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UPA-Boston Eighth Annual User Experience Conference

Tuesday, May 26, 2009 from 8:30 AM to 7:00 PM (ET)

Waltham, MA

UPA-Boston Eighth Annual User Experience Conference

Ticket Information

Ticket Type Remaining Sales End Price Fee Quantity
1-5 Tickets   more info 19 tickets Ended $165.00 $4.12
6 or more Tickets   more info 19 tickets Ended $143.00 $3.58
Full-time Students or Currently Unemployed   more info 19 tickets Ended $65.00 $1.62

Event Details

Join us on Tuesday, May 26th for the eighth annual Boston Mini UPA conference at Bentley University in Waltham, MA. Hear and discuss critical topics in usability and user-centered design with practitioners, students, and experts in the field. Whether a newcomer, a seasoned usability professional, or member of a product team interested in usability, this conference offers unique content and one-of-a-kind learning opportunities.

We expect more than 400 industry professionals to attend and we will close registration when full. Sign up today! This is the place to be for learning about best practices for user-centered product development, usability research, and real-world case studies from website, mobile device, software, healthcare, globalization and other fields!

More Sessions! More Speakers!

This year we've upgraded the event with more speakers and a greater diversity of session topics. The conference will have four simultaneous tracks giving you a choice of over 30 presentations. Topics are relevant to thought-leaders, designers, developers, usability professionals, usability novices, and others. There's something for everyone! Explore the current schedule of events.

Time Executive Dining Room Danielson Room Room 325ABC Room 305AB
8:00-9:00 Registration and Breakfast
9:00-9:15 Welcome (Executive Dining Room)
9:15-10:00

Building Robust Personas in 30 Days or Less

Jared Spool

Usability Labs from $50 to $50,000

Rich Buttiglieri

We had dreams of traveling the world. The farthest we got was Michigan in the dead of winter. We failed. Here's our story.

Nirali Patel, Lily Kenney

Designing Software: Features for User Adoption

Will Schroeder

10:15-11:00

How Research Informs Medical Device Design

Beth Loring

Diving into Social Media: A Working Case Study

Manya Kapikian

Getting started with Agile AND staying user-centered

Diana Brown

Usability in Project Management

Sarah Cortes

11:15-12:00

UX Content Workshop

Mary James, Chauncey Wilson

Understanding Interaction Design

David Rondeau

TBD

Tips from Two Tweeps: How User Experience Pros Find Value on Twitter

Joshua Ledwell, Eva Kaniasty

12:00-1:00 Lunch (Executive Dining Room)
1:00-1:45

Mobile Interface Design

Greg Raiz

Design Negotiation

Shannon McHarg

Better Living Through UCD: How organizations can use UCD principles to improve the lives of their people and ultimately their business

Jamison Roof

4 Things I Learned from A Book About Architecture School

Aye Moah

2:00-2:45

Rating Scales: What the Research Says

Joe Dumas, Tom Tullis

The Implications of User Engagement with Universal Search Results

Dan Berlin

Connecting with Developers to Expand UX Influence

Natasha Lloyd

Tasks Employed in User Evaluation of Military Goggles

Karla Allan

3:00-3:45

Highlights from Persuasive Technology 2009

Carolyn Snyder

Best Practices for Guided Selling Online: Independent Study Results

Michael Hawley

Agile Design and Prototyping with Clickframes

Jonathan Abbett, William Crawford

Concept Hygiene: Ethnography in User Research

Zarla Ludin, Martha Kam

4:00-4:45

"Rolling Your Own" Online Usability Study

Tom Tullis

Improving Healthcare Experiences: Creating the Design Standards that will Deliver a Groundswell

Amy Cueva

So you want to write a book?

Mary James

World Usability Day

Elizabeth Rosenzweig

5:00-5:45

Sketching the UI: Generative Design Techniques for Evolving Concepts

Sarah Bloomer

I'm here, are you? The importance of presence in presentation

Traci Lepore

Folksonomies: What they are and how they can help your business

Mike Ryan

Exploring Mobile Usability Testing Methods for Enterprise Users: A Case Study

Minmin Yang, Judy Keeley

6:00-7:00 Cocktail Hour (Executive Dining Room)

More Sponsors!

This year the event will have even more sponsors giving attendees the opportunity to network and discover companies that are hiring, meet local design and usability organizations, and try out new technologies and products.

Financial Hardship

If you are a potential attendee of the conference and would incur financial hardship paying the registration fee, there are several options we may suggest. Volunteers and primary presenters have their registration fees waived so we invite you to sign up as a volunteer and/or submit a proposal. (We expect there will be 8-10 volunteer positions available.) If neither of these options is possible, email Chris Hass and we’ll see what accommodations can be made. All inquiries will be handled with discretion.

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When & Where



Bentley Conference Center
Bentley University, 175 Forest St
LaCava Building, 3rd floor
Waltham, MA 02452

Tuesday, May 26, 2009 from 8:30 AM to 7:00 PM (ET)


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