Peter Brawn

Dr Peter Brawn has a PhD in Visual Attention and led the introduction of the first commercial eyetracking service in Australia. His website may be found at www.eyetracker.com.au. As a practicing usability practitioner he has integrated eyetracking into studies covering both digital and advertising media, and is supported by a network of independent professionals in UX Research www.uxresearch.com.au

Challenges for Usability in Agile Development - John Eklund

Agile methods of development prescribe rapid prototyping and minimal documentation, and are particularly suitable for creating web interfaces for businesses, encouraging throw-away prototypes and allowing designers the freedom to be more creative. This session discusses ways that project managers can meet the challenges of rapid development with user centred methods that will assure the usability of their systems and ultimately customer satisfaction. The talk will focus on practical methods in a step-by-step guide covering the place of usability in a project lifecycle, how it is implemented and executed and what to expect in usability from an external supplier.

John Eklund

John Eklund has a doctorate in Education from The University of Sydney in the area of interface design of instructional systems. He has conducted a multitude of usability studies for a wide range of government and corporate clients, and has over 50 publications in refereed journals and conference proceedings. John was formerly a university lecturer and head of the usability division at a software testing company for over 8 years. He is the founder and senior analyst of UX Research (http://www.uxresearch.com.au), a company dedicated to providing user centred design services.

Canberra
Friday 23 May, 2008, 2.00 pm - 4.50 pm.

Sydney
Wednesday 4 June, 2008. 2.00 pm - 5.00 pm

Brisbane
Thursday June 12, 2008. 2.00 pm - 5.00 pm

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Details:

What: Sydney Web Standards Group meeting

When: Friday 16 May

Time: 6.30pm for 7pm start

Where: Australian Museum 6 College Street Sydney

Cost: Drinks and nibbles - Free!

RSVP: http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=153

Sponsor: Proudly sponsored by the W3C Australia

Richard Ishida - “Introduction to internationalisation”

Richard joined the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) in July 2002 to to help expand the work of the Internationalisation Activity, particularly in the area of guidelines, education and outreach. He is attached to ERCIM in the south of France (Sophia Antipolis), but based in the UK. His role at the W3C is to help make the World Wide Web worldwide!

Richard is the Internationalization Activity Lead, and staff contact for the Internationalization Core Working Group. He also participates in the ITS (Internationalized Tag Set) Working Group. He is on the advisory committee and review board of the Internationalization & Unicode Conference.

More: http://rishida.net/

José Manuel Alonso - “How to make the most out of eGovernment”

José is currently the eGovernment Lead at W3C. Prior to joining W3C, José was the Manager for the W3C Spain Office for three years and also served as the Advisory Committee Representative for CTIC (host of the Spain Office).

José has broad experience in project management, software integration, customer relationship, PR and IT consultancy. He received Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Masters degree in Enterprise Application Integration, both from the University of Oviedo, where he also worked at its Research and Innovation departments as a researcher, developer and lecturer. He also worked previously as consultant and even founded his own Web company back in 1997.

More: http://www.w3.org/People/Josema/

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