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World Usability Day New England

World Usability Day 2008

Country: US Local start: Event is Over
City (& state): Putney, VT Local finish: Event is Over
Event location: Landmark College
Charles Drake Lane
05346

Event Details

Dartmouth College and Landmark College join together again to host this conference featuring presentations, workshops, and demonstrations focusing on how universal usability can enhance teaching, training, learning, and understanding across people of all abilities. Featuring keynote speaker Peter Morville.Peter is a passionate advocate for the critical roles that search and findabilitiy play in defining the user experience. Peter's latest book, Ambient Findability, exlores search, wayfinding, marketing, information interaction, literacy, librarianship, authority, and culture at the crossroads of ubiquitous computing and the Internet. Topics of the Day include:

  • Information literacy
  • Universal design & usability
  • Web design & accessibility
  • Curriculum development

The program will also feature:

  • Student panel: Discovering Usability Issues in our Classwork
  • Roundtable discussion: Evaluating for Usability and Universal Design for Instruction

 Register at www.landmark.edu/wud

Contact the organizer

Julie Strothman
E-mail: jstrothman [AT] landmark [DOT] edu
Phone: 802-387-7137
WUD Chapter or Company: Landmark College & Dartmouth College

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