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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20061017
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20061018
SUMMARY:NYC-UPA Event: Technologies for User Research
LOCATION:New York, New York, USA
DESCRIPTION:Registration: 6:00pm (refreshments served) 
\nPresentation: 6:3
 0pm to 8:00pm (includes Q&A) 
\nNetworking: 8:00pm to 8:30pm 
\nDinner at a
  nearby restaurant: 8:30pm to whenever (participants pay for their own dinn
 er) 
\nLocation: Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, Laura Parsons P
 ratt Conference Center, 281 Park Avenue South (at 22nd Street). 
\n
\nUsabi
 lity practitioners are in the enviable position of researching and evaluati
 ng new technologies - but are often limited by the tools available for cond
 ucting this research. A number of solutions have recently become available 
 to support the process of user research. There are also several emerging te
 chnologies that have the potential to change what/how research will be perf
 ormed in the near future. 
\n
\nThe presentation will cover the following t
 opics: 
\n• The goals and limitations of current user research technologi
 es 
\n• Overview of some of the latest user research tools (e.g. remote t
 esting, eye tracking, digital ethnography) 
\n• Criteria for evaluating u
 ser research technology 
\n• Discussion of emerging technology trends (e.
 g. ubiquitous computing, product integration) and their impact on user rese
 arch capabilities 
\n
\nAttendees to the presentation will gain a better un
 derstanding of what user research technology can and cannot do, what tools 
 are currently available to support research, and what may be available in t
 he future. 
\n
\nAbout the speaker: 
\nRob Tannen, PhD, is the Director of 
 Human Factors for Electronic Ink, a sixteen-year old firm that applies prod
 uct design methodology to creating usable software interfaces. 
\n
\nRob ha
 s provided human factors expertise in applications including cockpit displa
 ys, emergency dispatch, GPS navigation, equities trading and Web site desig
 n. 
\n
\nRob is also a leader of the Industrial Design Society of America H
 uman Factors Section, which promotes human factors and research methods to 
 designers: http://www.humanfactors.typepad.com/idsa/ 
\n
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20061113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20061117
SUMMARY:European Market Research Event
LOCATION:London, United Kingdom
DESCRIPTION:The first European Market Research Event will take place in Lon
 don from 13 to 16 November this year.
\n
\nThe European Market Research Eve
 nt positions itself as the "only practitioner led event focused on the busi
 ness value of market research and consumer insights". It is designed to joi
 n market researchers, directors of insights and marketers, to discuss the b
 usiness value of market research.
\n
\nSpeaker come from such companies as 
 Barclays Bank, CNBC Europe, EMI Music, Eastman Kodak, IBM, Intel, LEGO, Luf
 thansa, Microsoft, Nokia, Pepsico, Price Waterhouse Cooper, Procter and Gam
 ble, Orange, Steelcase, Swisscom Innovations, Unilever and Vodafone. Anne K
 irah, Microsoft's senior design anthropologist, is the event's co-chair.
\n
 
\nThe event, which coincides with the UPA's 2006 World Usability Day, is o
 rganised in various thematic "special interest groups". Themes are Ethnogra
 phy, Segmentation, Online Research, Global Research, Media, and Usability.
 \n
\nThe main conference days (Monday to Wednesday) feature keynote session
 s from leading practitioners from Procter & Gamble, Unilever, and authors i
 ncluding James Surowiecki, "Wisdom of Crowds", and Peter Fisk, "Marketing I
 ntelligence". Academics from the London Business School, Northwestern Unive
 rsity and other institutions also contribute keynote speeches. The afternoo
 ns of the main conference days are devoted to in-depth case-studies on Tren
 ds, Product Development, Shopper Insights, Return on Investment, Social Res
 earch, Branding, Business to Business, and Best Practices in Applying Marke
 t Research.
\n
\nIn the months leading up to the event, the blog Putting Pe
 ople First (www.experientia.com/blog) will post several interviews with the
  organisers and some of the key speakers. During the event the blog will pr
 ovide live reporting, including some short interviews with key participants
 .
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20061113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20061114
SUMMARY:Eyetracking Web Usability
LOCATION:Copenhagen, Denmark
DESCRIPTION:Jakob Nielsen and Kara Pernice Coyne from Nielsen Norman Group 
 come to Denmark to present their newest research findings. 
\n
\n255 users 
 used a variety of websites to perform real tasks while their gaze direction
  was recorded by an eyetracker. The resulting 1.2 million fixations indicat
 e where people look on Web pages.
