[Novalug] Reminder: DC ACM Lecture, Monday September 21st, Dr. Jonathan Lazar
DC ACM
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Tue Sep 15 17:21:59 EDT 2009
The Washington DC Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery,
with support from the New America Foundation, is proud to present the
September 2009 lecture.
Dr. Jonathan Lazar, "Current Issues in Human-Computer Interaction and
Public Policy"
Topic:
This talk describes how government policy impacts on the work done in
human-computer interaction, and discusses the current status of policy
initiatives in a number of areas. Topics addressed include voting
machine usability, web accessibility, ergonomic rules, privacy, and
identification systems.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Jonathan Lazar is a professor in the Department of Computer and
Information Sciences at Towson University, where he serves as director
of the undergraduate program in Information Systems and is founder and
director of the Universal Usability Laboratory. Dr. Lazar has authored
over 70 publications on the topics of web usability and accessibility,
assistive technology, CHI and public policy, user error and frustration,
and user-centered design methods. Some of his papers have been published
in the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Interacting
with Computers, Behaviour and Information Technology, Interactions
Magazine, and the Universal Access in the Information Society Journal.
Dr. Lazar is the forum editor for a new column on CHI and Public Policy
that will appear in Interactions Magazine starting in Jan 2010.
His most recent authored book is "Web Usability: A User-Centered Design
Approach", published by Addison-Wesley in 2006 , and his most recent
edited book titled "Universal Usability" was published by John Wiley and
Sons in 2007. He is co-author of a new textbook, "Research Methods in
Human Computer Interaction" that will be published by John Wiley and
Sons in 2010. Dr. Lazar has served on a number of conference program
committees for CHI, ASSETS, and HCII, and he currently serves as chair
of the ACM SIGCHI U.S. Public Policy Committee.
When:
Monday September 21 2009, 7:30pm to 9:00pm
Location:
New America Foundation
1899 L Street NW
Suite 400 (4th Floor)
Washington, DC 20036
Near Farragut North Metro Station.
Parking is available until midnight at a garage on 19th between M and L
streets for $6.00. Free street parking is available starting at 6:30pm.
This lecture is free of charge and open to the public. ACM membership is
not required to attend, nor is an RSVP necessary. Please feel free to
bring friends and colleagues.
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