Submission Ideas

Here are presentation topics suggested by 2004 conference attendees:

• Accessibility – including physically challenged issues
• Advancements in usability research
• Advancements in web application usability
• Agile development and usability
• Best practices on web site – for example, shopping carts, search engines
• Business and Usability integration
• Business justification of usability
• Card sorting
• Case studies – showing results of applied usability
• Collecting and sharing design patterns
• Communication across disciplines
• Contextual Inquiry
• Controversial issues
• Creating your own usability lab – how-tos, pros and cons
• Creative ways to use usability testing
• Cross cultural research
• CSS layout and its relationship to accessibility and usability
• Design documentation – how to communicate your designs to the development team
• Discount usability
• Documentation usability
• Effect of broadband/display/mobility on user expectations and emotions
• Ethical issues around usability and usability testing
• Eye tracking
• Field study techniques
• Finding your first job in usability or, finding the hidden usability job market
• How can creative process techniques in other fields (e.g. playwriting, storytelling) can be used in the creative process of user interaction design
• How effective are focus groups in gathering user information?
• How non-usability experts can adopt usability practices in their work
• How technology decisions impact user interface design
• How to do user research when your company/organization doesn’t support user research
• How to handle usability when user interface development is done offshore
• How to start a usability program
• Information architecture
• Integrating UCD into other methodologies and processes
• International usability testing and user centered design
• Intranet usability
• Introduction to topics that can be used in usability techniques, such as marketing, psychology, statistics
• Longer-term field study techniques such as diary studies
• Managing Usability Teams
• Methodologies for fostering innovation within a team
• Mobile device usability
• New common industry formats
• Organizational Change
• Outsourcing
• Personas
• Presenting effective user interface functionality across varying sized devices: large monitors, PDA, cell phone
• Prioritizing UCD activities
• Prioritizing usability findings
• Problem solving – what issues have you faced, and how have you resolved them (organizational or project-related
• Product interface design
• Prototyping
• Remote usability
• Soft skills in usability (e.g. interviewing, running focus groups, negotiating)
• Strategic usability
• Task analysis
• Translating web sites into different languages
• Usability and six sigma
• Usability and voting issues (perhaps a retrospective of the 2004 US election)
• Usability consulting issues and advice
• Usability for the disenfranchised
• Usability in advanced technologies
• Usability in forms design
• Usability of applications on mobile devices
• Usability of user authentication – how to balance usability and security
• Using tools and techniques in the ‘real world’ work environment (what works, what compromises need to be made)
• VOIP usability
• Web application interface design
• When to use different types of user research techniques