\n
\nThe findings have implications for h
 ow to design:
\n
\n* homepage layout
\n
\n* page design
\n
\n* search
\n
\n
 * content and writing
\n
\n* pictures/images
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070517
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070518
SUMMARY:PhillyCHI May Meeting - Collaging
LOCATION:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
DESCRIPTION:Collaging: What Your Users Wish They Could Tell You
\nDate: Thu
 rsday, May 17, 2007
\nTime: 6 - 8 pm
\n* Wine & cheese from 6 - 6:30 pm *
\
 nLocation: Avenue A | Razorfish Philadelphia
\n417 North Eighth Street, 2nd
  Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19123
\nPhone: 267-295-7100
\nMap: http://tinyurl.
 com/yptdrt
\nRSVP: phillyCHI@gmail.com - Please RSVP by Monday, May 14th
\n
 
\nAvenue A | Razorfish will present an overview of the User Research metho
 d of Collaging
\n
\nCollaging is an exercise where users select randomly ch
 osen images that represent the type of experience they seek. Users then hav
 e a conversation with the moderator about the reasons behind their choices.
  The data generated from this exercise provides insight into the context us
 ers bring to a specific interaction, enabling design teams to create valuab
 le user experiences.
\n
\nThis presentation will explain the development of
  the method of Collaging, how to perform it, when it is useful, when it is 
 not, and how to apply findings. In addition, examples from case studies wil
 l be discussed, and a live Collaging exercise will be performed with partic
 ipants from the audience to generate data used for the new PhillyCHI websit
 e.
\n
\nAbout Our Sponsor:
\nAvenue A | Razorfish is one of the largest int
 eractive marketing and technology services agencies in the world. An operat
 ing unit of Seattle-based aQuantive, Inc. (NASDAQ: AQNT), Avenue A | Razorf
 ish synthesizes technology with a great understanding of customer needs and
  provides solutions through distinct business disciplines, which include: a
 nalytics, strategy, technology, media, creative design and user experience.
 
\n
\nAs one of the largest interactive agencies in the U.S., Avenue A | Ra
 zorfish offers clients unmatched advertising and Web site development servi
 ces and unparalleled solutions for managing the complete customer lifecycle
  through an integrated, online channel.
\n
\nTo learn more about Avenue A |
  Razorfish, please visit:
\nhttp://avenuea-razorfish.com/index.htm
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20071105
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20071108
SUMMARY:DUX07
LOCATION:Chicago, Illinois, USA
DESCRIPTION:The conference will address User Experience Design and our shif
 ting role as creator, contributor, observer and collaborator. 
\n
\nThese i
 deas will be brought to life at the conference as:
\n* guest speakers push 
 our understanding of "experience" in the context of current design framewor
 ks 
\n* tutorials extend our skill sets beyond the confines of the monitor,
  and 
\n* presentations of carefully selected papers bring together the wor
 lds of industry & academia to form new narratives
\n
\nConference Program
\
 nhttp://dux2007.com/attend/program.php
\n
\nTutorials
\nhttp://dux2007.com/
 attend/tutorials.php
\n
\nInvited Speakers
\nhttp://dux2007.com/attend/spea
 kers.php?list
\n
\n
\nSponsoring Societies:
\nAIGA + ACM SIGCHI & SIGGRAPH
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080301
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080302
SUMMARY:Involution Master Academy: Design Research Methods
LOCATION:Sunnyvale, California, USA
DESCRIPTION:Instructor Steve Portigal
\nSteve is the founder of Portigal Co
 nsulting, a boutique agency that helps clients discover and act on new insi
 ghts about themselves and their customers. He has conducted hundreds of eth
 nographic interviews in homes, public spaces, and work places, interviewing
  families, hotel maintenance staff, architects, rock musicians, home automa
 tion enthusiasts, and radiologists. 
\nThis course will provide first-hand 
 knowledge and training in core design research methods. At its root, design
  research emphasizes learning about people and using the insights gained to
  inform and inspire design. We will focus on exemplary models of what resea
 rch is, what it looks like, its role in concept generation, and what it pro
 duces.
\n
\nStudents will develop their own design research philosophy, lea
 rn how to think about people, behavior, and culture, as well as the importa
 nce of being open to new perspectives. They will also learn tactical skills
  they can immediately put into practice: how to conduct observations and in
 terviews, find research participants, and interpret and synthesize results 
 as fodder for design and storytelling.
