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The Eyes Have It (NUCHI Meeting - Thurs, June 26)

jpetersen — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:37:14 +0000

NUCHI will be holding a demo and discussion of the TOBII eye tracking system. Eye tracking systems are used in larger usability studies. This is a rare opportunity!

More info on eye tracking research can be found here: http://www.useit.com/eyetracking/

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Here is the info from NUCHI:

What is NUCHI?
The Northern Utah chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI). *Yes, it’s a mouthful!*

Time & Location
7:00pm Thursday, June 26, 2008 at NextPage, 13997 S. Minuteman Drive, Draper. (map)

Topic
See a demonstration of a TOBII eye tracking system used in software usability analysis. Join in a discussion of what this technology can find that other methods can’t.

Also, see a new application of the Microsoft Ribbon technology and how it is being applied to navigate complex clinical software. This software is being developed with Microsoft Expressions Blend and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). This process is intended to let designers build the software interface and interaction and pass it directly to developers.

Carl Bechtold is an Intermountain Healthcare Human Factors Engineer on loan to the GE/Intermountain partnership. That partnership is developing an Enterprise Clinical Information System (ECIS) for Intermountain and commercial deployment through GE Healhtcare.

IxDA Utah Chapter

jpetersen — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:12:03 +0000

The Interaction Designers in Utah (IxDA) chapter was just recently started. For information and to join, visit their website:

http://ixdautah.collectivex.com/main/summary

“The IxDA is all about bringing interaction designers together. The life a designer is a busy one and we may not all be able to meet face to face as often as we’d like. This group site will help local IxDA members communicate, share ideas, inspire each other and hopefully help facilitate friendships around our passion for great design.”

More from Future of Web Apps

jpetersen — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:35:08 +0000

In reference to my original post, the conference sessions were recorded and most of them have been posted for free download.

MP3’s & Presentations
Podcasts

I highly recommend listening to:

Kathy Sierra of Creating Passionate Users (not quite up yet, but keep your eyes out)
Cal Henderson of Flickr
Kevin Marks of Google
Leah Culver of Pownce
Emily Boyd of Remember the Milk
Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library

Social networking is definitely the popular topic of the moment. It’s going to be interesting to see where it takes us - especially if we can get all of the social networking sites to work together. Speaking of social networking, who is on Twitter? My Twitter name is kittygutz - feel free to follow me.

Utah Represent at Future of Web Apps

jpetersen — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:24:12 +0000

Brad McCall and I are representing Utah and Omniture at the Future of Web Apps conference in Miami.

After it ends, I’ll post some of the interesting tid bits I walked away with. In the meantime, one of the things I love about these conferences are the slew of new websites I learn about. Here are some that have caught my eye.

My Mile Marker
Bountii - Search Low Prices
Rescue Time
Anywhere.fm
Thinkature
Buxfer - Track Your Money
YouOS
Xobni

Northern Utah Computer Human Interaction group

jpetersen — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:41:21 +0000

Wanted to let everyone know about this group… there is a meeting tomorrow evening. It looks promising.

nuchi.acm.org

Web Designers Interviews

jpetersen — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:34:21 +0000

I came across this web site full of interviews with web designers… could prove to be interesting.

McCann Erickson Tour - Postponed to Wed. May 30, 2007

jpetersen — Mon, 21 May 2007 21:15:09 +0000

Unfortunately something has come up for the tour giver this Wednesday, so we will need to move our tour to the following week. It will still occur at 7 pm. I’ll send a reminder next week as well.

John Nack - Senior Product Manager @ Adobe

jpetersen — Fri, 18 May 2007 20:53:57 +0000

Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/
Podcast Interview: http://photoshop.weblogsinc.com/2006/03/03/inside-mac-interview-with-photoshop-product-manager-john-nack/

Usability Testing

jpetersen — Fri, 18 May 2007 17:37:40 +0000

Does anyone have recommendations for usability testing organizations?

McCann Erickson Tour

jpetersen — Mon, 14 May 2007 19:21:40 +0000

I’ve arranged for a tour of McCann Erickson’s office on Wed., May 23 @ 7pm. Please send an email to kittygutz at gmail dot com if you are able to come so that I can let them know how large of a group to expect.

The address for their office is:
32 Exchange Place
Salt Lake City

I’ll post a reminder as it gets closer.