[Webpub] IAP Activity--Why Usability

[Susan B. Jones]

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




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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