UPA Boston: Usability & User Experience 2007

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Usability and User Experience 2007

Conference Schedule

The following presentations have been accepted and are scheduled for the Mini UPA conference. If you are a presenter and cannot present, contact Jen Hocko immediately. We cannot guarantee to meet all scheduling needs.

Abstracts and bios are available by clicking on the presentation title.

Time	Executive Dining Room	Danielson Room	Room 325ABC	Room 305AB
8:00-9:00	Registration and Breakfast
9:00-9:15	Welcome (Executive Dining Room)
9:15-10:00	The Brave New World: Usability Challenges of Web 2.0 Jared Spool	Random Access Walkthroughs Kirsten Robinson	Usability Research in an Agile Development Environment Ann-Marie McCarthy	Post-its and Affinities: low-tech tools for high-impact results (workshop) Mary Beth Rettger
10:15-11:00	How personal finance shoppers use the web to support decision-making: a new study from the UK Tom Wood	Design for Online Communities Lynn Cherny	“Implementing intranet standards without CMS… or a budget” Stan Drozdetski and Sarah Rambacher
11:15-12:00	Techniques for Understanding the User Experience: Usability is not Enough! Demetrios Karis	User Evaluation Methodology for Tactility and Dexterity of Military Aviation Protective Gloves Karla Eve Allan	If You Build It They Will Come - So You Better Be Ready: A Case Study of Building a User Experience Team Catherine Courage
12:00-1:00 Lunch	SuperUser Exhibit Created for World Usability Day (Executive Dining Room) Mary Weinstein
1:00-1:45	Web 2.0: Developments in User Experience, Brand Strategy, and Rich Internet Applications Beth Loring and Gessica Silverman	Prototyping Tools: Does Fidelity Really Matter? Michael Ledoux and Adam Hoffman	Investigating The Usability of Sets of Software Tools Will Schroeder	What to Do with the Data? Data Exploration, Analysis, and Presentation of Quantitative and Qualitative Usability and Design Data (workshop) Chauncey Wilson
2:00-2:45	Highlights of Persuasive Technology 2007 Carolyn Snyder	Creating the Climate for Innovation Amy Cueva	Experience Design—what can we learn from games design? Sarah Bloomer
3:00-3:45	WireTags: Tangible Subjective Feedback Rachael Acker and Jaqueline Stetson	What Makes User Interfaces Intuitive and Innovative? Jen Hocko and JenMcGinn	Multiple Evaluations, Varied Findings: Good News or Bad News? Cay Lodine	Usability: The Elevator Pitch Debbie Cook,Eva Kaniasty, Andrew Wirtanen
4:00-4:45	Pedal to the Metal: e-Marketing, Blogs, and the Ford Autoshow Jason Levin	From User Stories to User Requirements Elizabeth Rosenzweig	Coming to terms: Comparing and Combining the Results of Multiple Evaluators Performing Heuristic Evaluation Jen McGinn	Starting a Usability Group at Your Company: Panel Discussion with Audience Roundtable (panel) Bryn Dews
5:00-5:45	UX Research beyond software design: a comparison of customer centered research techniques (panel) Sarah Bloomer	A More Complete Model on Sample Size Issues in Usability Testing Minmin Yang	“It does Take Two to Tango:” the design management AND product design of project Tango Greg Almquist and Chris Whelan
6:00-7:00	Cocktail Hour (Executive Dining Room)

Questions about attendance, sponsorship or the event? Email Chris Hass.