Save the Date: Thursday Nov 13, 2008
4th Annual World Usability Day
4th Annual World Usability Day New England
Dartmouth College and Landmark College join together again to host this conference featuring presentations, workshops, and demonstrations focusing on how universal usability can enhance teaching, training, learning, and understanding across people of all abilities.
The Usability Professionals' Association organized World Usability Day events worldwide with the goal of increasing awareness of the importance of usability and user-centered design. Last year’s saw participation of more than 40,000 people in 175 cities in 35 countries around the world.
Keynote Speaker: Peter Morville
Peter Morville is a passionate advocate for the critical roles that search and findabilitiy play in defining the user experience. Peter's latest book, Ambient Findability, explores search, wayfinding, marketing, information interaction, literacy, librarianship, authority, and culture at the crossroads of ubiquitous computing and the Internet.
Peter blogs at findability.org.
Topics of the Day
- Information literacy
- Universal design & usability
- Web design & accessibility
- Curriculum development
Program Features
- Student Panel: Discovering Usability Issues in our Classwork
- Roundtable Discussion: Evaluating for Usability and Universal Design for Instruction