Sino-European Systems Usability Network 3rd Seminar Trip in China

uiGarden cooperates SESUN project on its thrid seminar trip in Beijing, Dalian and Shanghai, China on 16-23 May.

Sino European Systems Usability Network (SESUN) is an EU funded project developing active and sustainable links between the Chinese and European IT communities, as well as promoting HCI / usability within China and facilitating the design of a new generation of ITC systems for a global community.

The theme of the third seminar tour is UCD practice and case studies.

Dates and Venue
Beijing: 16-17 May

• UCD for managers
• Advanced UCD training

Dalian: 19 May

• UCD training for beginners

Shanghai: 23 May

• Advanced UCD training

Invited speakers:

• Professor Jan Gulliksen, Sweden
• Dr. Jon Rimmer, U.K.
• Nils-Erik Gustafsson, Sweden
• Rachel Jones, U.K.

For more information and to register, please go to the Chinese part of the SESUN website (in Chinese)

World Usability Day in Beijing

uiGarden is organising the WUD event in Beijing on 3 November 2005. The event will demonstrate the usability/accessibility problems of public establishments in the city as well as including suggestions on possible solutions.

As Beijing will be the host city for Olympic Games in 2008, these useful suggestions to improve the usability of public establishments will raise the public awareness of usability in Beijing. We will consider the given problems and suggestions in the first stage and evaluate later with usability experts giving the results on 3 November.

The event will also be broadcasting on local TV stations.

Target audience: usability worker, interaction designer, product designer, city planner, local Olympics committee member, students and publics.

Sponsors: IBM Accessibility Centre

To know more of this event, please go to our event website. (in Chinese)

User Friendly 2005 Conference

uiGarden cooperates with UPA China on their second conference User Friendly 2005 which will be held in Shanghai China at 17-18 December.

User Friendly 2005 is a 2-day usability conference with presentations and 13 workshops covering 3 categories:

• The User Experience
• eCommerce & eServices
• The Business of Usability

For more information, please go to the conference website.

CHCI 2005

The first national HCI conference in China organised by the Chinese Computer Federation, China Society of Image and Graphics, ACM CHI China and Tsinghua University will be held from 26-28 Oct in Kunming, China. uiGarden founder, Christina Li is on the programme committee board. We look forward to seeing you in Kunming!

Click here for more information about this conference (in Chinese)