Save the Date: Thursday Nov 8, 2007
3rd Annual World Usability Day
2nd Annual World Usability Day New England
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. This year’s event lasted for 36 hours, with 206 events in 39 countries, on 6 continents all around the world.
Dartmouth College and Landmark College joined 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 offered two tracks: Universal Usability in Teaching and Learning, and Usability of Products and Systems.
Topics included:
- instructional design
- curriculum development
- web design
- electronic communications
- teaching and training methods
- product usability
Keynote Speakers
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.
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, Professor of Biopharmaceutical Sciences at UCSF, and lead developer of the first transdermal drug ("patch" technology), presented on issues related to the usability of prescription pharmaceuticals.
Program Features
- student panel: Discovering Usability Issues in our Classwork
- roundtable discussion: evaluating for usability and universal design for instruction