first…

World Usability Day was founded in 2005 as an initiative of the Usability Professionals’ Association to ensure that services and products important to human life are easier to access and simpler to use.

Each year, over 225 events are organized in over 40 countries around the world to raise awareness for the general public, and train professionals in the tools and issues central to good usability research, development and practice.

User Research in the Design Process (Cleveland, OH, USA)

Monday, September 29th, 2008 by Ben Woods
October 8, 2008
6:30 pmto9:30 pm

Ever stared at a blank Photoshop screen and just needed to “get started designing”? Ever been handed a 40 page spec sheet that you needed to build from? Ever wonder if this feature should even be built in the first place?

Not to be confused with usability testing—user research can help get client, designer and developer all on the same side of the table. A solid understanding of the user leads not only to true “usability” but even better ideas to build in the first place. With the right combination of tools and process—even designers and developers will demand user research with every project to the benefit of all.

Vince Frantz is an information designer and principal of Frantz I.D. Since 1996, he has spearheaded a broad scope of design projects across web, intra/extranet, print and motion media. Prior to that, Vince was an interaction designer and illustrator at Root Learning, Inc. After many years doing design and development, in 2005 he began designing a new form of organization that would enhance the user centered design and development process. In June of 2006, Sprokets launched as his own “ideal client” that would always align business strategy with end-user needs. Vince also founded the non-profit Public Square Group to help cities in Northeast Ohio employ a user centered approach to the design and development of sustainable skateboard parks.

RSVP for this event on Upcoming.org

This event will be held at American Greetings headquarters so you will be required to sign in with security and get a visitor’s badge.

AnthroDesign + UX Irregulars with Steve Portigal

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 by Kaleem
July 30, 2008
7:00 pmto10:00 pm

(via Sam Ladner)

Steve Portigal is in town and for this special occasion, we’re inviting a “crossing of the streams.”

The UX Irregulars group is also invited! For those of you who don’t know the UX Irregulars, they’re a rag-tag, fugutive fleet of user experience designers who design mostly Web interactions, but also software, and sometimes crazy things like ski hills. They LOVE anthropologists. No really, they do.

Steve is the founder of Portigal Consulting, a boutique firm that helps clients to discover and act on new insights about themselves and their customers.

Upcoming
upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945571
rurl.org/wem

Victory Cafe
581 Markham Street
www.victorycafe.ca

AnthroDesign (Toronto, ON, Canada)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 by Kaleem
June 11, 2008
7:00 pmto10:00 pm

Meet designers, anthropologists, business peeps, and maybe a sociologist or two! We’ll talk about translating insights into product design (loosely defined).

Where
Pauper’s Pub street-level patio
539 Bloor Street West

Google Maps
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=539+Bloor+St.+W.,+Toronto,+ON

UXIrregulars June (Toronto, ON, Canada)

Monday, June 9th, 2008 by Kaleem
June 10, 2008
6:30 pm

We’re meeting at our usual place (Duke of Devon patio) and time (second Tuesday of every month).

Current forecast is 26 C & mostly sunny - perfect for an evening on the patio for discussions about all things UX and beyond with friends & colleagues. Newcomers are always welcome so bring a friend.

The Duke is accessible underground via the PATH network from King, Union & St. Andrew TTC subway stations so on the off-chance it rains (Weather Network predicts a 30% chance) you don’t even have to step
outside!

If you’re on Upcoming, please indicate if you plan to attend so we have numbers for what will surely be a busy patio

Where
Duke of Devon (patio)
Toronto Dominion Centre, TD Tower
66 Wellington Street West (just West of Bay & Wellington)
Toronto, Ontario M5K 1H1
Google Maps
http://tinyurl.com/3ba24u
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=66+Wellington+Street+West,+Toronto,+ON

Upcoming.org
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/778494/