Halifax Ergonomics Interest Group WUD Meeting

UPDATE - This event will be webcast. Join us at:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/think-usability-webcasting

NO need to connect to Facebook BTW!

Halifax Ergonomics Interest Group (HEIG) Special World Usability Day Meeting!
November 12, 2009. 5:00 – 7:00 pm

Think Usability, 1701 Hollis Street, Suite L107, Halifax, NS, B3J 3M8
- Parking on Water Street or in the Hollis Street Parkade
- Suite L107 is on the main Hollis Street Level, look for the glass doors with ‘Focus Room’ on them

You are cordially invited to attend a special World Usability Day meeting of the Halifax Ergonomics Interest Group (HEIG). This meeting is being hosted by Think Usability - Atlantic Canada’s ONLY full service usability firm. The agenda for the meeting is:

5:00 - 5:10 pm  Welcome / HEIG

5:10 - 5:30 pm  Web / software design: usability and sustainability
                       Jeff MacArthur ( CommandN / MGImedia )

5:30 - 5:50 pm  Usability Testing: the key to useful, profitable, sustainable websites/games
                               Mike Downs ( Think Usability )

5:50 - 6:10 pm  Product and Industrial Design: useable products and product life cycles
                               Nick Imrie ( Imrie Design )

6:10 - 7:00 pm  Networking / Social Session – to be held at Think Usability

Hope you can make it - and please do pass this on to anyone you think might be interested in attending!

About the Halifax Ergonomics Interest Group (HEIG)

The purpose of the HEIG is to bring together, from the greater Halifax region, anyone and everyone with an interest in any area of ergonomics and/or human factors. If you are interested in any area of design (physical, cognitive, organizational, social, etc.) and how design can either enhance or negatively impact human well being then please join us. Designers, industrial designers, product designers, kinesiologists, sociologists, psychologists, organizational behaviourists, engineers, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, ergonomists, human factors engineers, usability specialists, human computer interaction experts, occupational health nurses, safety professionals, everyone with an interest is very welcome to join us.

HEIG is an informal group. There are no fees, no membership requirements, and no requirement to attend any or all meetings. The sole purpose of HEIG is to allow people with an interest in the full and broad scope of ergonomics / human factors to get together, chat, learn, network and broaden their understanding of how design can enhance the lives of people.

HEIG meetings will be scheduled approximately four (4) times a year. The Halifax Ergonomics Interest Group is being sponsored by the Atlantic Region of the Association of Canadian Ergonomists.

Please RSVP to Jonathan Tyson if you can make it.