Posted: April 14th, 2011 | Author: Robert Barlow-Busch | Filed under: General | Tags: balance, call for participation, cfp, life, mobile, research, work | No Comments »
Some of you may remember Sam Ladner’s presentation to UX Waterloo back in February, in which she mentioned a research project on mobile technology. Sam’s delighted to announce that she’s starting the recruitment phase of this project. More from Sam below.
Call for Participation in Research on Work/Life Balance and Mobile Technology
Are you a smartphone user? Do you want to know more about how this device is affecting our lives? We want to talk to you!
Ryerson University is seeking to recruit smartphone users to participate in a social research study on mobile technology. Hosted at the Ted Rogers School of Management, this project asks the simple question: what happens when workplace technologies like the BlackBerry come into the household? The research team is looking to recruit people who have used a smartphone for work and personal use for the last six months, preferably in the Greater Toronto Area.
The research will be publicly available. We will be sharing white papers and conference presentations with the community at large. Those interested in mobile technology will learn more about how individuals use their phones at home, the kinds of content they typically use, and what frustrates them about current software and hardware design.
All participants will remain completely anonymous.
Participants will be visited at home by a researcher, who will conduct an interview and will spend time visiting and observing the participant’s home experience with their smartphone. All participation is strictly confidential.
Recruitment will begin in April, with field work happening throughout the spring and summer. Participants from across the country will be considered, but those in Southern Ontario are preferred. The project is being lead by Dr. Sam Ladner, postdoctoral research fellow, and co-principal investigators Dr. Catherine Middleton and Dr. Ozgur Oturetken.
Learn more at mobileworklife.ca and on Twitter @mobileworklife.
Posted: January 27th, 2011 | Author: Mark Connolly | Filed under: General | No Comments »
uxgroup.wordpress.com has been home to uxWaterloo for many years. We’ve recently graduated, so to speak, to our own domain, uxwaterloo.org. This is the last post that you’ll see at the old WordPress site, and it’s really here for the benefit or those who have subscribed to our old WordPress RSS feed, since everyone else gets automatically redirected to the new site. Please take a moment to head over to the new site and resubscribe there (or here,as the case may be!).
Update: Our new RSS feed can be found here.
Posted: June 23rd, 2009 | Author: Robert Barlow-Busch | Filed under: General | No Comments »
This week, the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) is asking its members to chip in with a small donation to the organization. Well, that’s us folks! Please take a moment to learn about the goal of this fundraiser and then, most importantly, to make a small contribution. Through the support and generosity of IxDA (and of course Communitech, our local sponsor), the UX Group has grown from an initial experiment two years ago to a community of over 200 people — at absolutely no cost to our members.
Contributions are needed to upgrade IxDA’s technology infrastructure
This blog post by the IxDA board explains the goal of this fundraiser in detail. Here’s an overview:
For the price of a cup of coffee you can help IxDA deliver our next-generation platform to serve the needs of the interaction design community. We can’t do it without your help.
Since its inception as a mailing list in 2003, IxDA now supports over 10,000 discussion list subscribers, 80 IxDA Local Groups from around the world, an annual conference (with a regional conference on the way in South America), several budding community initiatives and over 12,000 people affiliated via LinkedIn. Despite our ambitions, our current technology infrastructure is no longer able to support our needs, nor expand to meet our future ones.
Please chip in! Visit IxDA’s website to make your contribution. It takes only a few minutes.
Posted: August 28th, 2007 | Author: Robert Barlow-Busch | Filed under: Events, General | No Comments »
Have any specific topics you’d like covered at one of our events? Know anyone you’d like to see make a presentation? Interested in presenting something yourself?
We’d love to know your thoughts on this. Feel free to leave a comment on this blog posting so everyone else can chime in with their responses too. Or, if you prefer a more private channel, fire an email to our coordinators Robert and Navid.
Posted: August 28th, 2007 | Author: Robert Barlow-Busch | Filed under: General | No Comments »
It’s official, folks! We’re now affiliated with both IxDA and Communitech, have over 50 people on our mailing list from last spring’s events, and are looking forward to a season of monthly events beginning in September.
Our regular meeting time will be on the third Thursday of each month, from 5:00 to 6:30. Meetings will typically be at the Accelerator Centre. However, these details may occasionally need to change, so be sure to check this site for details about each month’s events.
All this plus more on our About page.