World Usability Day 2008 in Redmond - Transport over to this event

Attend this event at Microsoft  -- see directions below.  Or attend remotely by Webcast at  http://msstudios-Live.wm.llnwd.net/msstudios_Live.     (Recommendation to MAC users:  If you don't already have it, download the free Flip4Mac viewer from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx and test our Webcast link above before the sessions.)  No Pre-registration necessary.  Attendance welcomed up to maximum space limitations! 

1:00-1:45PM:

Jason Kriese (Sr. Program Manager, Microsoft Auto) and Karen Kaushansky (Sr. User Experience Designer, Tellme),

Inside the car: Understanding user needs and user experience challenges

2:00-2:45PM:

Neeti Gupta (Product Manager, Microsoft Unified Communications),

Unified Communications:  Travel less AND get more done!

3:00-3:45PM:

Maggie McGehee (Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates, Transit Planner),

Public or Private, Large and Small:   Mass transportation usability at every scale

4:00-4:45PM:

Lisa Anderson (Principal User Experience Director, Microsoft Surface Computing), Dennis Wixon (User Research Manager, Microsoft Surface Computing), and Ken Mallit (Solutions Architect, US Technical Programs, Information Workers) ,

Traveling into the future -- what new user interface techniques hold in store for us all -- making life easier! 

  Note:  The Puget Sound UPA chapter workshop will be here in the same facility:  6:00 to 8:30 PM!

 Building: 33 (Conference Center) - Kodiak Room16070 N.E. 36th WayREDMOND, WA 98052, United StatesMSCC: Phone: (425) 70(x60033) | E-mail: bcenterEBC:   Phone: (425) 70(x60322) | E-mail: ebcfront If you take a bus to the Transit Center, you can walk to the 33 building:  cross 156th Ave NE and continue down NE 36th Street to building 33.   The following directions will work if you are driving from the west (Seattle):

1. From I-5 or I-405, take WA-520 E toward BELLEVUE / KIRKLAND / REDMOND.
2. Take the NE 40TH ST / NE 51ST ST exit.
3. Take the NE 40TH ST ramp where it splits from NE 51st
4. Turn RIGHT onto NE 40TH ST. 
5. Turn RIGHT onto 159TH AVE NE (you will go straight through the light at 156th AVE) 

The Building 33 Conference Center will be the 3rd building on your left, after you turn onto 159th.  It is at the intersection of 159th with NE 36th Way.    There is a parking garage under the Building 33 MS Conference Center building, and an elevator up to the first floor. Note that if you drive to the meeting, you will have to register your car at the front desk in building 33. Microsoft Host's name = Candace Soderston and Lada Gorlenko,   Name of meeting = World Usability Day