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.
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.
- Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008
- Time: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
- Cost: $25.00 – lunch included
- Location: MSU Union Building
Program
Morning Workshops
Onsite registration for morning sessions
8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
Workshop 1
9:00 - 11:00 a.m. | Parlor C
Universal Usability of Dynamic Content: Making Flash, Ajax, and DHTML Usable for Everyone
Speakers: Marguerite Bergel, Senior Accessibility/Usability Analyst, Fidelity Investments, and Ann Chadwick-Dias, Principal Accessibility/Usability Analyst, Fidelity Investments
Workshop 2
9:00 - 11:00 a.m. | Parlor B
Usability 101: Practical User Experience Evaluation
Speakers: Josie Scott, User Experience Researcher, TechSmith Corporation, Barbara Hernandez, User Experience Manager, TechSmith Corporation, and Casey Wright, User Experience Researcher, TechSmith Corporation
Afternoon registration
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Lunch
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Second floor Concourse
Afternoon Sessions
12:00 - 5:00 p.m. | All afternoon sessions will be in Parlors A, B, & C
Opening Remarks
12:00 - 12:15 p.m.
Sarah Swierenga, Director, Usability & Accessibility Center, Michigan State University
Session 1
IT & Usability: Moving Michigan Forward
12:15 - 12:45 p.m.
Speaker: Ken Theis, Director, Michigan Department of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, State of Michigan
Session 2
Is Third Wave Accessibility a Panacea? The Next Black Swan?
1:00 - 1:45 p.m.
Speaker: Michael Paciello,
Founder and Principal, The Paciello Group (TPG)
Session 3
Quantifying and Qualifying the Human/Package Interface
1:45 - 2:30 p.m.
Speakers: Laura Bix, Assistant Professor, Packaging, Michigan State University, and Tamara Reid Bush, Director, Biomechanical Design Research Laboratory, Michigan State University
Break and Poster Session
2:30 - 3:15 p.m. | Second floor Concourse
Session 4
User-Centered Design in Practice: A Look at the Capital Area Transportation Authority Web Site Redesign
3:15 - 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Chris Bachelder, E-Business Consultant, Artemis Solutions Group
Session 5
4:00 - 4:45 p.m.
Containing RFID, Expanding Usability
Speakers: John Monberg, Assistant Professor, Writing, Rhetoric & American Culture, Michigan State University
Poster Award Ceremony
4:45 - 5:00 p.m.
Constantinos Coursaris, Work-in-progress Committee Chair
Networking Reception
5:00 - 6:00 p.m. | Lake Superior Room
Who Will Benefit?
- Industry professionals
- Academics
- Government officials
- Students
Event Sponsors
Bronze (MSU)