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New Jersey World Usability Day–Transportation (New York, NY)

Celebrate 4TH Annual World Usability Day, November 13th, Rutgers CoRE
Building, Piscataway, NJ

“PANELISTS ADDRESS THE FUTURE OF TRANSPORTATION AT USABILITY DAY IN
PISCATAWAY, NJ”

The panel brings Professor Thomas H. Wakeman (Center for Maritime
Systems, Stevens Institute of Technology), Professor Hani Nassif
(Rutgers The State University, School of Engineering), Bill Neary
(Executive Director, Keep Middlesex Moving), and Jeffrey Kashinsky
(New York City Transit Authority), together with moderator Steve
Ellis, Ph.D. (The KOHL Group, Inc.).

THEME:  Transportation

WHEN:  Thursday, November 13th, 2008, 4:00 PM - 9:30 PM

WHERE:  CoRE Building, 96 Freylinghuysen Road, Busch Campus, Rutgers
The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey
(http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/?q=node/23)

COST:  Free.  World Usability Day is free and open to everyone.  Food
and refreshments served.

The program includes:

–Demonstrations of new designs for transportation, including
vehicles, highways, and signs
–Keynote speakers from transportation schools and corporations
–Expert panel with presenters from usability, transportation, and
business enterprises
–Photo contest of most “unusable” signage, open to all, evaluated by
usability “luminaries”

Demonstrations from several academic and corporate laboratories,
including Rutgers University, Princeton University, and New Jersey
Transit, are featured.  For more program details, visit
wud.usabilitynj.org  and  www.worldusabilityday.org.

What is the future of transportation?  Where are we going and how will
we get there?  Join the Fourth Annual World Usability Day to hear
ideas from a panel of leading experts in the fields of usability,
research, industrial design and the transportation industry.  Each
panelist has years of experience developing, designing or providing
products and services for clients in the transportation industry.

“This panel brings practical knowledge of innovations to our audience
of professionals in human factors, engineering, computer science, and
transportation as well as students, entrepreneurs, and the business
community,” says UsabilityNJ Event Chair and New Jersey resident John
Chin. “Today, teams of computer scientists, engineers, usability
specialists, and transportation innovators are working together. They
face similar challenges. They must design for diverse customers,
drivers, travellers, and transportation providers.”

“Our panelists know that innovations in transportation are an
important part of the economy in New Jersey.  They have worked on
innovations that improve daily transportation, and enhance our public
safety,” said Ronnie Battista, President of UsabilityNJ and New Jersey
resident.  “Furthermore, they know the importance of accessible
transportation products for all of us, whatever our abilities to see,
hear, or move.”  This World Usability Day event is presented by
UsabilityNJ, the New Jersey chapter of the Usability Professionals’
Association.

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Usability & Interaction Inside NYC Taxis: Design Lessons Learned (New York, NY)

Please join the NYC Usability Professionals’ Association for this special World Usability Day (www.worldusabilityday.org) presentation:Usability & Interaction Inside NYC Taxis: Design Lessons Learned
What can taxis teach user experience professionals? Design strategist Rachel Abrams spent two years looking at New York through yellow lenses, researching the city’s cab industry. She’ll share the broader design lessons she learned, revealing how those who usually design for the digital world can approach designing for objects and experiences in the real world, how the power of storytelling can elucidate the value of and patterns in data, and where the opportunities lie for service designers working in public space.

Speaker:      Rachel AbramsDate:           Thursday, November 13, 2008

Time:              6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
                   Please arrive by 6pm to allow time to get through security.
Photo ID required by security to enter building.
It must match the name on the registration list.
          Schedule
          6:00 – 6:30 pm Registration, networking and refreshments
          6:30 – 6:45 pm Announcements
6:45 – 7:45 pm Presentation + 15 minutes for Q&A
8-ish - ?? pm  Optional dinner at a nearby restaurant*
            *Please note that dinner is an optional, post-event social activity and is not included
in the event fee. Each person is responsible for his/her own drink and dining expenses.

Location:      277 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10017
(between 47th & 48th on EAST side of street)
                        Map:   click here for map to the locationCost:           NYC-UPA members & Non-members: $15
Non-members with 1 year membership: $30
Full-time students: $5 (please provide valid student ID)

                   Note: For this event we are not able to offer discounted member pricing.

RSVP:           NO EMAIL RSVPs ACCEPTED FOR THIS EVENT
                    Please purchase a guaranteed ticket at the event registration site:
http://nycupawud08.eventbrite.comRegistration closes at 4 pm Wednesday, November 12, 2008 (1 day before the event).Refunds are available until noon, Monday, November 17, 2008 (2 business days after the event) by sending a request to RSVP@nycupa.org.

Ticket transfers can be made on or before 4 pm Wednesday, November 12, 2008 (1 day before the event) by sending a request to RSVP@nycupa.org . You must notify us, and get a confirmation, of this transfer or it will not be valid.

Members of our parent organization, the UPA (the Usability Professionals’ Association), must join the NYC chapter to qualify for member rates.  We encourage everyone to join our parent organization, though you do not need to do so to become a member of our chapter. You can learn more about our NYC organization or learn about our parent organization.

Seats are limited and reservations are first come, first served. We advise you to register early as previous events have sold out and we had to turn people away.

About the speaker:
Rachel Abrams is Creative Director of Turnstone Consulting, a collaborative design practice in New York City . She designs technology-mediated experiences for commercial spaces and public places. As a 2006-7 Fellow of The Design Trust for Public Space, she co-edited Taxi07: Roads Forward, a report on the future of New York ’s yellow cabs. Previously, at Imagination (USA) and IBM, she was a content and user experience strategist. Her design writing has featured on Adobe.com, in the Design Council, The Economist, Good, Eye magazines, and in other international publications over the last ten years. She has a Master’s degree in Computer Related Design from the Royal College of Art, UK, a BA (Hons) in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University , and has taught at New York University ’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.

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Evening World Usability Day Event (Ann Arbor, MI)

The Michigan UPA is excited to bring you an evening World Usability Day event to supplement that outstanding day-long conference that Michigan State University is planning for that day!

We are very excited about this event, because it is an opportunity for us to reach out to people that are outside the usability field with a message of how user-centered design can provide real value. The theme of this year’s World Usability Day is transportation, and that also has us pretty excited, given that there are at least a few people in Michigan that work for transportation-related companies.

The event will be held in the evening on Thursday, November 13, 2008. It will be hosted in Ann Arbor. The focus of this event is spreading the word about user centered design and usability. The event will consist of a series of short talks (about 10-20 minutes), with each talk presenting a specific story about how user centered design, a focus on the user, or a piece of the usability “toolkit” delivered value to a company.

This event is an opportunity to see how usability can help you and is geared toward people unfamiliar with it or usability professionals who could use some good stories to tell.

Watch the Michigan UPA website for more details as they become available.

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Michigan World Usability Day (East Lansing, MI)

The MSU Usability & Accessibility Center is joining over 180 locations in 41 countries to promote the 4th annual World Usability Day. This is also MSU’s 6th annual Usability and Accessibility event.

Theme: Getting to the Point: Improving Transportation through Better Design

The focus for World Usability Day 2008 is Transportation. Transportation in its broadest sense means moving products and people. Usability in transportation speaks to the interaction of people and vehicles, the challenges and issues of infrastructure and modes for moving around in our environment.

• Cost: $25.00 – lunch included
• Location: MSU Union Building

For registration and program information, visit the Michigan WUD site.

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

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.

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Tags: Canada | conference | Ergonomy | Montreal, QC, Canada | QC | research | transportation | Usability | user experience | WUD
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