UPA Boston: Usability & User Experience 2008: Schedule

* Mini-Conference *

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Registration

Schedule

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Presenter Abstracts & Bios

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Date and Time

Wed., May 28th, 2008

On-site registration begins: 8am

Conference: 9am-6pm

Cocktails and networking: 6pm-7pm

Location

Bentley College

The Bentley Conference Center
LaCava Building, Third Floor

175 Forest Street
Waltham, MA 02452

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Usability and User Experience 2008

Conference Schedule

The following presentations have been accepted and are scheduled for the Mini UPA conference. If you are a presenter and cannot present, contact Jen Hocko immediately. We cannot guarantee to meet all scheduling needs.

Abstracts and bios are available by clicking on the presentation title.

Time	Executive Dining Room	Danielson Room	Room 325ABC	Room 305AB
8:00-9:00	Registration and Breakfast
9:00-9:15	Welcome (Executive Dining Room)
9:15-10:00	Web Apps: The Collision of Design and Business Jared Spool	8 Simple Rules (for Designing / Developing a Really Great Product That Your Customers Will Love & Want to Actually Use) Kenny Kutney	Beyond Card Sorting: Research methods for Organizing Content Rich Web Sites Run Amok Michael Hawley	Multivariate Testing for Optimal Website Usability Eric Hansen
10:15-11:00	Moderating Usability Tests: 10 Golden Rules Beth Loring & Joe Dumas	Visualization Techniques & Tools Michael Ledoux	The User Interaction Cycle Ben Dubrovsky	Peer Coaching: a Simple & Effective Way for User Experience Teams to Help Each Other Amy Kidd
11:15-12:00	Next Generation Interaction Paradigms: Useful or Novelty? Amy Cueva	Getting Close to Our Users...a Multi-Method Study Bryn Dews	The Convergence of Usability & Web Analytics Dan Berlin & Bob Thomas	Why Usability Should Never Come First & the Importance of Front-End Design David Rondeau & Traci Lepore
12:00-1:00	Lunch (Executive Dining Room)
1:00-1:45	Remote User Testing: Global Testing Without Moderator Bias Ania Rodriguez	Winning the Case for Usability Tonya Price	Online Consumer Health Lisa Neal	How IBM Maximized User Input in the Design of Lotus Notes 8 Elizabeth Comstock
2:00-2:45	Tips & Tricks for Measuring the User Experience Bill Albert & Tom Tullis	Persona Development & Validation--What Do You Need to Know? Jen McGinn	Innovative Interfaces--Transforming Data Into Insight Eva Kaniasty	Widening Usability's Reach: Extending Usability Methods to Marketing & Design Ashley Annis
3:00-3:45	Critical Conversations About UCD: Challenging Assumptions, Fondly Held Beliefs, & Common Practices Chauncey Wilson, Tom Spine, & James McElroy	Starting Up a Usability Program Deb Biggar	Metaverses & User Experience Stephen Denning	Physical & Online Card Sorts: A Practical Overview & Case Study Bob Thomas & Kateyln Thompson
4:00-4:45	Establishing & Evolving a UX Team in Your Company Mary Weinstein	So You're Thinking About Consulting? Think About This... Lynn Cherny	Moving Up the Usability Food Chain: A Cross-Disciplinary Holistic Viewpoint Alex Conn	Combining Personas with On-site Surveys & Web Analytics to Drive Business Strategy & Design Tim Harter
5:00-5:45	Prototyping A to V: Comparing Tools & Methods (Panel) Kirsten Robinson, Rich Beauregard, & Paul Turner	Design Happens or Why Lipstick Doesn't Belong on Pigs Deborah Falck	Going Beyond Your Mandate: A Case for Building Business Cases Amy Cueva	Streamlined Product Evaluation Catherine Weeks
6:00-7:00	Cocktail Hour (Executive Dining Room)

Questions about attendance, sponsorship or the event? Email Chris Hass.