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GatewayCHI is theSt Louis User Experience (STLUX) regional organization for usability practitioners, students and others interested in the areas of User Experience, human computer interaction (HCI), Usability Interaction Design, Usability Architecture, Information Architecture. In active seasons members of the organization meet on a periodic basis for presentations and activities. We’ve also been known to pull off a day-long conference STLUX every other year (See the Most Recent STLUX Conference 2011) and members host the annual World Usability Day Event at the St. Louis Science Center in November.
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GatewayCHI Schedule for 2011-2012:
Thurs. Nov. 6, 2011
World Usability Day Planning Meeting
6:00-7:30 pm, Washington University CAIT Facility, 10 East Jackson, Clayton, MO. Pizza by PIE. $6 for non-members and $2 for members.
RSVP at eVite: World Usability Day Planning
November 19, 2011
World Usability Day
10am-2pm, St. Louis Science Center, World Usability Day is November 19 from 10-2 at the St. Louis Science Center. We would love to have you work part of the day and/or have your company host a table activity. 3,000 attendees go through the event. We hand out giveaways and every UX participant receives a t-shirt. Contact: WUD Chair to attend and host a table or contact Mike Geen at krismike@sbcglobal.net to sponsor the event.
RSVP at eVite: World Usability Day
January 25, 2012 (Weds) User Experience Presentation, "The Fallacy of User Attention-Users are Not Like Us" by Brad Nunnally
6:00 is Pizza from PI and Meeting is from 6:00-8:00 pm at Washington University CAIT Facility, 10 East Jackson, Clayton, MO, Room 24. Presentation description is below:
Users are not like us — they view the world with a completing different filter. As designers, we’ve trained ourselves to notice every little detail about a design — everything grabs our attention. We assume that users do the same when coming to a site or using an application for the first time. We assume that all those details that took us, as the designers, hours to figure out just right will catch a user’s eye and invoke pleasant thoughts and emotions that go along with facilitating a positive user experience. But, that’s not how our brains work. In fact, the average user will miss almost everything within their field of vision when working with a design for the first time. This phenomenon occurs all the time during usability studies, much to our bewilderment. Fortunately, recent research within neurological and cognitive science offers some clues to why this behavior occurs. This session will review several concepts that shows how little people actually pay attention to the things they interact with, and will provide some tips and tricks for getting past this mental limitation.
February 23, 2012 (Thurs) Looking Glass Software, Teaching Middle School Students to Code and CHI Research Presentation
5:30 is Pizza from PI and Meeting is from 6:00-7:30 Washington University CAIT Facility, 10 East Jackson, Clayton, MO, Room 143
March Dinner Social and Case Study Presentation at Infuz
Date TBD
Meeting an Infuz. Hafiz Hudda will present a Case Study from a project at United Way, titled, 'Helping People Help People'.
April Dinner Social and Eye Tracking & Biometrics Presentation at Moosylvania
April 4, 6pm
Dr. Richard Hall and Dr. Hong Shen's research team will present practical ways to use Biometrics during usability labs. They will also demonstrate their eye tracking lab. Students will present research performed with the tools.
May
TBD
Every other year we host the St. Louis User Experience Conference. The most recent conference was in February, 2011. The next conference is being planned for February, 2013. Find out more about the STL UX Conference.
Interested in presenting?
If you’re interested in presenting to an enthusiastic audience of local usability practitioners, please let us know and we’ll help you get the word out to the community.
All questions, comments, concerns, quibbles and queries should be directed to GatewayCHI.