[Novalug] Reminder: DC ACM Lecture, Monday September 21st, Dr. Jonathan Lazar

DC ACM winter@frostmarch.com
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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