User Experience Designers Peer 2 Peer Group 

This P2P group is for those interested in improving the User Experience with products or services (open to non-member and members of the Communitech Network or IxDA)

RSVP for the upcoming session by clicking on the Register Now link below.

Topic:  Next Generation Tabletop Interfaces
Speaker: Dr. Stacey Scott, Assistant Professor of Human Systems Engineering, Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo

Go to UX blog to view parady that so hilariously illustrates "One day, your computer will be a big-ass table.”  We have yet to see tabletop interfaces in every home. We’re at least a few years away from finding them in Best Buy or Future Shop. However, specialized markets for these devices are indeed emerging — and new applications are on the horizon. This month, Stacey Scott will overview some of the digital tabletop research being conducted in the Collaborative Systems Laboratory at the University of Waterloo. She’ll focus on two specific application areas: military command and control operations, and digital board gaming.

Even before Microsoft announced the Surface system in 2007, the Human-Computer Interaction community was actively researching digital tabletop technologies since Pierre Wellner proposed the DigitalDesk in 1991. Yet only recently have hardware and software advances begun to make digital tabletops a feasible technology for real-world markets. Innovations in operating systems (e.g., Microsoft 7), development environments (e.g., Windows Presentation Foundation), and input technologies (e.g., FTIR and TouchCo “multitouch” technologies) are enabling a move beyond proof-of-concept tabletop systems. We’re also well beyond simple demonstrations of new interface metaphors and interaction techniques for manipulating and sharing digital photos.

For speaker bio see UX blog

Feel free to invite co-workers or friends to attend, by forwarding this invite.

Thank you for your interest and I hope you can make it to this exciting session!

No need to register if you cannot make it (hope to see you next month).

Wanda

Information about group
Partnership between Communitech and IxDA
Meetings will generally alternate month to month from 3rd Tuesday and 3rd Thursday - however if you are on the distribution list you will receive notification click here to be added to distribution list
Practicing designers, Product Managers, and Marketing professionals share design theories and thinking to improve and promote the user experience of products and services to delight the customer who will ultimately use them.  Guest speakers lead off the session followed by Q and A, or roundtable discussion.

Volunteer group champions:
Robert Barlow-Busch, Primal Fusion Twitter @becubed
Mark Connolly, Twitter @primalmark

Communitech group representative:
Karen Brown, Manager, Venture Services Group

If you have any questions, feel free to contact Wanda Eby directly.

Resources (past slide presentations or links of interest)
located on group blog http://uxgroup.wordpress.com/

March 31st - Communitech's Titan Learning Series: Blue Ocean Strategy with Richard Gilbert

This Half Day Workshop is divided into two parts: 1) Participants will be introduced to the Blue Ocean Strategy and its underlying strategic logic, Value Innovation: the simultaneous pursuit of differentiation and low costs. Participants will begin to assess how "Blue Ocean" ready their company is. 2) Introduction to the Blue Ocean "tool box" used to reconstruct market boundaries.