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Bentley University

Bentley University
UX Certificate Offerings

Bentley University UX Certificate

Spring 2010 Schedule

IN900C.001 Human Factors and the User Experience Bill Gribbons February 25 and 26, 2010 Web Offering

IN960C.001 User Experience Boot Camp Bill Gribbons; Bill Hartman; Meena Kothandaraman, Greg Almquist March 8 to 12, 2010

IN922C.001 Usability Testing James McElroy March 18 and 19, 2010

IN919C.001 Information Architecture Greg Almquist March 25 and 26, 2010 Web Offering

IN924C.001 New Insights through Technology and Social Media Colin Hynes April 8 and 9, 2010

IN928C.001 Visualizing Information Bill Gribbons May 13 and 14, 2010 Web Offering

IN935C.001 Designing the User Experience Bill Hartman June 3 and 4, 2010

IN939C.001 User Interface Design for Mobile Devices Kay Corry Aubrey June 10 and 11, 2010

For all web offerings, students can participate online OR in the classroom.

Please contact Gail Wessell, gwessell@bentley.edu for more information or to register.

See the UX Certificate site for details.


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February Meeting: Note location



From eBooks to Learning Books

Dr. Boris Goldowsky &
Lisa Spitz

Center for Applied Special Technology

Tuesday, February 9, 2010 - 6:30 PM
Microsoft New England
Research & Development Center
One Memorial Drive, Cambridge

Please RSVP to nancy@nanmann.com if you plan to attend

Abstract:

This talk will cover the basics of Universal Design for Learning and show how applying principles of UDL to the design of electronic books can transform plain text documents into learning tools. We will show a examples from CAST’s digital learning environments and compare to current trends in eBook interface design.

Bio:

Boris Goldowsky is responsible for CAST's technology strategy and manages the organization’s system architecture, the design of modules and prototypes, and conducts ongoing research and development in next generation technologies. . He is also CAST’s representative to the standards-setting working group for the DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System) digital talking book standard and a member of the NIMAS (National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard) Standards Board.

Lisa Spitz, Director of Design, is responsible for planning and supervising the design of CAST’s universally designed learning environments, public facing websites, and organizational print collateral. With expertise in human-centered design principles and methodologies, she is passionate about enriching CAST led research prototypes through design-based research, a process through which iterative design cycles and interaction with students and teachers informs final design solutions. Lisa Spitz holds a B.A. in Psychology and Graphic Arts from Regis College, and a M.Des. in Interaction Design from Carnegie Mellon University.


Evening Schedule:
6:30-7 Networking & Socializing over Tea, Coffee, Drinks, Food; Joining BostonCHI
7-8:30 Meeting
8:30-9 Dessert! ... And more Networking & Socializing



BostonCHI 2009-2010 Calendar
Tues 8 Sept 2009
Regular Meeting
Dr. Ryan Baker, WPI
Tues 13 Oct 2009 Regular Meeting
Lisa Gualtieri
Social Media Strategies
Lisa's Powerpoint Slides
Tues 10 Nov 2009 Regular Meeting
Ben Shneiderman
Understanding Social Media, Accelerating Social Participation

Ben's Powerpoint Slides
Tues 8 Dec 2009 Regular Meeting
Steve Krug
Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems
Tues 12 Jan 2010 Regular Meeting
Michael Sullivan
The Psychology of Technology - One Teacher’s Perspective?

Location: Sun Microsystems
Tues 9 Feb 2010 Regular Meeting
Dr. Boris Goldowsky & Lisa Spitz
Disability Access

Location: Microsoft New England Research and Development Center,
Tues 9 Mar 2010 Regular Meeting
Jack Beaton
Indian Culture and Mobile Usability Research

Location: Google, Cambridge MA 
Tues 13 April 2010 Regular Meeting
Candy Sidner
Engagement and Deixis: Learning from People and Applying to Humanoid Robots
Wed 12 May 2010 Regular Meeting
Dr. Martin Wattenberg and Dr. Fernanda Viegas
Location: Harvard University
Tues 8 June 2010 Regular Meeting
TBA
No Meetings in July or August


BostonCHI is the New England area chapter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

BostonCHI meets ten times a year on the second Tuesday of the month except in July and August.


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