World Usability Day at Chalmers University of Technology 2011

To mark the World Usability Day, we invite practitioners and students to come along to an evening seminar to stimulate discussions on this year’s theme – ¨EDUCATION: Designing for Social Change¨. The event is organized by Division Design and Human Factors at the Department of Product and Production Development at Chalmers, Göteborg, Sweden.

The evening will see 6 short presentations on sparking behavior change from different perspectives. All presentations will be held in Swedish. Featured speakers are:

1. Introduction, Oskar Rexfelt - Assistant Professor at Division Design and Human Factors, Chalmers

2. Habits and behavioural change in everyday life, Anders Biel - Professor at Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg

3. Creating a greener driving behaviour through human-machine interaction design, Helena Strömberg - PhD student at Division Design and Human Factors, Chalmers

4. Design of a ship’s bridge, Lars-Ola Bligård - PhD student at Division Design and Human Factors, Chalmers

5. Exhibition design for Siemens Urban Sustainability Centre, Oskar Karlsson and Peter Polson - M.Sc. in Industrial Design Engineering

6. Design for green behaviour - a case study, Sara Renström - PhD student at Division Design and Human Factors, Chalmers

The event will run from 1700-1900 on November 10th. The venue is the VG lecture room (Ground Floor, V-building). There is no charge for this event and no need to register. If you have any queries about the event, please contact the organizer.

We hope you can join us!