Software Usability: Research Field at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso

November 13, 10am, Room IBC 2-1, Escuela de Ingenieria Informatica, Av. Brasil No. 2241, Valparaiso   10.00 – 10.15: Opening session 10.15 – 11.00: Software Usability: A Challenge for Software Engineers in Latin America - Cristian Rusu (PUCV, Chile)11.00 - 11.45: Understanding Users: Requirements Engineering Meets Interaction Design -Carina Alves (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil)11.45 - 12.30: Mejor prevenir que curar: Gestión del Cambio y Retorno de la Inversión - Marcelo Garrido (Amable, Chile) 12.30 – 13.00: Coffee Break 13.00 – 13.20: Usability of Semantic Search Engines - Cristhy Jimenez (PUCV, Chile)13.20 – 13.40: Usability Evaluation for Transactional Web Sites - Renato Otaiza (PUCV, Chile)13.40 - 14.00: Usability Evaluation for Videogames - Diego Zamorano (PUCV, Chile)14.00 – 14.20: Usability Patterns for Weblogs - Christian Riquelme (PUCV, Chile)14.20 – 14.40: Usability Patterns for Chilean Digital Newspapers - Tomas Saavedra (PUCV, Chile)14.40 – 15.00: Localization and Usability of Amadeus LMS - Mauricio Aburto, Mauricio Muñoz (PUCV, Chile)15.00 – 15.20: Developing Usability – Centered Amadeus LMS Modules - Daniel Ojeda (PUCV, Chile)15.20 – 15.40: Web Usage Mining and Web Sites’ Usability - Mauricio Galdames (PUCV, Chile)15.40 – 16.00: Open Discussion 16.00 – 18.00: Usability Labs Open House (including demos) – Room IBC 3-5