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UPA icon  Notes From Past Meetings

When available, monthly meeting notes are posted on this site; however, the presentations themselves are posted on our Intranet to ensure availability to members only. (Go to Documents > Monthly Meeting Notes and Presentations)

2008 Meetings

January 16, 2008
Topic: "Yes, Virginia, there is a perfect Web page"
Speaker: Steve Krug, Advanced Common Sense
Location: Olin College, Needham MA
Resources:

February 21, 2008
Topic: "Short Talks About Design and Usability"
Speaker: Chauncey Wilson and The Autodesk® Revit® Product Design Team
Location: Autodesk, Waltham MA
Resources:

March 19, 2008
Topic: "Mobile Usability & Teens: Going Mobile and Agile"
Speakers: Hilary Coolidge, Molecular
Location: The MathWorks, Natick MA
Resources:

April 23, 2008
Topic: "Usability Test Facilitation: Lessons from the Trenches"
Speaker: Carolyn Snyder
Location: Oracle, Burlington MA

Resources:

May 2008
No monthly meeting - Usability and User Experience 2008 on May 28th!

June 12, 2008
Topic: "Touch me, Tag me, Brand me...MITRE presents:

  • Controlling Robots Through Multi-touch Technology
  • Social Bookmarking in the Enterprise
  • Want a Lime With That? Design in Open Source"
Speakers: Dr. Jill Drury, Laurie Damianos, Juhan Sonin
Location: MITRE, Bedford MA

July 15, 2008
Topic: "Getting the Tool Right … Or Getting the Right Tool? Tool Choice and Tool Switching in Complex Software"
Speaker: Will Schroeder, The MathWorks
Location: Iron Mountain Digital, Southborough MA

October 2008
Topic: 10 Minute Talks
Speakers: Chancey Wilson, Staples
Location: Staples, Framingham, MA

November 2008
No monthly meeting. Instead, join us at World Usability Day 2008

December 2008
No monthly meeting - Happy Holidays!
Join us for a pan-UX New Year's party in January!

 

2007 Meetings

October 16, MIT
Topic: "10 Minute Talks"
Speakers: Pauric O’Callaghan, Meng Yang, Michael Dutton, Cay Lodine, Todd Follansbee, Donna Cooper / Rachel Cobleigh
Presentation: Boston UPA 10 Minute Talks (PDF)

September 26, Staples
Topic: "Client Side Story: Making Ajax, RIAs, and Browser-side Intelligence Usable"
Speaker: Jared Spool
Presentation: Client Side Story (PDF)

August 16, Fidelity Investments
Topic: "Lessons Learned From Eye-tracking"
Speaker: Tom Tullis and the User Experience Team at Fidelity
Presentation: N/A

July 12, Oracle Corporation
Topic: "Ethnographic Research Techniques: So, How Do You Do That?"
Speaker: Kazuyo Masuda
Presentation: Available on Intranet

June 20, Iron Mountain Digital
Topic: "Workflow Rehearsals: Using Interactive Walkthroughs to Uncover Process Gaps"
Speakers: Ali Mischke and Chris Thurrott
Presentation: Available on Intranet

March 28, iRobot
Topic: "Interface design challenges at iRobot, including discussions about the Roomba and PackBot Explorer and EOD, military hardened robots"
Speakers:
Aaron Powers and Mike Robbins

February 28, The Mathworks
Topic: "Using Quantitative/Qualitative Customer Research to Improve Web Site Effectiveness"
Speaker:
Carol Farnsworth of Keynote Systems
Presentation: Available on Intranet

January 20, Vinny Testas
World Usability Day Celebration


2006 Meetings

October 19, MIT
Topic: "User Interface Design for Software Developers - Why Developers Get it Wrong and How to Help Get it Right"
Speaker:
Gregory Raiz
Presentation: Available on Intranet

September 21, Staples, Inc.
10-Minute Talks
Presentations: Available on Intranet

August 23, Molecular
Topic: "We are Not Alone"
Speaker: Jared Spool of User Interface Engineering
Presentation: Available on Intranet

July 19, Museum of Science
Speaker: Christine Reich

June 27, Fidelity Investments
Speakers: Laura Richterich, Pedro Branco, Donna Tedesco, Michelle McNulty, Ellen Mangan, Ann Chadwick-Dias, Marguerite Bergel, and Tom Tullis.

May 18th, MITRE
Topics:"Multi-Modal Interfaces" and "Pen-Based interfaces in the field"
Speakers: Courtney E. Aquilina, Nikhil Kalghatgi, Katie Minardo, and Janet Perron

April 11, Monster
Speakers:The Monster Usability Team: Kristina, Mary Kate, Paul and Cay