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All change at the top for System Concepts
Source: System Concepts Ltd, 3 July 2009
Leslie FountainLeslie Fountain has been promoted to joint Managing Director of leading usability consultancy System Concepts.
Life in UCD immortalised in fiction: you couldn't make it up
Source: UN, 2 July 2009
Sarah Herman's fictitious book on life in a user-centred design company has hit the shelves and The Guardian's book pages...
Interfaces Magazine - Issue 79: The Education Issue
Source: Interaction Group, 1 July 2009
interactionThe latest issue of Interfaces is now available as a free download from the Interaction Website.
Two new Behavioural research Tools from Noldus
Source: UN, 30 June 2009
Tool updates make on-site behavioural data collection easier.
Cell Phones that Listen and Learn
Source: MIT Technology Review, 29 June 2009
New software tracks a user's behavior by monitoring everyday sounds.

Jobs

PhD studentship: Multimodal HCI - Glasgow
Deadline: 6 July 2009
 
A fully-funded 3.5 year PhD studentship is available in the area of multimodal interaction and home care systems on the EPSRC-funded “MMH: Multimodal Reminders in the Home” project.

Digital Inclusion Researcher - Barnsley, Yorkshire UK
Deadline: 9 July 2009
 
To research effective strategies for digital inclusion in South Yorkshire. To work with four council teams to evaluate and improve on existing engagement projects and develop case studies that encourage new forms of engagement.

Freelance User Experience Consultant - Bristol
Deadline: 10 July 2009
 
My Bristol based client is looking to hire a freelance User Experience consultant.


Events

Writing for the web training - London
Date: 6 July 2009
 
One day hands-on classroom-based writing for the web training course. Learn to write and maintain effective online content for your website.

Web usability training - London
Date: 7 July 2009
 
One day hands-on classroom-based web usability training course. Learn all about web usability from the best in the business.

Usability testing training - London
Date: 8 July 2009
 
One day hands-on classroom-based usability testing training course. Learn how to plan, run and analyse your own usability testing sessions.


Paper Calls

CfP: Physicality 2009 Int. Workshop - Extended Deadline
Deadline: 17 July 2009
 
This third International Workshop in the Physicality Series will explore various aspects of physicality, including "towards a less-GUI interface” as a theme, so interaction designers and product designers can produce better design.

CfP: SIGGRAPH ASIA 2009
Deadline: 17 August 2009
 
SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 encourages artists, educators, engineers, filmmakers, innovators producers, researchers, and scientists throughout the world to submit their work for presentation in Yokohama, 16-19 December 2009.

CfP: Measurement and Structural Models of User Experience
Deadline: 1 September 2009
 
Two kinds of submission for this Special Issue are encouraged: Empirical and theoretical papers dealing with the measurement of user experience; and empirical and theoretical papers dealing with the structural modelling of user experience

 
 

 

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