[Sigia-l] (Event) UX presentation on advanced user interfaces, SIGCHI meeting, Thurs 2/22, Seattle

[Klein Info Design]

User-centered design of advanced user interfaces is the topic of this
month’s Puget Sound SIGCHI meeting. 

Mary Czerwinski of Microsoft Research will discuss “Keeping Users in the
Flow: UI Support for a Multitasking Workforce” on Thursday, Feb. 22, at the
University of Washington.

No registration is required for this free meeting of UX professionals.

Today's information workers are characterized by their ability to easily
handle interruptions, to multitask, switch tasks on a dime and make sense of
enormous amounts of information in high pressure situations. In addition,
current and future technologies, including various wearables and sensing
devices, ensure that robust communications and information transmissions can
occur just about anywhere, at any time for work groups. Finally, our ability
to log, collect and visualize event data becomes ever more sophisticated,
allowing us to analyze trends and identify patterns across many areas of
individual and group behavior.  

How do we use these technological trends to ensure that we are designing
tools that improve productivity, insight, and an overall sense of user
control? In this talk, Mary Czerwinski of Microsoft Research will discuss
her research group's approach to the user-centered design of advanced user
interfaces, and will describe a few of the more recent research projects by
way of example.


Mary Czerwinski is a Principal Researcher and Research Area Manager of the
Human Centered Computing group at Microsoft Research. The group is
responsible for studying and designing advanced communication technologies
and interaction techniques that leverage human capabilities across a wide
variety of input and output channels. More information about Dr. Czerwinski
can be found at http://research.microsoft.com/users/marycz.


6:00 P.M. Networking and refreshments 

7:00 P.M. Presentation


Location:  University of Washington: Johnson Hall, Room 075

Parking is available in the Central Plaza Parking Garage (accessed from 15th
Ave. NE), other campus parking lots, or street parking in the University
District.  Evening parking fees on campus are approximately $5.00.  View the
campus map for the location of Johnson Hall
http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/?JHN .  (Click on the map to zoom.) 


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Puget Sound Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) is
a non-profit, local SIG chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery
serving the Puget Sound region's interface design, usability, and research
communities. 

http://www.pssigchi.org

Kathleen Klein, Secretary 
Puget Sound SIG Computer-Human Interaction

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