Presentation Archive
Previous Meetings and Presentation Material
| Date | Presenter | References / Other Notes |
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| May 22, 2008 | Who's Controlling Who? Tom Petersen, MST |
Marshal McLuhan once said, "We shape our tools and there after our tools shape us." McLuhan identified 4
laws that apply to all media at the moment of creation: The artifact:
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| April 24, 2008 | Accessibility Casey Douglass, Gina Bhalwalkar and Andrea Spray |
You asked for it! This month's GatewayCHI meeting will focus on the topic of Accessibility and will consist
of a number of small presentations including:
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| March 28, 2008 | Carol Farnsworth, Senior Director Customer Experience Research at Keynote Systems, Inc. |
Carol Farnsworth, Keynote's Senior Director for Customer Experience Research, has been conducting usability
research for more than 10 years. Recently, her research has been focused on quantitative/qualitative usability
research on web sites. Carol brings years of customer interface design and customer experience research and
evaluation to the Keynote team. Prior to joining Keynote, Carol taught usability methods and testing courses
at Stanford University and served as a faculty member in the university's Information/Web Technology department. She holds professional affiliations with the Usability Professionals Association, Bay CHI, and the Society for Technical Communication and the ACM.
Carol is widely recognized as an expert in her field and recently contributed a chapter entitled 'Aikot Corporation: A Case Study in Qualitative/Quantitative Remote Evaluation,' to the book, User-Centered Design Stories. She holds a BA in Sociology and Psychology from Denver University and a Masters in Education from Catholic University in Washington D.C. |
| February 27, 2008 | Presidential Candidate Website Comparison Review | We'll do a fun - and timely - Comparison Review of the remaining Presidential candidates' websites. Bring along examples of Comparison Review formats you've used! |
| January 24, 2008 | Caitlin Kelleher, Assistant Professor at Washington University |
Caitlin joined the faculty in the fall of 2007 after receiving her PhD in Computer Science from
Carnegie Mellon University where she worked with Randy Pausch. Her research interests lie in
Human-Computer Interaction and Computational Learning Environments. In particular, she's interested
in creating programming environments that engage a broad spectrum of children.
As her thesis work, she created and evaluated a programming system for middle school girls called Storytelling Alice that presents programming as a means to the end of storytelling. Learn more at: www.cse.wustl.edu/~ckelleher/ |
| December 13, 2007 | The Work Prism & the Design Prism Joe Grant |
User Experience practitioners often have a difficult time justifying and
integrating their activities into organizations. Joe will present two models to help us
realize that a large part of the dilemma lies in fundamental differences between the
endeavors of Design and typical Work so that we:
Understand how we achieve successful outcomes differently from other work groups - Recognize the right questions to drive the structure of product development activities. - Recognize where UX needs to stretch its practices, or partner with others, to be more effective in overall product development. Plus: It's the holiday season and - if you're anything like us - that means there’s a whole lot of e-shopping going on! Bring your best-of-the-best or worst-of-the-worst e-shopping examples to share. |
| October 25, 2007 | Technique Triathlon! | We'll put three usability evaluation techniques to the test: Paper Prototype Usability Lab, Hi-Fidelity Usability Lab and Design Walkthrough. Come with your thinking cap on and pencils poised! |
| September 27, 2007 | Eye Tracking Ann McNamara, SLU |
Ann McNamara, Assistant Professor at St Louis University, will talk about her research and provide an Eye Tracking demo! Ann's research interests include computer graphics, visual perception and eye tracking. Learn more about her at: http://euler.slu.edu/~amcnamara/
Plus: We've had many great submissions for the new GatewayCHI logo! Join us at the September meeting to vote on your favorite!we'd like to share and get your feedback on! |
| August 23, 2007 | Interactionary PLUS Bring-a-colleague night! | It's Pictionary - with a twist! We'll break into teams and take on a design challenge. Interactionary is sure to be a serious competition. Give your team a leg up by bringing along some talented colleagues. Why? Well, you bring 'em you keep 'em! The new colleagues you bring will play on your team. Also, bring a new colleague and you'll earn yourself a (small but fun) prize! |
| July 26, 2007 | Season Kick-off | The kick-off meeting for GatewayCHI will feature a panel of usability practitioners
representing various St Louis companies who attended the CHI and/or UPA conferences this year.
Each panelist will present their highlights from the conference attended. We'll follow-up with a Q&A.
