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Bentley College is pleased to announce its 2008 Spring Semester Course Schedule. Courses are listed below, and additional information can be found online.
May 15-16, 2008
IN920C.001 Ethnography for Work and
Design
G. David
June 5-6, 2008
IN923C.001 Designing for Accessibility
(web offering)
T. Tullis
June 19-20, 2008
IN900.001 Human Factors and the User
Experience (web offering)
W. Gribbons
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Meeting on May 13, 2008:
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Lynn Cherny, Tuesday, May 13,
2008 - 6:30 PM |
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Abstract: Members of
BostonCHI who attended the international CHI 2008 conference in
Florence, Italy in April will share with us some of their experiences,
photos, stories & favorite papers. The theme of this year's
conference was "art.science.balance". Presenters: Lynn
Cherny is a user experience design consultant with 10 years
industry and research experience in interface design, customer
research, and usability. Lynn has worked at Autodesk, The Mathworks,
Adobe Systems (Seattle & San Jose), Axance.com (Paris), TiVo
(Alviso, CA), & Excite (later Excite@Home) (Redwood City, CA). She
received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in Linguistics; an M.Phil.
from Cambridge University in Computer Speech and Language Processing;
and a B.A. from University of Maryland in Linguistics. Her blogs and
other info can be found at ghostweather.com. Jen McGinn is a Senior User Experience Engineer in the Software Experience Design (xDesign) group at Sun Microsystems, in Burlington, MA. She has written branded interaction guidelines for installation, developed personas for Sun Learning Services, and simplified the user experience with the Java Enterprise System. Jen has worked for Sun for over 12 years in user experience, technical training, and technical writing. Before joining Sun, Jen led other lives as a software developer and system administration consultant. She holds a BS in Information Systems from UMBC and an MS in Human Factors in Information Design from Bentley. Lisa Neal is Editor-in-Chief of eLearn Magazine and Adjunct Clinical Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine where she teaches a course on Online Consumer Health. Lisa holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University. Lisa blogs about health and education at LisaNeal.com. Chauncey
Wilson is on the faculty of the Information Design program at
Bentley
College, and has spent more than 20 years as an engineering
psychologist, user interface designer, usability engineer, and product
development manager. His academic background includes a physics degree
and graduate training in social psychology, human factors engineering,
and statistics. His consulting clients have included Microsoft, FEDEX,
Lotus, Reuters, and 3COM. He is past president of the Northern New
England chapter of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) and
the STC Usability SIG, and member of the Usability Professionals'
Association, the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, and the ACM
SIGCHI. He co-wrote The Usability
Engineering Framework for Product
Design and Evaluation in the handbook of HCI and has presented
on the
psychology of victimization, research ethics, cyberlaw, usability
methods, web design, and documentation usability. Chauncey is also the co-chair of the Usability and User Experience track for CHI 2009 in Boston. |
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Refreshments at 6:30 pm. Meeting from 7:00 - 8:30 pm. Meetings are free and open to the public. Please RSVP when possible to BostonCHI@sun.com. Those who have not RSVP'd are always welcome. A photo ID is required to gain admittance to Sun. Wheel chair accessible.
| BostonCHI
2008 Calendar |
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| Tues 8 Jan 2008 | 7-Group Party at the Asgard! |
| Tues 12 Feb | Regular Meeting Eric Neumann: The Implications of the Semantic Web |
| Tues 11 Mar | Regular Meeting Rick Treitman, Buzzword founder and CEO, and Robby Shaver, Buzzword chief designer |
| Tues 8 Apr | Regular Meeting Mark Ashdown: Tabletop Displays and Remote Collaboration |
| Tues 13 May | Regular Meeting CHI 2008 Recap |
| Tues 10 June | Regular Meeting Orit Shaer: Reality Based Interaction: Understanding the Next Generation of Human-Computer Interaction (Edith Ackerman will hopefully be rescheduled.) |
| Tues 22 July | Picnic
in the Park! Danehy Park, Cambridge |
| No
Meetings in July
or August |
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| Tues 9 Sept | Regular Meeting TBA |
| Tues 14 Oct | Regular Meeting TBA |
| Tues 11 Nov | Regular Meeting TBA |
| Tues 9 Dec | TBA |
