[Neasis-l] FW: Special invitation to World Usability Day @ Simmons: 11/8/12 8:30-11:30am

[J Darcy Duke]

For any NEASIST members who are interested - a free event at Simmons next week!

Darcy Duke
NEASIST Treasurer & Program Committee Member

From: Rong Tang [mailto:rong.tang at simmons.edu]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 4:59 PM
Subject: Special invitation to World Usability Day @ Simmons: 11/8/12 8:30-11:30am

I'd like to extend a special invitation to NEASIST members to attend our World Usability Day event. Please see below announcement for details. If you are available and are interested, please register for the event via the eventbrite link below. Please feel free to forward this message to interested NEASIST members.

Best,
Rong

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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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From: Rong Tang [mailto:rong.tang at simmons.edu]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 1:29 PM
To: 'GSLIS Faculty'
Subject: [gslis_faculty] World Usability Day @ Simmons: 11/8/12 8:30-11:30am

Dear all,

To celebrate World Usability Day 2012, UXPA @ Simmons<http://gslis.simmons.edu/blogs/supa> proudly presents its usability feedback event on November 8, 2012, featuring four local organizations demonstrating their system interface design to obtain on-the-spot usability evaluation and critique from the audience. The event will take place from 8:30am to 11:30am on Thursday, 11/8/12, in the Kotzen Conference Room.

The event is co-sponsored by the GSLIS Techgroup.  The event is  free and open to the Simmons community and the public. Light breakfast will be provided.


Registration is required. To register, please go to: http://wud2012simmons.eventbrite.com/


Below is the agenda:

8:30 - 8:40 Check in
8:40-8:45 Welcome and Introductions
8:45-9:20
NASA ADS Labs (http://adslabs.org), presented by Alberto Accomazzi, Program Manager, NASA Astrophysics Data System
9:20-9:55
BC Libraries Video Clip Retrieval (http://mlib.bc.edu/video-search), presented by Benjamin Florin, Web Developer, Boston College Libraries
9:55-10:05 Break
10:05-10:40
EBSCOHost Application, presented by Kate Lawrence, User Experience Researcher and Megan Hurst, Product Manager, Library User Experience, EBSCO Publishing
10:40-11:15
Tufts University Home Page (www.tufts.edu<http://www.tufts.edu>), presented by Jeremy Wahlman-Krogh, Project Manager, Web Communications, Tufts University.
11:15-11:30 Wrap up


UXPA @ Simmons looks forward to seeing you there!


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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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