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World Usability Day 2007

When: Thursday, Nov 8, 2007, 6:00 PM until 9:00 PM
Where:
Ruvane Auditorium at GSK
Five Moore Drive
Durham, NC  
Additional Info:

Contact: Jackson Fox
Phone (919) 423-4798
Email jacksonfox@gmail.com
Category: Community Program

Registration: Required
Payment: Payment In Advance Only
Event Rules:
Cancellation Policy:
Capacity: 0
Available Slots: 0
Registrants & Fees:
RegistrantFee
(5) TriUPA MemberNo Fee
(7) Non-memberNo Fee
 Registrants  

Join UX professionals from around the Triangle area for an Interactionary (a live design competition), keynote speech, food, drink, and fun!

Keynote Speaker:


"Web Leadership through Client Focus: Client Perspectives as Drivers of Innovation and Integration"

Anthony D. Hall, Ph.D.
Senior Technical Staff Member and Manager
Global Web Strategy and Enablement, ibm.com
IBM Corporation

Interactionary


Last year GSK won the professional and all-around competitions, and NC State won the student competition. This year we’re trying something a little different. Mixed teams of students and practitioners will compete head-to-head in a live design competition.

Simply put, the Interactionary is a live team-based design competition. Teams are given a design problem and 10-20 minutes to design a solution to the problem. Teams then present their design to the audience, and the judges.

Teams are free (and encouraged) to interact with the audience in order to perform design research and user testing.

For more information about interactionaries and design sports, please visit:
http://www.scottberkun.com/essays/dsports/

 

2007 Interactionary Teams

 

Team #1:
Beck Tench, Duke University
Alan Underwood, IBM
Becca Green, NCSU
Stacy Lutz, CGI

Team #2:
James Gartrell, Motricity
David Sharek, NCSU
Brian Utesch, IBM
Jeff Calcaterra, IBM

Team #3:
David Millsaps, VisionPoint Marketing
Cindy McCracken
Ric Simmons, Hesketh & UNC Chapel Hill
Sonal Starr, IBM

 

Directions


From Raleigh:

  1. Take I-40 West to the Durham Freeway (147) North.  
  2. Follow the Durham Freeway and take the Alexander Drive exit.
  3. Turn left off the exit and move to the right lane.
  4. Take a right into the GlaxoSmithKline campus at the 2nd stoplight. This is GSK’s main driveway, Moore Drive.
  5. Turn RIGHT onto the 4th driveway (East Loop Rd)
  6. Turn at 2nd RIGHT, onto parking ramp. 
  7. Park and find the stairs at the corner of parking lot.
  8. Walk down the stairs and follow walk way into Ruvane Building.
  9. Meeting Room: Ruvane Building Auditorium.


From Durham:

  1. Take the Durham Freeway (147) South to the Alexander Drive exit, and turn right off the exit (stoplight).
    Follow the Durham Freeway and take the Alexander Drive exit.
  2. Stay in the right turn lane and turn right at the next stoplight onto the GSK’s main driveway, Moore Drive.
  3. Turn RIGHT onto the 4th driveway (East Loop Rd)
  4. Turn at 2nd RIGHT, onto parking ramp. 
  5. Park and find the stairs at the corner of parking lot.
  6. Walk down the stairs and follow walk way into Ruvane Building.
  7. Meeting Room: Ruvane Building Auditorium.