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UsabilityNJ’s First Design Slam

Please join us for UsabilityNJ’s first Design Slam. Contestants will participate in a fast-paced race to create the best design solution to a real-world problem. There’s an award with your name on it!

What’s a “design slam”?
Team up with other participants to solve a design problem as part of a full-fledged hypothetical project, including appropriate client-side deliverables. You will have an opportunity to interview key players on the client’s team. The session will conclude with proposal presentations from each of the groups to the “clients” and the assembled audience. The “clients” team will choose a winner, and the winning team will receive a plethora of praise from your peers and an award.

What’s in it for me?
This is a chance for interested IAs, designers, usability practitioners, developers and marketing professionals to get their hands dirty, working side-by-side with colleagues as they tackle tough business problems in a fun and sometimes crazy environment. Knowledge transfer, technique sharing, and a social atmosphere makes this session different from a “lecture-and- Powerpoint” presentation.

If you do not want to participate because you won’t be able to get to the meeting on time or a have severe case of social phobia, fear not! We would like to have an audience during this session to play the role of users, and help choose the winning team.

Whose big idea is this?
This idea is shamelessly stolen (with permission) from the IA Summit’s IA Slam.

When and where?
Exact location not yet announced.

If you would like to participate, please RSVP to giaimojosephine at yahoo.com. There are plenty of participation spaces and spectators are welcome!

Posted in Calendar | Local meeting | New York City, NY, USA | UPA
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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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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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World Usability Day NJ: Innovations in Healthcare (Princeton, NJ, USA)

• Health Care Demonstrations
• Invited Speakers
  • Laura Keller & Mark McCognahy - “Designs from Experience”
  • Dr. Judy Deutsch - Virtual reality for stroke rehabilitation
• Panel discussion

See UPA New Jersey for more information.

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