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SUMMARY:Label placement in forms (and other time-consuming controversies) 
 - Caroline Jarrett
DTSTART:20090519T174500Z
DTEND:20090519T190000Z
UID:TALK18194@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Michele Ide-Smith
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to announce Caroline Jarrett as our next spea
 ker. Caroline is a world expert in Form Design. In this talk\, Caroline wi
 ll use eye-tracking data\, and her many years experience of designing and 
 testing forms\, to give you ideas of where to put labels on forms and get 
 us thinking about form details such as required field indicators and colon
 s on labels.\n\nCaroline Jarrett started to work with forms when deliverin
 g Optical Character Recognition systems to the then Inland Revenue. The sy
 stems didn't work very well\, and it turned out that the problems arose be
 cause people made mistakes when filling in forms. She developed a fascinat
 ion with the challenge of making forms easy to fill in\, a fascination tha
 t shows no signs of wearing off over 15 years later. During this time Caro
 line has worked with the Open University\, Cancer Research UK\, the Minist
 ry of Justice (HM Courts Service)\, the Financial Services Authority\, the
  University of Glasgow and the University of Cambridge.\n\nCaroline is Co-
 author of "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability":http://www.
 amazon.co.uk/Forms-that-Work-Interactive-Technologies/dp/1558607102/ref=sr
 _1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240567313&sr=8-1 the companion volume to Ginny R
 edish's hugely popular book "Letting go of the words: Writing web content 
 that works":http://www.amazon.co.uk/Letting-Go-Words-Interactive-Technolog
 ies/dp/0123694868/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240567395&sr=1-1\n\n\n*D
 ate:* Tuesday 19th May Time: 18.30 for 18.45 to 20.00\n\n*Venue:* Microsof
 t Research\, Cambridge ( "Map & address":http://research.microsoft.com/en-
 us/labs/cambridge/visit.aspx ).\n\n*Registration:* The event is FREE and y
 ou do not need to be a UK UPA member to attend. There is no registration b
 ut in the unlikely event that we fill 120 seats\, they will be allocated o
 n a first come first served basis.\n\nIf for any reason we have to cancel 
 the event we will post this information on the "Cambridge Usability Group"
 :http://www.ukupa.org.uk/cambridge/ website in advance (we have not cancel
 led one yet though).
LOCATION:Microsoft Research Ltd\, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road
 )\, Cambridge
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