Cognitive Crash Dummies: Where we are and where we're going April 23, 2009

NEOUPA - Northeast Ohio Usability Professionals' Association

Crash dummies in the auto industry save lives by testing the physical safety of automobiles before they are brought to market. "Cognitive crash dummies" save time, money, and potentially even lives, by allowing computer-based system designers to test their design ideas before implementing those ideas in products and processes. In this talk, Dr. Bonnie John will review the uses of cognitive models in system design and the current state of research and practice. She will also present some exciting new tools and research directions that promise to make predictive human performance modeling even more useful.

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Presenter Bio

Dr. Bonnie E. John, a psychologist (PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, 1988) and engineer (BEng, The Cooper Union, 1977; MS, Stanford, 1978), has more than 25 years experience in usability analysis and design. She is a full time professor at CMU and directed the Masters Program in Human-Computer Interaction for a dozen years. She researches both human performance modeling and software engineering and consults regularly in government and industry. Dr. John had been doing research in Human Performance Modeling for 25 years and has published over 100 papers on the topic. She is an ACM CHI Academy member, recognized for her contributions to HCI through her work in cognitive modeling and the implications of usability concerns on the design of software architecture.

Meeting Time: 6:00-8:30pm

* 6:00-6:30pm- Food & socializing
* 6:30-6:45pm - NEOUPA business
* 6:45-8:30pm - Informal presentation with Q & A

Meeting cost

* Free Events for NEOUPA members
* $10 for non-members

Directions

Metrics Marketing Group
905 Corporate Way, Suite 250
Westlake, OH 44145

Metrics Marketing is located off Detroit Rd. between Clague and Columbia off I-90.

* If coming from the East/Downtown, take I-90W towards Toledo to exit 160 for Clague Road (Westlake/Clague Rd). Turn left off the exit onto Clague.
* Turn right at Detroit Rd/OH-254.
* Turn right at Westpoint Pkwy, where Metrics Marketing is located at the first building on your right.
* Park on Corporate Way, which will be the forth driveway on your right and enter at the main entrance.
o Parking is free.

Mapquest directions are located at:
http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Westlake&state=OH&address=905+Corporate+Way&zipcode=44145

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