Free Usability Knowledge Sharing Workshop this tomorrow (Wednesday) evening

[MiUPA]

The Michigan UPA invites you to help move the Usability Body of
Knowledge forward at a special, free Internet User Experience 2010
session.

5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., Wednesday July 28, 2010

Morris Lawrence Building, IUE Room 2
4700 East Huron River Drive
Ann Arbor, MI 48105

UPA's Usability Body of Knowledge (BoK) project
Usability Knowledge Sharing Workshop

Led by Carol Smith, UPA Board of Directors and BoK Committee Member

The UPA's Usability Body of Knowledge (BoK) project is the subject of
our evening interactive session. The Body of Knowledge can become a
valuable Web resource for usability and design, but only with your
help!

At this event, you will get the inside story on the UPA's initiative
to create a living reference for the usability profession, and
participate in making it happen. The Usability BoK needs your help to
edit and review existing information topics, create new entries,
contribute your favorite useful links, and help design a usability
reference site for the future. These things are easier and more fun
when we do it together, and we all learn new things at the same time.

The Michigan UPA invites you to help move the Usability BoK forward.
Together, in just a few hours we can make 20-30 really useful topics
available to usability practitioners world-wide! We all benefit. We
provide the space and the food. You provide your good ideas,
experience, and camaraderie. You don't have to be an "expert" in any
particular aspect of usability (although that's good, too!) Bring your
enthusiasm and interests, and we'll work together to make things
happen. Please bring your laptop computer if you have one.

The evening will include an overview of the Usability BoK project, the
topics, and the current web site Identifying what areas you are most
interested in, and what experience you can share.

Small group activities focused on your interests, such as:

• contribute/review valuable web references
• final editing and publishing current "draft" topics
• focus on a single larger topic area, to draft its related sub-topics
• feedback and refining the design for the future Usability BoK web
site

This event is free and open to everyone.