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After a short period of inactivity, we are very pleased to announce the next meeting of the Cambridge Usability Group! Microsoft Research have kindly agreed to host the event at which William Newman will be the speaker.
Date: Monday 25th July
Time: 6.30 for 6.45
Venue: Microsoft Research Cambridge [Map & address]
Cost: Please email cambridge.usability@gmail.com to reserve a place. The event is FREE and you do not need to be a UK UPA member to attend (note future events may not be free for non-members).
Here is William's introduction to his talk...
How can Human-Computer Interaction Research help the User Experience Professional?
HCI research focuses largely on designing novel interactive systems and on conducting studies of technologies and contexts of use. In this sense its methods and outputs have much in common with those of UX. Is this helpful to UX/usability practitioners? In my talk I will present some results from past research into the problem of achieving measurable improvements in interactive systems. I'll suggest that there is an opportunity to expand the role that UX professionals play in helping design teams meet performance targets, and that HCI researchers can serve a supporting role in providing relevant metrics, methods and models.
William Newman is a consultant and researcher in interactive system design. His first degree was in engineering, and took him into computer science, focusing first on Computer Graphics and then on HCI. He worked for 20 years in Xerox's labs in Palo Alto and Cambridge. He has co-authored textbooks on Computer Graphics and on Interactive System Design. William is a visiting professor at UCL's Interaction Centre (UCLIC) where he is involved in teaching and research, and is also a part-time researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge. He is support ACM SIGCHI as VP for Publications, leader of the CHI Papers Support Team, and co-chair of the CHI 2006 Engineering Community programme.