\n
\nAs with all Involution Master A
 cademy courses, this class is limited to nine students. This guarantees eac
 h student significant interaction with Steve and a unique opportunity to ro
 ll up your sleeves and put these ideas into practice with the recognized in
 dustry expert on this topic and your eight classmates. It also means that t
 here are very few seats available, so sign up today!
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080515
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080517
SUMMARY:Web Directions User Experience
LOCATION:Melbourne, Australia
DESCRIPTION:Web Directions User Experience is a full day two track conferen
 ce, plus an optional extra day of workshops, focussing on concepts, technol
 ogies and techniques for building great user experiences on the web.
\n
\n
 \n* Andy Budd (Clearleft) - Interaction design and usability
\n* Robert Hoe
 kman Jr (Miskeeto) - User experience evangelist
\n* Lisa Herrod - User test
 ing
\n* Emily Boyd (Remember the Milk) - Ajax techniques for great user exp
 eriences
\n* Cameron Adams - Frontiers of Javascript (workshop)
\n* Donna M
 aurer - Getting content right
\n* Jackie Moyes (News Digital Media) - Turni
 ng research into products
\n* Oliver Weidlich - Mobile web user experience
 \n* Steve Baty - Analysing research data
\n* Mathew Patterson (Campaign Mon
 itor) - Designing for email
\n
\nWhatever your role - designer, developer, 
 IA, product and project manager all the way to CIO and CTO - this will be a
 n exciting day of informative, stimulating content to send you home even be
 tter enabled to build the web.
\n
\nConference: $495 (early bird until Apri
 l 11)
\nWorkshops: $450
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080521
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080522
SUMMARY:NH UPA May Meeting: Sneak Peak @ Morae 3 & UserVue
LOCATION:Bedford, New Hampshire, USA
DESCRIPTION:When you think of TechSmith Morae, you probably think of testin
 g things on a computer screen—like a software application or Web site. But 
 what about testing the iPhone user's experience? Could Morae speed up and s
 implify a whole range of testing methods, from paper prototyping to in-dept
 h interviews to focus groups? Could it enable unmoderated testing? The Mora
 e development team is hard at work to support all these methods and approac
 hes! In this session, we'll pull back the curtain to give you a peek at wha
 t's coming...and demonstrate specific use scenarios. We hope you can join u
 s!
\n
\nShane Lovellette, the creator of Morae and UserVue, will be here fr
 om TechSmith to give us a demo and explain the benefits of using the new ve
 rsion of Morae and UserVue for conducting, recording, observing, analyzing,
  and presenting the results of in-person and remote user research tests.
\n
 
\nSummary:
\nThe demo will cover how to: collect local and remote test ses
 sion data, observe test sessions in local and remote environments, and anal
 yze test sessions with the advanced analytical capabilities of the new v. 3
 .0 of Morae Manager (not out yet!) and UserVue. We will learn about automat
 ed and aggregated usability metric analysis, graphing and reporting, as wel
 l as creating video highlight presentations.
\n
\nFor those of you who alre
 ady use Morae and UserVue, Shane will answer any questions you have about t
 he products and give us all a demo of the new version of Morae 3. 
\n
\nAbo
 ut Shane Lovellette:
\nShane Lovellette is the product manager for Morae an
 d UserVue. Shane came to TechSmith with over eight years of management and 
 production experience in video and television.
\n
\nRSVP:
\nPlease send RSV
 Ps to info@nhupa.org so we have an idea of the head count for the venue and
  refreshments.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081107
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081108
SUMMARY:User Research Friday
LOCATION:San Francisco, California, USA
DESCRIPTION:A half-day conference with five distinguished members of the Ba
 y Area’s UX community discuss advanced topics in UX and user research. Talk
 s include:
\n
\n"How to Lie with Design Research"
\nDan Saffer - Author, “D
 esigning for Interaction"
\n
\n"Research and Design: Ships in the Night?"
\
 nSteve Portigal - Portigal Consulting
\n
\n"How Mental Models Helped Teams 
 Do What They Dreamed"
\nIndi Young - Author, “Mental Models: Aligning User 
 Strategy with Business”
\n
\n"The Autodesk Web Research Truth"
\nMaya Pache
 co - Senior Product Manager, Autodesk
\n
\n"Ten Years of Wasted Research"
\
 nNate Bolt, El Presidente, Bolt | Peters
\n
\nAlso, you'll hear each speake
 r answer this question with a straight face: "Is research for scared, safe 
 people?" 
\n
\nStay afterwards for a drink-and-schmooze with a crowd of UX 
 luminaries, professionals, and amateurs alike! Space is limited, so learn m
 ore and register at userresearchfriday.com today! 
\n
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