[Asis-l] World Usability Day at Simmons

[Rong Tang]

Dear all,

November 12, 2009 is the World Usability Day. Simmons GSLIS (Graduate School
of Library and Information Science) Usability Lab
(http://gslis.simmons.edu/usability/), in partnering with the Student
Chapters of American Society of Information Science and Technology
(http://gslis.simmons.edu/blogs/asist/) and Special Library Association
(http://gslis.simmons.edu/wikis/sla/Main_Page), will host an event in the
morning of November 12th at Linda Paresky Conference Center (3rd floor of
Main College Building), Simmons College. The event is open to the public,
and the registration is free. 

Below are the details of the event:

9:00-9:15 Welcome 
9:15-10:00 Keynote: The Top Ten Myths About Usability. Tom Tullis, Vice
President of Usability at Fidelity Investments
10:00-11:00 Usability Lab as a Collaborative Platform for Applied Research,
Experiential Learning, and Community Services. Rong Tang (Director, Simmons
GSLIS Usability Lab) and Linnea Johnson (Manager, Simmons GSLIS Usability
Lab)
11:00-12:00 Poster session and tours of Simmons GSLIS Usability Lab


The keynote speaker Thomas S. (Tom) Tullis is Vice President of Usability at
Fidelity Investments and Adjunct Professor at Bentley University in the
Human Factors in Information Design program. He joined Fidelity in 1993 and
was instrumental in the development of the company's usability department.
Its facilities include a state-of-the-art Usability Lab. Prior to joining
Fidelity, he held positions at Canon Information Systems, McDonnell Douglas,
Unisys Corporation, and Bell Laboratories. He and Fidelity's usability team
have been featured in a number of publications, including Newsweek, Business
2.0, Money, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York
Times. Tullis received a B.A. from Rice University, an M.A. in experimental
psychology from New Mexico State University, and a Ph.D. in engineering
psychology from Rice University. During his 30 years of experience in
human-computer interface studies, he has published more than 50 papers in
numerous technical journals and has been an invited speaker at national and
international conferences. He also holds eight U.S. patents. He is co-author
(with Bill Albert) of the book "Measuring the User Experience: Collecting,
Analyzing, and Presenting Usability Metrics" (Morgan Kaufman, March 2008)
and co-author (with Bill Albert and Donna Tedesco) of the forthcoming book,
"Beyond the Usability Lab: Conducting Large-Scale User Experience
Studies"(Morgan Kaufman, Jan. 2010).


The poster session will feature following GSLIS student usability projects:

.	Borden, Daniel. Usability Testing: The Boston Redevelopment
Authority Zoning Webpage
.	Chu, Ellen. Child's Usability Test: A Comparison Between the ICDL
and Brooklyn Public Library Search Interfaces
.	Gulyamov, Otabek. UCLA Library Web Usability
.	Lee, Kyoung sun. Running a Usability Test: Searching in SIRIS
.	McMahon, Mark. Usability Testing: Faceted Browsing
.	Rodzvilla, John. Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For: Testing
the Usability of Online Research Guides in Academic Libraries


Registration is required to attend the event. The deadline for registration
is: November 9, 2009.

To register, please click on the following link:

http://gsliswud.eventbrite.com/


For directions and maps of Simmons College, please click on the following
link:

http://www.simmons.edu/overview/directions/



We hope to see you there!
Rong Tang and Linnea Johnson

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Rong Tang, PhD
Associate Professor
Director, GSLIS Usability Lab
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Simmons College
300 The Fenway
Boston, MA 02115
(T) 617-521-2880
(F) 617-521-3192
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