NYC-UPA Event: Technologies for User Research

Date: October 17 2006

Location: New York, New York, USA

Website: http://www.nycupa.org

About This Event

Registration: 6:00pm (refreshments served)
Presentation: 6:30pm to 8:00pm (includes Q&A)
Networking: 8:00pm to 8:30pm
Dinner at a nearby restaurant: 8:30pm to whenever (participants pay for their own dinner)
Location: Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, Laura Parsons Pratt Conference Center, 281 Park Avenue South (at 22nd Street).

Usability practitioners are in the enviable position of researching and evaluating new technologies - but are often limited by the tools available for conducting this research. A number of solutions have recently become available to support the process of user research. There are also several emerging technologies that have the potential to change what/how research will be performed in the near future.

The presentation will cover the following topics:
"¢ The goals and limitations of current user research technologies
"¢ Overview of some of the latest user research tools (e.g. remote testing, eye tracking, digital ethnography)
"¢ Criteria for evaluating user research technology
"¢ Discussion of emerging technology trends (e.g. ubiquitous computing, product integration) and their impact on user research capabilities

Attendees to the presentation will gain a better understanding of what user research technology can and cannot do, what tools are currently available to support research, and what may be available in the future.

About the speaker:
Rob Tannen, PhD, is the Director of Human Factors for Electronic Ink, a sixteen-year old firm that applies product design methodology to creating usable software interfaces.

Rob has provided human factors expertise in applications including cockpit displays, emergency dispatch, GPS navigation, equities trading and Web site design.

Rob is also a leader of the Industrial Design Society of America Human Factors Section, which promotes human factors and research methods to designers: http://www.humanfactors.typepad.com/idsa/

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Tags

design, human factors, user research