Plus: GatewayCHI 2007/2008 Season Preview Stick around after the panel to discuss plans for the 2007/2008 GatewayCHI season. We have some great ideas that we'd like to share and get your feedback on! |
| March 13, 2006 | Dr. Sanda Erdelez, Associate Professor of Information Science, School of Information Science and Information Technologies, University of Missouri-Columbia; Founder of Information Experience Lab | When HCI Meets HIB (Human Information Behavior) |
| January 19, 2006 | Gina Calcaterra, Business/Usability
Consultant @ Perficient
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Challenges Faced in Designing and Evaluating Accessible User
Interfaces for the Blind |
| November 3, 2005 | Moderator: Charlotte Schwendeman, Director of User-Centered Approach, Perficient Panelists: Dr. Carol Righi, President, Righi Interface Engineering Dr. Jerry Weinberg, Associate Professor, Chair, Dept. of Computer Science, SIUE Danielle Gobert, Sr. Usability Architect, Enterprise-Rent-a-Car Hugues Belanger, Lead Usability Architect, Enterprise-Rent-a-Car Pat Malecek, AVP, User Experience Manager, A.G. Edwards Brad Nunnally, student, Dept. of Computer Science, SIUE |
World Usability Day
Panel - Gateway CHI |
| October 6, 2005 | Jeff Lash, Elsevier, User-Centered Design for Agile Project | In his presentation, Jeff gave an introduction to Agile and describe the benefits and challenges for user-centered designers working on Agile projects. |
| March 24, 2005 | Richard Hall and Madhu Reddy, of University of Missouri-Rolla, Bridging Cultures: From Academia to the ":Real World" | These UMR professors shared their vision of what the goals of HCI education and research should be in a research university, with a particular emphasis on the relationship to industry. |
| January 27, 2005 | Mike Coble and Kay McChesney, Ph.D. of Tripos, Measuring Quality of Use |
We learned about the mechanism used at Tripos for assessing a Quality of Use measurement for software and designs. |
| September 29, 2004 | Danielle Gobert from Perficient, Do Alternate Orientations of Navigation and Content Impact the Usability of Handheld Applications? |
Danielle discussed the findings from a study conducted on prototypes emulating a wireless brokerage application presented on a Pocket PC handheld device. |
| May 11, 2004 | Janice Simpson from Perficient and Chris Scheele from XTRA Lease, Handheld Computing: Plenty of promise, but where did all my screen real estate go? | Designing a handheld application introduces unique challenges that are not normally faced when designing web or desktop applications. The presenters shared their experiences and techniques used for designing and testing an application for a handheld device. |
| March 16, 2004 | Joe Grant, State Farm Insurance | |
| January 22, 2004 | Jennifer Ruffino of MasterCard Intl., Creating Usable Forms | Useful guidelines were provided for simplifying online forms, improving the user experience and increasing completion rates. |
| November 5, 2003 | Joe Haschart and Pat McCandless, Business Process Modeling: An Overview | An insightful discussion on how to know if what you are building is the right thing to build. This was followed by a presentation on Business Process Modeling, a technique to model business processes to ensure you are building the right thing. |
| September 25, 2003 |
Nisha Dharna, Effects of Animated Characters on User Anxiety and Usability Erin Harris, The Effects of Social Facilitation and Electronic Monitoring on Usability Testing |
Is a user's ability to quickly complete a task impacted by animated characters on the screen? Nisha Dharna initiated a lively discussion about which types of animated characters are most effective. How is a user's experience affected when a facilitator is present in the usability testing room, or when a project team is observing from behind the mirror? |
| May 14, 2003 | Edmond Abrahamian, Enhancing Usability through Personality-Aware Interfaces | Discussion on the effects of Personality-Aware Interfaces and how personality types (based on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) relate to learning preferences. Test results from an interface designed for a student's learning preference were presented. |
| February 3, 2003 | Joe Grant, R.O.I. for UCD. | Discussion about why UCD practitioners should consider 'bottom line' arguments to promote our work, and a proposal for calculating R.O.I. that is focused on user success. |
| November 20, 2002 | Jerry Porter and Jeff Lash, Usability Issue Reporting | An interactive discussion about what is the
best way to present the results of a usability review to the client. Materials
available: |
