Microsoft / HCDE World Usability Day

Microsoft and the University of Washington's Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering are excited co-host this year's Puget Sound World Usability Day event. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend the event, located at the Microsoft Conference Center in Redmond, Washington.

Program
We are arranging an amazing lineup of speakers from Microsoft, the University of Washington, and the Puget Sound UX community. The event will be at the Microsoft Conference Center. In person registration will start at 12:30 pm, with conference proper starting at 1:00 pm. Here is the event schedule:

12:30 Registration

1:00 Amy Alberts - Don't Hate Me Because I'm Beautiful: Windows Phone Design

1:30 Bill Flora - Evolving the Metro Design Language

2:00 Break

2:15 Dennis Wixon & Daniel Wigdor - Brave GUI: World Creating Graphical User Interfaces to Facilitate Natural User Interaction

2:35 Toni Ferro - The Integration of Social Networking Services and Publicly Available Infor¬mation in Contemporary Knowledge Work

2:55 David Sherwin – Frog Research Approach

3:15 Break

3:35 Rob Reederv-Making Trust User Experiences usable with NEAT

3:55 Travis Kriplean - Is This What You Meant? Improving Civic Discussion on the Web with Reflect and ConsiderIt

4:15 Tim Nichols - Unique Challenges for Player Instruction Systems in Kinect Games

4:35 Ali VassighUsability Considerations for 3D Air Gestures with Xbox Kinect

5:00 Closing Mixer

Those who can't attend in person, may view the event live starting at 1:00PM at: http://msstudios-chan1.wm.llnwd.net/msstudios_chan1

There is no need to rsvp or pre-register for this event. Registration is on-site, and all are welcome. Just show up and have a great time! We look forward to seeing you there.