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 Putney, VT. July 2006. Landmark College will host the second annual World Usability Day New England on November 14th.
The Usability Professionals' Association is organizing World Usability Day events worldwide with the goal of increasing awareness of the importance of usability and user-centered design. Last year’s event lasted for 36 hours, with 115 events in 35 countries, on 6 continents around the world.
Landmark College and Dartmouth College join together again to organize this conference with the theme, "universal usability to enhance learning, effectiveness, and understanding for people of all abilities." World Usability Day New England will offer two tracks: Universal Usability in Teaching and Learning, and Usability of Products and Systems.
Keynote speakers will be Sarah Horton, Instructional Technologist, Dartmouth College, author of Access by Design: A Guide to Universal Usability for Web Designers, Web Teaching Guide, Web Style Guide, and Takis Metaxas, Associate Professor and Chair of Computer Science and co-Director of the Media Arts and Sciences Program at Wellesley College, whose research interests include Cybertrust, Web Spam and Cognitive Hacking. Invited speaker Dr. John Urquhart will present on issues related to the usability of medical products.
WUDNE2006 will feature a student panel and a ‘UDI lab’ offering expert evaluation of participants’ syllabi, lesson plans, handouts and websites.
For registration and proposal information, please contact Julie Strothman, Project Manager, 802.387.7137 or visit www.landmark.edu/wud.
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