Position: Usability Research Technician
Posting #: 012606
Type: Temporary
Duration: 6 Months
Location: Ottawa, ON Canada
Position Summary:
QSI is currently seeking an individual to assist in planning activities that support the organization and evangelize the importance of usability research, providing education to others in IT.
In particular, this role will be focused on the holistic view of IT CSE process optimization [...]

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CapCHI Meeting: CHIStuds & AGM, June 24, 7pm @ TheCodeFactory
Date: Wed. June 24, 2009
Time: 7:00pm
Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa
The next CapCHI meeting will be held Wed. June 24, 7-9pm at TheCodeFactory.
Our last session of the season will begin with our annual general meeting in which we briefly reviewed the activities and finances from this [...]

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Lorraine Chapman on Using Research to Create Software Users Love
Date: Tuesday May 19, 2009
Time: 7:00pm
Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa
See http://www.capchi.org/events
Title:  “Using Research to Create Software Users Love”.
Abstract:
Wonder why so many software products/projects fail? Want to do something to increase your success rate? This presentation focuses on applying appropriate user research to your [...]

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Highlights from the CHI 2009 conference and other conferences.
Date: Tuesday April 21, 2009
Time: 7:00pm
Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa
See http://www.capchi.org/events
Members from the CapCHI community will present their own personal views of recent HCI-related conferences, including highlights, lowlights, trends, observations and photos.
Most notable will be highlights from CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, [...]

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Accessible Interface Design: tips, patterns and concepts to making accessible web applications
Presented by Mark McKay
Date: Tuesday March 17, 2009
Time: 7:00pm
Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa
There are a lot of places where you can learn about the standards but there is almost no information on how best to apply them. This article tries to fill the [...]

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