World Usability Day Activities in Ottawa.

In summary...

The World Usability Day 2007 event in Ottawa was another huge success! We would like to thank all the presenters, sponsors, exhibitors, volunteers, and attendees for making this year's event so great! The Ottawa event for 2007 included activities which attracted 25 sponsors, exhibitors and supporters; over 250 attendees from academia, public and industry, including defence and security, e-business, software, life sciences, microelectronics/wireless, telecommunications, and more.

World Usability Day 2007 was hosted by the Ottawa Usability Consortium (OUC), an organization of usability professionals and academics who promote usability through a range of activities throughout the year. To learn more about the OUC or to sign up as a member, please visit www.ottawausability.org or contact ouc-info@ottawausability.org.

World Usability Day is for everyone who's ever asked questions such as “Why doesn’t this work right?” and “What am I supposed to do with this now?” World Usability Day aims to raise awareness and visibility of usability engineering and user-centered design. This year’s theme, "Making life easy!", focuses on accessibility and inclusion.

Presentations

Usability and Healthcare Showcase, 08:30-12:40
Speakers from various types of healthcare-related organizations come together to share their experiences on researching the human factor and designing products, systems and services to meet user needs.
08:30 - 08:50	Coffee and networking
08:50 - 09:00	Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:00 - 09:30	Translating Doctors' Needs Into Products That Save Money and Enhance Patient Benefit Leonard Lee, Canica Design Inc.
09:30 - 10:00	Patient Safety: a systems approach Rachel White, Human Factors Specialist, Healthcare Human Factors Group, University Health Network
10:00 - 10:30	Introducing Human Factors approaches into the operating room Avi Parush, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Carleton University, Human Oriented Technology (HOT) Laboratory
10:30 - 11:00	Break (Morning coffee/tea)
11:00 - 11:30	Usability in Telecare Services Jonathan Segel, Director, Systems Development and Integration Engineering, North American CTO Group – Ottawa, Alcatel-Lucent
11:30 - 12:00	Design and Evaluation in the Context of Healthcare: a Case Study Kirsten Carroll Somoza, UI/Interaction Designer, User Experience Team, Cognos Incorporated
12:00 - 12:30	Taking a User-Centered Design Approach to the Development of a Medication Incident Reporting System Gary Bellamy, Business Analyst, Applications, Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), and Spencer Ross, Program Lead, CMIRPS, Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
12:30 - 12:40	Summary and Closing Remarks
Lunch Break	12:40-13:30
12:40 - 13:30	Lunch Break - Light refreshments
Usability Exhibition, 10:30-15:10
An exhibition by local usability, accessibility, and user experience practitioners working in the private and public sectors plus academia. Meet them, learn from them, and exchange ideas with them.
10:30 - 15:00	Practitioners Exhibits, included: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Gold Sponsor) Atomic Motion (Gold Sponsor) Design Interpretive (Gold Sponsor) Macadamian (Gold Sponsor) Neo Insight (Gold Sponsor) Phase 5 (Gold Sponsor) Information Mapping Canada (Silver Sponsor) Carleton University HOT Lab (Silver Sponsor) CapCHI DriveTraffic Inc. Healthcare Human Factors Group Ottawa Usability Consortium T-Base Communications Web-Insight
13:30 & 14:30	Come “See how it works”. Watch Live Usability Testing, using MORAE from TechSmith.
15:00 - 15:10	Concluding Remarks

Our Gold Sponsors for the World Usability Day 2007 event in Ottawa...

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