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Please join the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) in Winter Quarter for a 10-week seminar on current topics in the HCDE field by industry experts. Each 40-minute talk will be followed by a Q&A session. Members of the UW community and the public are welcome. More information about the series is available online at hcde.uw.edu/521.
Title: Creating Great First Impressions: Designing Out of Box and First Time User Experiences to Delight Your Customers
Date: January 27, 2012
Speaker: Cathy Moya
When: Fridays, 12:30-1:20 PM
Where: Loew Hall, Room 206, UW Seattle campus
Your product never gets a second chance to make a first impression with users. Designing a great first encounter helps get the relationship off to a good start and helps reduce the chance that users will shelve – or return – the product.
This session will present case studies drawn from painful experience with users and user research regarding out of box experience (OOBE) and first time user experience (FTUE). We’ll examine what we can learn from unboxing physical products, but also draw parallels to software and online services.
You will learn:
When: Wednesday, January 25th at 6PM
Where: Substantial HQ
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In this contest, students will be offered a trial version of Altia Design (the centerpiece of our award-winning user interface toolkit)to design, develop and submit a creative and cool automotive user interface. We have assembled a panel of judges who are experts in the field of usability, user interface design, human factors, and user experience to determine our winner. The student who delivers the winning user interface earns a $2000 scholarship, plus a paid summer internship with Altia.To participate, students will: Continue reading ‘Altia Design Contest & Scholarship’
I’m on a team/or thinking about it…tell me about the competition.Thurs, Jan 19, 5-5:45 Bank of America Executive Education Building , Rm 310 (precedes Resource Nights)“Intent to Submit” – preliminary team information due February 10If you believe in the need to create ‘solutions for the planet’, then put your passion to work. The cleantech sector is exploding – make connections and get started NOW. And, if you’re thinking about entering the Business Plan Competition with your cleantech idea, consider this a great way to get ahead of the pack. Continue reading ‘UW Environmental Innovation Challenge – Info Session’
Please join the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) in Winter Quarter for a 10-week seminar on current topics in the HCDE field by industry experts. Each 40-minute talk will be followed by a Q&A session. Members of the UW community and the public are welcome. More information about the series is available online at hcde.uw.edu/521.
Title: Hasslemaps, Theory of Constraints, and User Research
Date: January 13, 2012
Speaker: Skip Walter
When: Fridays, 12:30-1:20 PM
Where: Loew Hall, Room 206, UW Seattle campus
One of the most important and early parts of user research is to understand the workflows or value flows of the user being studied. For thirty years, Eli Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints in conjunction with workflow mapping have guided research for workers in the enterprise. Until recently, a corresponding process and theory did not exist for consumers. With the publication of Adrian Slywotzky’s book Demand: Creating What People Love Before They Know They Want It, there is now an excellent framework (hasslemaps) for placing the value flow of a consumer in context. With this context, valued solutions are easier to discover. This talk will compare and contrast Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints with Slywotzky’s Hasslemaps and point to when and where to use the respective techniques. During the talk we will discuss examples from Slywotsky’s book, from the use of this technique with HCDE class projects, and the use of these techniques with commercial tools like dScout in the context of loyalty marketing. Continue reading ’521 Seminar: Hasslemaps, Theory of Constraints, and User Research (1/13)’
An HCDE alum is helping put on World IA Day in Vancouver, B.C. and is looking for folks interested in speaking at their event. It will be on Saturday, February 11th at the Media Cafe at W2. The overall theme is Designing Structures for Understanding. The website is at http://worldiaday.org/locations/vancouver-canada and registration at http://worldiadayvancouver.eventbrite.ca/.
Speaker: Hrvoje Benko (MSR)
Wednesday, January 4
12:00-1:20pm
ART 236 (map)
Title:
High-Fidelity Augmented Reality Interactions Without Goggles, Gloves or 3D Trackers
Abstract:
For years, researchers have attempted to make virtual experiences more immersive and more realistic; however, while the improvements in graphics and rendering made Continue reading ‘High-Fidelity Augmented Reality Interactions Without Goggles, Gloves or 3D Trackers’
Please join the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) in Winter Quarter for a 10-week seminar on current topics in the HCDE field by industry experts. Each 40-minute talk will be followed by a Q&A session. Members of the UW community and the public are welcome. More information about the series is available online at hcde.uw.edu/521.
Title: Traceability Systems for Coffee Farmers: A Key to Sustainability and Food Security
Date: January 6, 2012
Speaker: Stephen Vick
When: Fridays, 12:30-1:20 PM
Where: Loew Hall, Room 206, UW Seattle campus
Stephen Vick will be discussing data tracking systems at the coffee farm level and how they are critical to sustainability, traceability, transparency, and food security. Because coffee is grown exclusively in developing countries, a number of technological and cultural considerations must be made when designing and implementing these systems. He will discuss the progress and pitfalls of current systems and why HCDE professionals could play an important role in taking these systems to the next level, improving farmer livelihoods in the long run.
Continue reading ’521 Seminar: Traceability Systems for Coffee Farmers: A Key to Sustainability and Food Security (1/6)’
Access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) in Ghana ranges from no access in many rural areas to access comparable to some major US cities. What strategies do people with low incomes use to connect to others and get the information they need? How does this impact their lives? We can get answers to these questions through research and direct experience. Whether you are interested in the uses and impacts of ICTs on the lives of people in developing countries or more generally in learning about how to do field research, this seminar is an opportunity to explore researched-based learning through immersion in the people and culture of Ghana. Continue reading ‘Ghana Exploration Seminar’