There will be two collabroative Human Factores-related seminars at this year's conference:
Human Factors and Medical Design - Thursday, August 25th @ 2PM
This presentation will show you three new exploratory methods that are being used in a medical context that have the potential to apply in a variety of circumstances. Medical and user research design experts will show you how they used "standard patients," games to identify unmet needs and operating room simulation to understand the real desires that may not be identified through typical interviews or observations.
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Human Factors and Interactive Design - Friday, August 26th @ 330PM
So, what are blogs or RSS feeds? Why should you know what they are? Because user researchers and designers can use blogs to gain amazing insights into people's lives. There are tens of thousands of blogs on the Internet today, and blog content varies dramatically, but few are used by user researchers and designers to better do their work. An introduction of the new Human Factors Section Web site that uses a blogging format and discusses how blogs can be used to disseminate information as well as to gather it will also be included.
