54th Annual Meeting of the
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
September 27-October 1, 2010

"Usability and HCI Day" Featured at the
2010 Annual Meeting

The HFES Computer Systems Technical Group has partnered with the Internet Technical Group and the 2010 Host Committee to bring you a full day of events devoted to usability and human-computer interaction. Below is the lineup for "Usability and HCI Day" on Wednesday, September 29.

BayCHI members: HFES welcomes you to the 2010 Annual Meeting. You're entitled to a 10% discount on the nonmember registration fees.
If you are registering for Wednesday only, enter the discount code BC-DR when you register. To get the discount for attending the full week, use the code BC-FR. (Discounts do not apply to the rates for HFES members or students.) To view the registration fees and other details about the meeting, go to the meeting registration page.

• Head to Head: Remote Usability Testing Takes on Live Usability Testing in the HFES Ultimate Fight Challenge (8:30-10:00 a.m.): Remote usability testing is emerging as a popular approach through which evaluators can test technology interfaces on a large number of participants quickly and inexpensively. Two types of remote studies have been employed, either with a moderator interacting remotely with the participant or in an unmoderated format. This session is a novel format that pits the two in a head-to-head challenge using audience participants, who will be able to decide for themselves the advantages and disadvantages of each method. Speakers: Marc Resnick, Bentley University; Ania Rodriguez, Keylime Interactive
• Harvesting Innovation in the Industry: Prescriptions for Breakthrough Products (10:30 a.m-12:00 noon)
  This panel will bring together human factors leaders from some of the most innovative companies in the technology domain. They will present how their companies have achieved such high levels of innovation and how this impacts the practice of human factors. Speakers: Felix Portnoy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Victoria Bellotti, PARC; Arnie Lund, Microsoft; Dan Russell, Google; Kristian Simsarian, IDEO; Luke Wroblewski, Yahoo!; Marc Resnick, Bentley University
• Blasphemy or Pragmatics? When NOT to Follow User-Centered Design Techniques (1:30-3:00 p.m.): This invited panel brings together several high-profile members of the HCI community for an exciting, if not controversial, discussion and debate. Each is well versed in the principles and best practices of user-centered design, user experience research, and design innovation. How do they respond to the emerging topic of when NOT to use conventional user-centered design techniques? Speakers: Anthony Andre, Interface Analysis Associates; Jay Elkerton, Emerson Process Management; Steve Portigal, Portigal Consulting; Cordell Ratzlaff, Cisco; Dan Saffer, Kicker Studio; Dan Rosenberg, SAP
• Networking Event: The Computer Systems Technical Group and Internet Technical Group will hold a networking event starting at 3:30 p.m.

But Wait, There's More!
Additional usability and HCI presentations will be made on other days of the meeting, including the list below.

Subject Area: HCI Related

Mon. 9:00 AM (Workshop, ends 4:30pm)

Online Usability Testing: Moving Beyond the Lab

Tue. 10:30 AM

Designing for Human-Centered Systems: Situational Risk as a Factor of Trust in Automation

Tue. 1:30 PM

Investing in User Research: Making Strategic Choices

Designing Products with Emotion: Fad, or Here to Stay?

Using Eye Tracking to Examine Age-Related Differences in Web Site Performance

Accessible Experience Lab: Discovering the Impact of Design on Disabilities

Click This!: A Study on Optimizing Toolbar Placement in Computer Graphical User Interfaces

HCI and Usability Issues in Social Network Design

Developmental Human Factors: Children's Mental Models of Computers

Tue. 3:30 PM

Checking It Twice: Age-Related Differences in Double Checking During Visual Search

Wed. 8:30 AM

Neck Biomechanics and Multiple Wide Computer Displays

Fatigue Evaluation of a MH-60 Helicopter Input Device

Ergonomic Comparison of Slanted and Vertical Computer Mouse Designs

The Effect of Disability and Approach on Touch Screen Performance During a Number Entry Tasks

Effects of User Age and Zoomable User Interfaces on Information-Searching Tasks in a Map-Type Space

Head to Head: Remote Usability Testing Takes on Live Usability Testing in the HFES Ultimate Fighting Challenge

Human Engineering the Keyboard - 40 Years Later

The Effects of Acoustic Turn-by-Turn Navigation on Wayfinding

Wed. 10:30 AM

Harvesting Innovation in the Industry: Prescriptions for Breakthrough Products

Product Archetype of Personal Computers

Integrating Route and Survey Learning in Complex Virtual Environments: Using a 3-D Map

Game-Based Learning: The Impact of Flow State and Videogame Self-Efficacy

Military Training in Virtual Environments: User Interface Evaluations

Leveraging Serious Games and Advanced Training Technologies for Enhanced Cognitive Skill Development

Team Performance as a Function of Task Difficulty in a Computer Game

Harvesting Innovation in the Industry: Prescriptions for Breakthrough Products

Wed. 1:30 PM

Blasphemy or Pragmatics: When NOT to Follow User-Centered Design Techniques

Cognitive Abilities and the Measurement of World Wide Web Usability

Getting the Buzz: What's Next for Tactile Information Delivery?

Thu. 8:30 AM

Scaling Usability in Terms of Requirements: A Method for Evaluating User Interfaces

Disability and Orientation-Specific Performance During a Reciprocal Tapping Task

Designing Flight Information Displays for Quick Information Access: A Case Study of an International Airport

Identifying Aggregate Scanning Strategies to Improve Usability Evaluations

When a User Interface Is Good Enough: User Ratings in UI Design

Thu. 3:30 PM

Comparison of Mouse and Keyboard Efficiency

To Customize or Not to Customize? The Use of a Customization Tool to Augment Information Indexing in a Computer Desktop Environment

Contact Location Offset to Improve Small Target Selection on Touchscreen

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