We will be kicking off the term with a Sushi Social! Come meet the Human Factors community while enjoying some delicious all-you-can-eat sushi.
Location: Sushi 99
The University of Waterloo Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Student Chapter is preparing to host the second Professor Lecture Series event of the Term on Thursday, February 25th from 16:00 - 17:00 (EST) titled: "You, Me and the Technology" - A Professor Lecture Series.
Our speaker is Dr. Shi Cao, a Systems Design Engineering Professor from the Human Optimization Modelling Lab (HOMLab). He is also our Faculty Advisor at the UWaterloo HFES Student Chapter.
Dr. Catherine Burns will be giving a talk titled "Human Factors in the World of the Internet of Things" at the Psychology Cognitive Seminar in the Department of Psychology on January 29, 2015.
Join me to see how design is playing a bigger role in business. I’ll cover the following topics.
-What is UX
-What is the BIG business problem
-How design thinking is addressing this problem
Dr. Edward Tse (Project Research Leader at SMART Technologies) will be giving a talk on “Applied Research and SMART Technologies” February 5, 2015 at the Games Institute space (EC1). Anyone interested is welcome.
Adam Fourney, a PhD candidate from the Human Computer Interaction Lab (David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science) will be giving a talk this Friday February 13th, 2015.
We will be going skiing this Friday after 5:30pm at Chicopee (Kitchener). Contact Dev Minotra (dminotra at uwaterloo dot ca) for more information.
Guerrilla Usability Testing is an informal usability test that can be used to quickly gather feedback about your product at every stage of the development and design process.
Researcher, technologist, and entrepreneur Wayne Zachary will present a webinar entitled "Introduction to Qualitative Methods for Human Factors Analyses" on Tuesday, March 10, 2015, from 12:00–1:30 a.m.