| September 25, 2002 | Kathy Marshak, Using Information Architecture to Organize Content | How to improve online content organization by applying proven information architecture techniques. A joint meeting with the Society of Technical Communication. |
| June 4, 2002 | Eli Blevis, Principles of Design Synthesis for HCI, Illustrated | How principles from the field of design work with customer observation towards better Human-Computer Interaction. |
| March 28. 2002 | Joe Haschart, User-Centered Design | Introduction to to User-Centered Design for a joint meeting with the Society of Technical Communication. |
| January 30, 2002 | Charlotte Schwendeman, Professional Certification; Erin Erker, Testing Anxiety | Charlotte Schwendeman discussed the status of an effort to create certification for usability professionals. Erin Erker discussed an ongoing study at SIU-Edwardsville to determine what factors affect the anxiety of usability testers. |
| November 27, 2001 | Joe Grant, Selling Usability; Jennifer Ruffino, Tour of MasterCard Usability Lab | Joe Grant led a discussion on how to sell usability. Jennifer Ruffino led a tour of the new MasterCard usability lab. |
| September 20, 2001 | Jennifer Ruffino, Topics from UPA 2001 | Jennifer Ruffino presented topics from the recent Usability Professionals Association conference. Topics included web design guidelines,testing wireless applications, and camera-less video capture using Camtasia. |
| March 21, 2001 | Dr. Jerry Weinberg, Dr. Mary Stephens, Ms. Kristin Caufield, Teaching Human-Computer Interaction Using Participatory Methods | Presentation on the course developed to teach HCI at SIU-Edwardsville. Discussion included ethnography techniques for observation and interviews. Also included discussion of the newly constructed HCI lab. |
| January 24, 2001 | Hugh Beyer, Contextual Design: Practical Customer-Centered Design for Real Organizations | Hugh Beyer, one of the industry's leaders in customer-centered design, described Contextual Design--the most complete, practical way of using customer data to drive system design. |
| May 3, 2000 | Jennifer Ruffino, Getting to Know Web Users | Presented facts and figures concerning web users, and discussed how to design pages and site navigation accordingly. |
| March 1, 2000 | Joe Haschart and Joe Grant, Contextual Inquiry | Discussed how Contextual Inquiry and Contextual Design have been applied in actual work settings among the membership. |
| January 12, 2000 | Mike Coble, Prep for St. Louis Metro Usability Test. | Discussed plans for potentially conducting a usability test of the St. Louis Metrolink system. |
| November 3, 1999 | Charlotte Schwendeman, Good & Bad St. Louis Designs / Cathy Gilbert, Matt Johnson, Joe Grant, Cracker Barrel Discussions | Kicked off the first of a series illustrations of good and bad design, including the signs at the airport (bad), access to homes on a particular suburban street (bad), and Izzie at the Olympics (both a "before" version and improved "after" version of the official mascot.) / Our Cracker Barrel discussions gave everyone a chance to talk about several topics: targeted users for a design focus, international issues in interface design, and exploratory vs. formal usability testing.. |
| September 1, 1999 | Mike Coble and Joe Grant, Tour of Tripos User Experience Center | Discussion of how the usability lab / user experience center was constructed, and how this supported Tripos' user-centered development process. |
| July 28, 1999 | Dinner and Planning Meeting | More food and fun, this time at Ozzie's in Westport Plaza. |
| May 5, 1999 | Randy Schilling of Solutech, Inc. presented his company's solution for web business applications. | Presentation not available. |
| March 3, 1999 | Joe Grant, Remote Usability Testing of Web Sites | Presentation and exercise on potential of conduct remote usability tests of web sites using a simple protocol with the telephone. |
| February 3, 1999 | Bill Miller, GUI Design | Presentation and exercises on GUI Design. |
| November 18, 1998 | Dinner and Planning Meeting | Shared some food and conversation. Made plans for 1999 activities. |
| October 7, 1998 | Mike Coble, Janette, Coble, Jennifer Ruffino, and Dr. Catherine Riordan, From Users to Usability | |
| May 6, 1998 | John Harris, Usability Lab Workshop | Attendees participated in a mock usability lab, participating in planning the lab, observing a user working through scenarios, identifying usability issues, and identifying design solutions. |
| March 4, 1998 | Joe Grant, Mike Coble, Janette Coble, Karen Dubrucq, Trisha Greer, Jennifer Ruffino; IntraNet Design Workshop | |
| January 7, 1998 | Matt Johnson, Overcoming Roadblocks to Usability | |
| November 5, 1997 | Joe Grant, Designing for Your Users on the Web | |
| October 1, 1997 | Mike Coble, Software Usability Engineering |