Usability Chapter Newsletter for July

1. CONNECTICUT CHAPTER OF USABILITY PROFESSIONALS
JULY 26, 2009
www.ctupa.org
NEWSLETTER
Our July Meeting
Eyetracking Trends & Technology Impacts
addressing a number of applications
from psychology, to usability, to
marketing. A. Mark Mento has been Eyetracking
with the company for 10 years and is study heat map.
the director of the US office, based in
Boston, MA.
Speaker: A. Mark Mento from SMI
Our next Chapter meeting will be
held Wednesday evening, July 29th
at Open Solutions in Glastonbury, CT.
This is a discussion of the latest in eye
tracking technology, with an emphasis
on how this tool has evolved over
time, and how it adds value to usability
studies and research.
Examples include static websites,
dynamic applications, and real-world
environments. Users gaze pattern is
SMI has 20 years of tracked.
experience in the eye tracking domain,
with a diverse portfolio of products
http://www.ctupa.org
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2. CONNECTICUT CHAPTER OF USABILITY PROFESSIONALS
JULY 26, 2009
July Meeting location:
Open Solutions, 455 Winding Brook Drive, Glastonbury, CT.
As is our custom, light refreshments will be available at 6:30, and
informal networking will ensue until the meeting commences at 7:00.
http://www.opensolutions.com
June Chapter Meeting
Thank you to TopCoder for a terrific
interactive chapter meeting. In addition to
sharing how TopCoder Studio works as a
competitive design environment - there were
very spirited discussions about the value of
collaborative design & process.
Checkout the site - and the competitions.
It’s an exciting opportunity for designers &
managers of design alike.
http://studio.topcoder.com/
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