Advance Program
Venue: RA Centre, 2451 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, ON K1H 7X7...
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- All World Usability Day activities will take place in the Clark Hall and Canada rooms in the west wing of the RA Centre.
Usability and Healthcare Showcase, 08:30-12:40 in Clark Hall |
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

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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 in the Canada Room |
12:40 - 13:30 |
Lunch Break - Light refreshments |
Usability Exhibition |
10:30-15:10 in the Canada Room |
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

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Make sure to visit the practitioners exhibits, including:
- 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
- ...and more...
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| 13:30 & 14:30 |
Come “See how it works”. Watch Live Usability Testing, using MORAE from TechSmith. Sessions will be ongoing in the Canada Room. |
| 15:00 - 15:10 |
Concluding Remarks |
More details to come...
All information is subject to change.
For more information, contact Gord Hopkins at ouc-info@ottawausability.org or (613) 836-0660.
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