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Dear all, Apologies for the cross posting, but I wanted to share information about a fantastic and free upcoming event at Simmons College in Boston. November 12, 2009 is the World Usability Day. Simmons GSLIS (Graduate School of Library and Information Science) Usability Lab (http://gslis.simmons.edu/usability/), in partnering with the Student Chapters of American Society of Information Science and Technology (http://gslis.simmons.edu/blogs/asist/) and Special Library Association (http://gslis.simmons.edu/wikis/sla/Main_Page), will host an event in the morning of November 12th at Linda Paresky Conference Center (3rd floor of Main College Building), Simmons College. The event is open to the public, and the registration is free. Below are the details of the event: 9:00-9:15 Welcome 9:15-10:00 Keynote: The Top Ten Myths About Usability. Tom Tullis, Vice President of Usability at Fidelity Investments 10:00-11:00 Usability Lab as a Collaborative Platform for Applied Research, Experiential Learning, and Community Services. Rong Tang (Director, Simmons GSLIS Usability Lab) and Linnea Johnson (Manager, Simmons GSLIS Usability Lab) 11:00-12:00 Poster session and tours of Simmons GSLIS Usability Lab The keynote speaker Thomas S. (Tom) Tullis is Vice President of Usability at Fidelity Investments and Adjunct Professor at Bentley University in the Human Factors in Information Design program. He joined Fidelity in 1993 and was instrumental in the development of the company's usability department. Its facilities include a state-of-the-art Usability Lab. Prior to joining Fidelity, he held positions at Canon Information Systems, McDonnell Douglas, Unisys Corporation, and Bell Laboratories. He and Fidelity's usability team have been featured in a number of publications, including Newsweek, Business 2.0, Money, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. Tullis received a B.A. from Rice University, an M.A. in experimental psychology from New Mexico State University, and a Ph.D. in engineering psychology from Rice University. During his 30 years of experience in human-computer interface studies, he has published more than 50 papers in numerous technical journals and has been an invited speaker at national and international conferences. He also holds eight U.S. patents. He is co- author (with Bill Albert) of the book "Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting Usability Metrics" (Morgan Kaufman, March 2008) and co-author (with Bill Albert and Donna Tedesco) of the forthcoming book, "Beyond the Usability Lab: Conducting Large-Scale User Experience Studies"(Morgan Kaufman, Jan. 2010). The poster session will feature following GSLIS student usability projects: . Borden, Daniel. Usability Testing: The Boston Redevelopment Authority Zoning Webpage . Chu, Ellen. Child's Usability Test: A Comparison Between the ICDL and Brooklyn Public Library Search Interfaces . Gulyamov, Otabek. UCLA Library Web Usability . Lee, Kyoung sun. Running a Usability Test: Searching in SIRIS . McMahon, Mark. Usability Testing: Faceted Browsing . Rodzvilla, John. Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For: Testing the Usability of Online Research Guides in Academic Libraries Registration is required to attend the event. The deadline for registration is: November 9, 2009. To register, please click on the following link: http://gsliswud.eventbrite.com/ For directions and maps of Simmons College, please click on the following link: http://www.simmons.edu/overview/directions/ We hope to see you there! Rong Tang and Linnea Johnson ---- Linnea Johnson '04LS Assistant Manager of Information Technology GSLIS Adjunct Faculty Graduate School of Library and Information Science GSLIS Technology Group Simmons College 300 The Fenway Boston, MA 02115 617-521-2834 [log in to unmask] http://gslislab.simmons.edu