for the Five College User Experience Committee
Title of event: Designing for Digital online conference
Date: 4/3/2017- 4/5/2017
Location: All Five Colleges
Description:
Group registration for the 2017 Designing for Digital online conference component entitled us to live streaming for over 20 sessions, including several workshops and many periods with 2 simultaneous viewing channels. The conference focused on five themes related to user experience and user-centered design:
Title: UX and LibGuides: Investigating Student Needs and Behaviors
Date: 11/10/2016
Location: Du Bois Library, Room 2601, UMass Libraries at UMass Amherst
Description:
The User Experience (UX) Committee invited Kris Markman, head of Harvard’s Digital Learning & User Experience (DLUX) department, to speak at an event for the Five College community. Markman gave an extended presentation based on a recent talk given at Computers in Libraries (2016), “Reimagining Harvard’s LibGuides,” and presented the results of an eye-tracking exercise based on some existing guides from the Five College libraries, provided by the FCUX.
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Date: 05/05/2015
Location: Du Bois Library, Room 2601, UMass Libraries at UMass Amherst
Description:
The User Experience Committee hosted an event: User Experience and Libraries: A Shared Introduction, for Five College’s library staff. We started with light refreshments, before a brief introduction to User Experience concepts and methods given by Sika Berger.
Participants chose between two break-out sessions, showing talks from the recent Designing for Digital Conference in Austin, Texas.
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