HFWeb 2000 Conference Tutorials Announced
Cory Knobel, CKnobel@optavia.com
Conference Date: June 19, 2000
Tutorial Dates: June 20 and 21, 2000
Location: University of Texas Thompson Conference Center, Austin, TX, USA
Conference Information: http://www.tri.sbc.com/hfweb
Tutorial Information: http://www.optavia.com/events/aus0600.htm
HFWeb is a not-for-profit conference that is dedicated to the open discussion of research, methods, and innovations related to the user experience on the web. HFWeb is a one day event that people can attend free of charge. The costs are covered by the annual host. This year, for the first time, there will be post conference usability tutorials that people can choose to attend for a nominal fee.
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Contact:
Cory Knobel
608.260.9000, ext. 305
CKnobel@optavia.com
HFWeb 2000 Conference Tutorials Announced HFWeb and Optavia Corporation Offering Tutorials in Austin, TX on June 20 and 21, 2000
MADISON, WI (April 12, 2000) - Optavia Corporation today announced the tutorial program for the Sixth Conference on Human Factors and the Web to be held in Austin, TX on June 19-21, 2000.
The tutorials will be held on June 20 and 21, 2000, at the University of Texas Thompson Conference Center in Austin, TX. Full-day or half-day tutorials offered are: Web Accessibility: More People, More Situations. More Business, Shawn Lawton Henry, Optavia Corporation, and Wendy Chisholm, W3C WAI; Designing Usable E-Commerce Sites, Pawan Vora, NexTag.com; Designing Global Web Sites: Internationalization and Localization Issues; Nuray Aykin, AT&T Labs; and Information Architecture and Usability Engineering, Keith Instone, Argus Associates, Inc.
For more information about the tutorials and to register online, see www.optavia.com/events/aus0600.htm
"It has always been difficult for people to travel long distances for this one day event. These tutorials should make the conference more cost effective for people worldwide who want to attend this leading edge gathering of usability experts. " said Judy Cantor, Editor of Internetworking (www.sandia.gov/itg/internetworking/), a publication of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) Internet Technical Group (ITG).
The HFWeb 2000 conference will be held on Monday, June 19, 2000 in the LBJ Auditorium at the University of Texas Thompson Conference Center in Austin, TX. "The conference is dedicated to the open discussion of research, methods, and innovations related to the user experience on the web," said Cantor. More information is available at www.tri.sbc.com/hfweb Optavia Corporation (www.optavia.com) serves the e-commerce industry with usability research and consulting for business-to-business, business-to-consumer, and intra-company commerce nationwide. The company’s customer-centered usability evaluation and web design services benefit clients by improving customer interactions online. Using real people and real tasks, Optavia Corporation makes technology comfortable.
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