Activities of the Usability and User Experience Community
2000 Conference - Orlando, Florida

Usability Session Descriptions

MG 5D - Moving to Usability and Design - Moderator, Susan M. Jensen
This panel brings together technical commnicators and managers who have made usability and design their primary career focus. Hear their stories about the transitions, and learn what skills you need to make a similar move. Panelists include Ed See, Janice (Ginny) Redish, Whitney Quesenbery and Mike Bates.

TR 50 A Usability Toolkit: What You Need to Know to Do Usability Testing - Carol Barnum
Get answers to questions about usability and usability testing, learn what to test, when to test, and how to test. Receive a toolkit of forms to get you started (even without a budget). Intended audience: people who haven't done usability testing yet but want
to learn how.

TR 8W - 99-Second Tips on Usability - Moderator, Dick Miller, Hewlett-Packard
A lively, interactive panel discussion in which each of a series of presenters (and session attendees) has just ninety-nine seconds to present a usability tip, experience, or perspective. This is the first time this format has been tried at the STC  conference, but it is based on one used successfully at another professional society's international conference for a number of years. Please attend. learn, enjoy, and participate. The format is this: speakers (both advance volunteers and those in the audience who are inspired) are asked to share a tip, hint, war story, idea, principle, etc. from the realm of Usability, and to do so in 99 seconds or less. At the end of that time (usually marked by some kind of rude audio signal), the speaker must stop, in mid-sentence if need be. This makes for a very fast-paced, informative, enjoyable session that attendees have rated highly over the years.

Usability Progression: Becoming the Renaissance Professional
Karen Bachman, Moderator

• Examining the Influence of Professional Opinions in Usability
  Bogo Vatovec, Icon MediaLab
• Checklist for Web Site Evaluations
  Dick Miller, Hewlett-Packard
• Beyond Usability Testing: How Else Should Technical Communicators Get Involved in Usability
  Janice Redish, Redish & Associates
• Selecting Participants Who Accurately Represent Your Target Audience
  Deborah Hinderer, Compuware
• How Usability Supports Quality
  David Dick, SWIFT
• Implementing a New Usability Process
  Whitney Quesenbery, Cognetics Corporation
• Usable Agents
  Robert Krull, RPI

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