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SUMMARY:The Role of Initial Experience in the Design of Inclusive User Int
 erfaces - Patrick K. A. Wollner and Tanya Goldhaber (University of Cambrid
 ge)
DTSTART:20130130T130000Z
DTEND:20130130T140000Z
UID:TALK40565@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Eiko Yoneki
DESCRIPTION:The field of Inclusive Design focuses on creating products and
  services that are usable by as many people as possible\, in other words\,
  excluding the fewest users through better design for everyone. Many inter
 faces are conceived with the end user experience in mind\, but a user’s 
 initial experience with a piece of technology can have a disproportionate 
 affect on their motivation and ability to learn. Our research investigates
  the motivational components and modelling of initial user experience and 
 their implications on UI design illustrated through a recent case study.\n
 \nBiographies:\n\nPatrick Wollner is a PhD Student at the University of Ca
 mbridge's Engineering Design Centre researching design processes and metho
 dologies for the development of mobile touchscreen devices. His work focus
 es on bottlenecks in the operation of these devices with an emphasis on se
 tup procedures. Patrick aims to refine cognitive modeling tools to evaluat
 e UIs through adoptions to the methods that describe UIs to cognitive arch
 itectures. After validating the proposed framework modifications through c
 omparative user testing\, this method of implicit modeling will build the 
 foundation of multiple evaluation techniques that aid the inclusive design
  process of mobile touchscreen interfaces. Patrick previously worked in th
 e field of computer vision and holds a BA and MEng from the University of 
 Cambridge in Engineering. He also works as a columnist for the Austrian da
 ily newspaper Kurier reporting on emerging consumer technologies.\n\nTanya
  Goldhaber graduated from MIT in 2010 with a BS in Mechanical Engineering 
 and minors in Brain and Cognitive Science and Music. Her primary academic 
 concentration was in controls\, but through her study of psychology and ex
 perience doing UI design with British Telecom (BT)\, she eventually became
  most interested in engineering design. At MIT she pursued her interest in
  Cognitive Science through undergraduate research at the Kanwisher Lab stu
 dying the neural basis of conceptual representations. Tanya is the recipie
 nt of both a 2010 Marshall Scholarship and the Cambridge International Sch
 olarship (CISS) and is currently a PhD student in the Engineering Design C
 entre studying intrinsically motivating factors of User Interface (UI) des
 ign. Outside of lab she is member of Pembroke College\, a violinist with t
 he Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra\, and competes with the Cambridg
 e University Dancesport Team.\n
LOCATION:LT2\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Builiding
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