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World Usability Day Hamburg

More than 300 attendees came to the World Usability Day 2007 in Hamburg. 19 speakers, 14 speaches and 2 tracks - the facets of usability and user experience were shown in different case studies.

Javier Broch, the user experience lead of the Columbian University, came especially for the event from New York City to Hamburg. He spoke about “Institutionalization of Usability in Decentralized Organisations - A University Case Study”. See the speech on www.video.google.de.

Some photos of the event you will find on www.flickr.com.

The program, slides and some videos are here:
www.worldusabilityday.de/hamburg.

Posted in Hamburg, Germany
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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)

Posted in New York City, NY, USA
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Denver/Boulder World Usability Day 2007

UXnet Local Ambassadors helped coordinate Denver/Boulder events on World Usability Day, November 8, 2007:

• an open house from local design firm Foraker
• a talk by Rocky Mountain HFES by Hal Hendrick
• a talk at Metro State College by Jennifer Perkins

Learn more at www.worldusabilityday.org.

Posted in Denver, CO, USA
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WUD 2007 in Recife, Brazil

Recife had its first World Usability Day event this year. It was a unique opportunity when almost everyone involved with UCD in Recife got together to talk about what local industry and academia are doing and what they are going to do in the next years.

Most of attendees were local leaders, professors, practitioners, students and general audience. We received almost 200 people, though our expectations were 100 attendees. The event was completely free. It started at 5:00pm and lasted until 10:00pm, due only to the advanced hour. All the presentations, interviews and debates (podcasts and videos) are going to be available soon on the event website.

WUD Recife was organized by UXrecife, which is a fruit of UXnet and was proudly supported by it. We have never organized any event, but team work and volunteering can do more than you realize! UXrecife has now more than 80 colaborators and people in Recife are even more passionate about developing a UCD culture in our locale. WUD was a great opportunity to deeply understand our local context and comunicate the value of user experience design to the whole community.

As a local ambassador in a country where UCD is in its first steps, i’d like to encourage all people in similar settings to keep the hard work of evangelizing the bennefits of user experience among companies around you. WUD is a great chance to do that, so get started to think about your 2008 local event!

Posted in Recife, Brazil
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