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12th Annual
Conference - Advanced Topic Seminars
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| The Advanced Topics Seminars are forums where
experienced usability professionals can discuss focused topics
in more detail than presentations. These seminars will occur
during the main conference and will accommodate up to 20 people.
The leader(s) of each seminar will present the advanced topic
for about 30 minutes and then allow about 1-1/2 hours for discussion.
The Advanced Topics Seminars are intended to offer a high
degree of interaction. The results of the seminars will be
captured and posted to the UPA website, allowing for sharing
and learning following the conference. Advanced topics will
be challenging and geared toward usability professionals.
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Wednesday, June 25, 2003 |
| 1:15-3:15 |
Filling in the Gaps
of UI Accessibility Management and Research
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Shawn Lawton Henry;
Sheryl Burgstahler, PhD |
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Topics
for Experienced Practitioners;
In-Depth, Specialized, or Research Topics |
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Curricula: |
Usability for Special Audiences
(People with Disabilities, the Elderly, Children) |
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This Advanced Topic
Seminar is designed for participants with experience in
managing usability projects and departments, accessibility
implementation, research, and/or ethnographic studies.
Join us to share best practices on managing accessibility
in projects and organizations, to identify what information
managers with accessibility responsibility need, and to
list what is currently available. We will focus on documenting
what is needed that is not available (that is, what needs
to be developed), and on defining potential UI accessibility
research projects to benefit usability professionals.
Participants will gather tips and techniques to help in
their day-to-day accessibility initiatives, as well as
help shape future research and resource projects to advance
accessible design within and beyond the usability field. |
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Thursday, June 26, 2003 |
| 10:15- 12:15 |
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Assessing the Usability
of Speech Applications: Optimizing Techniques for Voice
User Interfaces |
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Susan Hura & Jennifer
Wilmer
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Audience: |
Topics for Experienced
Practitioners |
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Curricula: |
Usability for Special Audiences
(People with Disabilities, the Elderly, Children); Wearable,
Remote, Automated, & Portable |
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The purpose of this
session is to gather usability professionals in the specialized
domain of voice user interfaces (VUIs) to discuss the
best techniques for evaluating the usability of speech
applications. Attendees will be encouraged to share their
VUI testing experience to allow the group to discover
the range of techniques being used in the field. Not only
will we catalogue usability testing techniques, but we
will also lay out the advantages and limitations of different
methods, and establish guidelines for which techniques
are appropriate across the development lifecycle. |
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| 1:15- 3:15 |
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Lower Literacy Populations:
Implications for Usability Inspections and Usability Testing |
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William Gribbons
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Topics for Experienced
Practitioners; In-Depth, Specialized, or Research Topics |
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Curricula: |
Usability for Special Audiences
(People with Disabilities, the Elderly, Children) |
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This presentation will
explore the requirements of lower literacy populations
and the implications of those requirements for usability
inspections and usability testing. Using research from
the field of educational psychology as a foundation, this
presentation will extend this research to suggest best
practices for usability inspections and testing. |
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