[edtech] [Fwd: IAP Activity--Why Usability]

[Jean Foster]

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From: Susan B. Jones <sbjones at MIT.EDU>
To: usability-announce at mit.edu
Cc: jlreed at mit.edu
Subject: IAP Activity--Why Usability
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 09:28:32 -0500

Please, pass this along to others who might be interested.


Please, join the Usability Team for the following IAP events starting on
Wednesday, January 5 at 1:30 in 3-133.

 "Why Usability?" is a four-week series of presentations addressing the
issue of why (or why not) making things usable and accessible is
important in our work lives, our everyday lives, and our political
lives.
 
User Interface and Elections - Examples from the 2004 Election
Prof. Ted Selker, MIT Media Lab Co-Director CalTech/MIT Voting
Technology Project
 Join us for a lively discussion of how user interface technology played
a part in the recent Presidential election. Topics include detecting
fraud, ensuring security, reliability, and integrity, and problems of
the disenfranchised.
Wed Jan 5, 01:30-03:00pm, 3-133
 
Web Accessibility for All
Stephanie Norton and Rich Caloggero, ATIC Lab
 Learn to make Web sites more accessible to people with disabilities,
more usable overall and more usable by older people. We'll discuss
operating system accessibility tools, assistive technologies, and common
problems of older web users. Learn how well your site works with a
screen reader. Please, bring questions.
Wed Jan 12, 01:30-03:00pm, 3-133
 
Hard to Use Technology for the Aging and the Rest of Us
Joe Coughlin, Director, Age Lab/Director New England UTC
Wed Jan 19, 01:30-03:00pm, 3-133, 3-133
 
Don't Make Me Think
Steve Krug Author of "Don't Make Me Think"
Wed Jan 26, 01:30-03:00pm, 3-133



-- 
Susan B. Jones
Senior Usability Consultant

Information Systems & Technology (IS&T)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
N42-240L
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139 -4307
617-253-0877
-- 
Jean Foster <jfoster at mit.edu>