Conferences and Events: Past UPA Conferences
UPA 2004: Connecting Communities
UPA 2004 explored the many ways that communities affect usability and the user experience, as well as the ways that the user experience affects communities.
- Conference Dates: June 7-11, 2004
- Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Attendees: 450+
- Conference Web Site and Final Program
- Conference Committee
Keynotes and Invited Speakers
- Keynote: Ginny Redish: Yours, Mine and Ours - Connecting Communities
- Closing Plenary: Howard Rheingold: Smart Mobs
- Invited Speaker: Howard Berkowitz: What Problem are You trying to Solve?
- Invited Speaker: Chris Conley: The Ubiquitous Network
- Invited Speaker: Steve Denning: The Key to Connecting Communities (5 MB)
- Invited Speakers: Kinnebrew & Kelkar: The Urban Opportunity Project (new window)
Conference Blogs
The Idea Market - Afterthoughts
Ever feel that the best part of a conference happens between sessions? Ulf Andersson did. So he devised a new format for conference sessions called an Idea Market. Attendees are free to roam from one idea station to the next, until they find a topic that they are interested in. Multiple "activators" stir up lively discourse on a variety of topics in a highly interactive, fluid session.
Here are the Afterthoughts from the 2004 Idea Markets:
Wednesday
- How can the UML approach be enhanced and integrated into the User-Centred design approach? - Halima Adebayo
- Lies, damn lies, and statistics: How does corporate culture affect the reporting of usability results? - Lori Anschuetz
- How do you turn usability test findings into recommendations? - Kris Betcher
- What big win did you have last year? - Scott Butler
- Best Practices in Utest Logging - David Dayton
- How many users with disabilities should you include when conducting a usability test for accessibility? - Mary Martinson Grossnickle
- Remote Moderated Usability - Mark Safire
Friday
- How Can We Best Sell Usability - Karen Bachmann
- How to evaluate the user-centeredness of companies? - Nigel Bevan
- How do we perform usability testing when the tasks are so novel that users don’t even know they want to perform them? - Sam Burns & Patrick Williams
- Why don’t Usability Deliverables Get Used - Janice James
- Building a Usability Repository: Share your Wish List - Carol J. Smith
- Consultant or employee - Who is best suited to do the best usability work on a project? - Ron Sova
- How do we incorporate user-centered design into agile development methodology? - Pawan Vora
Presentations and Advanced Topic Seminars
| SPEAKER | PRESENTATION TITLE |
| Bill Killam | 
Voting
Equipment in America: Observations from the Field |
| Sharon Laskowski |
Standards
and Testing for Usability and Accessibility |
| Louise Ferguson |
International
Perspectives on Voting Systems |
| Amanda Nance | 
Master's Program at Georgia Tech |
| Josephine Scott |
Voting
System Users: Profile of a County Clerk |
| Josephine Scott |
Understanding
Voters: The Elections Landscape |
| Tullis & Stetson | A
Comparison of Questionnaires for Assessing Website Usability |
| Preston & Fowler | Using Sounds and Graphics in Application Interfaces (new window) |
Do you have a presentation to add to this site? Send the presentation file or URL to Web Director Gary Macomber. Files may be in Acrobat (PDF), Rich Text (RTF), Word (DOC) or Powerpoint (PPT) format, and should be under 2 Megs.